Bloom Energy (NYSE:BE – Get Free Report) and Greenfire Resources (NYSE:GFR – Get Free Report) are both energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation and profitability.
Profitability
This table compares Bloom Energy and Greenfire Resources’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Bloom Energy | -4.37% | 8.38% | 2.05% |
| Greenfire Resources | 20.20% | 15.64% | 10.47% |
Institutional and Insider Ownership
77.0% of Bloom Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.9% of Greenfire Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.6% of Bloom Energy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 20.0% of Greenfire Resources shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Risk & Volatility
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Bloom Energy and Greenfire Resources, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Bloom Energy | 3 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 2.38 |
| Greenfire Resources | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.50 |
Bloom Energy presently has a consensus price target of $128.29, indicating a potential downside of 17.26%. Given Bloom Energy’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Bloom Energy is more favorable than Greenfire Resources.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Bloom Energy and Greenfire Resources”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Bloom Energy | $2.02 billion | 18.12 | -$88.43 million | ($0.38) | -408.05 |
| Greenfire Resources | $600.67 million | 0.69 | $88.61 million | $1.35 | 4.44 |
Greenfire Resources has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Bloom Energy. Bloom Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Greenfire Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Greenfire Resources beats Bloom Energy on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Bloom Energy
Bloom Energy Corporation designs, manufactures, sells, and installs solid-oxide fuel cell systems for on-site power generation in the United States and internationally. The company offers Bloom Energy Server, a solid oxide technology that converts fuel, such as natural gas, biogas, hydrogen, or a blend of these fuels into electricity through an electrochemical process without combustion. It sells its products through direct and indirect sales channels to utilities, data centers, agriculture, retail, hospitals, higher education, biotech, and manufacturing industries. The company was formerly known as Ion America Corp. and changed its name to Bloom Energy Corporation in 2006. Bloom Energy Corporation was incorporated in 2001 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
About Greenfire Resources
Greenfire Resources Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development, exploration, and operation of oil and gas properties in the Athabasca oil sands region of Alberta. The company operates the Tier-1 oil sands assets located in Western Canada. It utilizes steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) extraction technology, a situ thermal oil recovery process to recover diluted and non- diluted bitumen. The company is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.
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