NuScale Power (SMR) & The Competition Head-To-Head Review

NuScale Power (NYSE:SMR) is one of 218 public companies in the “Electrical Equipment” industry, but how does it compare to its peers? We will compare NuScale Power to similar businesses based on the strength of its risk, valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings and institutional ownership.

Profitability

This table compares NuScale Power and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
NuScale Power	-3,888.70%	-35.59%	-30.27%
NuScale Power Competitors	-218.47%	-87.34%	-8.78%

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for NuScale Power and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
NuScale Power	3	9	4	1	2.18
NuScale Power Competitors	2161	5000	6943	417	2.39

NuScale Power presently has a consensus price target of $13.50, indicating a potential upside of 39.75%. As a group, “Electrical Equipment” companies have a potential upside of 24.28%. Given NuScale Power’s higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe NuScale Power is more favorable than its peers.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

78.4% of NuScale Power shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.3% of shares of all “Electrical Equipment” companies are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of NuScale Power shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.3% of shares of all “Electrical Equipment” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares NuScale Power and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
NuScale Power	$31.48 million	-$355.79 million	-3.31
NuScale Power Competitors	$2.33 billion	$137.32 million	21.32

NuScale Power’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than NuScale Power. NuScale Power is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Risk and Volatility

NuScale Power has a beta of 2.3, indicating that its share price is 130% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NuScale Power’s peers have a beta of -19.47, indicating that their average share price is 2,047% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

NuScale Power peers beat NuScale Power on 8 of the 13 factors compared.

About NuScale Power

NuScale Power Corporation engages in the development and sale of modular light water reactor nuclear power plants to supply energy for electrical generation, district heating, desalination, hydrogen production, and other process heat applications. It offers NuScale Power Module (NPM), a water reactor that can generate 77 megawatts of electricity (MWe); and VOYGR power plant designs for three facility sizes that are capable of housing from one to four and six or twelve NPMs. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. NuScale Power Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Fluor Enterprises, Inc.