Comparing TOYO (NASDAQ:TOYO) & PowerBank (NASDAQ:SUUN)

TOYO (NASDAQ:TOYO) and PowerBank (NASDAQ:SUUN) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for TOYO and PowerBank, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
TOYO	0	0	0	0	0.00
PowerBank	0	0	3	1	3.25

PowerBank has a consensus price target of $5.00, suggesting a potential upside of 170.27%. Given PowerBank’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe PowerBank is more favorable than TOYO.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

84.6% of TOYO shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of TOYO shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares TOYO and PowerBank’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
TOYO	N/A	N/A	N/A
PowerBank	-40.54%	-24.80%	-8.92%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares TOYO and PowerBank”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
TOYO	$176.96 million	1.53	$40.61 million	N/A	N/A
PowerBank	$43.08 million	1.53	-$2.56 million	($0.45)	-4.11

TOYO has higher revenue and earnings than PowerBank.

Volatility and Risk

TOYO has a beta of 0.73, suggesting that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PowerBank has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

TOYO beats PowerBank on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About TOYO

TOYO Co. Ltd. engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of solar cells and modules. It is involved in integrating the upstream production of wafer and silicon, midstream production of solar cell, downstream production of photovoltaic (PV) modules, and potentially other stages of the solar power supply chain. The company was founded on November 8, 2022 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

About PowerBank

SolarBank Corporation operates as an independent renewable and clean energy project developer and asset operator in Canada and the United States. The company engages in the site origination, development, financing, engineering, procurement, construction, operation, maintenance, and asset management of solar photovoltaic power generation projects. It offers solar energy solutions in the areas of behind-the-meter solar power plants, electricity grid connected community solar gardens, and utility scale solar farms. The company was formerly known as Abundant Solar Energy Inc. and changed its name to SolarBank Corporation in October 2022. SolarBank Corporation was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.