Analyzing Visteon (NASDAQ:VC) and Nuvve (NASDAQ:NVVE)

Nuvve (NASDAQ:NVVE) and Visteon (NASDAQ:VC) are both auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk and analyst recommendations.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

19.0% of Nuvve shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.7% of Visteon shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.5% of Nuvve shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Visteon shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for Nuvve and Visteon, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Nuvve	1	0	0	0	1.00
Visteon	0	6	8	0	2.57

Visteon has a consensus target price of $122.25, indicating a potential upside of 33.78%. Given Visteon’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Visteon is more favorable than Nuvve.

Risk & Volatility

Nuvve has a beta of 1.98, indicating that its stock price is 98% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Visteon has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Nuvve and Visteon’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Nuvve	-641.21%	N/A	-174.96%
Visteon	6.93%	17.94%	8.54%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Nuvve and Visteon”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Nuvve	$4.79 million	0.14	-$17.40 million	($255.98)	0.00
Visteon	$3.77 billion	0.65	$201.00 million	$9.43	9.69

Visteon has higher revenue and earnings than Nuvve. Nuvve is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Visteon, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Visteon beats Nuvve on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Nuvve

Nuvve Holding Corp., a green energy technology company, provides commercial vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology platform in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Denmark. The company offers Grid Integrated Vehicle platform, which enables electric vehicle (EV) batteries to store and resell unused energy back to the local electric grid and provide other grid services, as well as allows EV owners to meet the energy demands of individual vehicles and entire fleets. Its V2G technology also links EV batteries into a virtual power plant that sells excess power to utility companies or utilizes saved power to reduce building energy peak consumption. In addition, the company offers networked charging stations, infrastructure, software, professional services, support, monitoring, and parts and labor warranties required to run electric vehicle fleets. It serves its products to owners/operators of light duty fleets, heavy duty fleets, automotive manufacturers, charge point operators, and strategic partners. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

About Visteon

Visteon Corporation, an automotive technology company, designs, manufactures, and sells automotive electronics and connected car solutions for vehicle manufacturers worldwide. The company provides instrument clusters, including analog gauge clusters for 2-D and 3-D display-based devices; information displays that integrate a range of user interface technologies and graphics management capabilities, such as active privacy, TrueColor enhancement, local dimming, cameras, optics, haptic feedback, and light effects; and infotainment and connected car solutions, including scalable Android infotainment for seamless connectivity, as well as onboard artificial intelligence-based voice assistants with natural language understanding. It offers wired and wireless battery management systems; power electronics units; and telematics control units to enable secure connected car services, software updates, and data. In addition, the company provides SmartCore, an automotive-grade, integrated domain controller; SmartCore Runtime, a middleware enabling communication between domains and apps to be shown on any display; SmartCore Studio, a PC-based configuration tool to generate hypervisor configurations; and body domain modules, which integrate various functions, such as central gateway, body controls, comfort, and vehicle access solutions, into one device. Visteon Corporation was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in Van Buren, Michigan.