Reviewing SKYX Platforms (NASDAQ:SKYX) and Fluence Energy (NASDAQ:FLNC)

SKYX Platforms (NASDAQ:SKYX) and Fluence Energy (NASDAQ:FLNC) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.

Volatility and Risk

SKYX Platforms has a beta of -3645.11, suggesting that its share price is 364,611% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fluence Energy has a beta of 2.77, suggesting that its share price is 177% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

11.8% of SKYX Platforms shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.2% of Fluence Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 24.2% of SKYX Platforms shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Fluence Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares SKYX Platforms and Fluence Energy”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
SKYX Platforms	$96.20 million	1.21	-$33.42 million	($0.27)	-3.11
Fluence Energy	$2.63 billion	0.39	-$48.31 million	($0.61)	-9.16

SKYX Platforms has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Fluence Energy. Fluence Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SKYX Platforms, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares SKYX Platforms and Fluence Energy’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
SKYX Platforms	-34.34%	N/A	-49.28%
Fluence Energy	-3.13%	-16.79%	-3.37%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for SKYX Platforms and Fluence Energy, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
SKYX Platforms	1	0	2	1	2.75
Fluence Energy	7	14	4	0	1.88

SKYX Platforms presently has a consensus price target of $4.50, suggesting a potential upside of 435.59%. Fluence Energy has a consensus price target of $11.04, suggesting a potential upside of 97.54%. Given SKYX Platforms’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe SKYX Platforms is more favorable than Fluence Energy.

Summary

SKYX Platforms beats Fluence Energy on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About SKYX Platforms

SKYX Platforms Corp. provides a series of safe-smart platform technologies. The company’s first and second-generation technologies enable light fixtures, ceiling fans, and other electrically wired products to be installed and plugged into a ceiling’s electrical outlet box. It also provides universal power-plugs and receptacle products. In addition, it offers smart products, such as SkyHome App; sky smart universal power-plug and receptacle; sky-smart plug and play ceiling fans and lightings; and all-in-one smart sky platform. The company was formerly known as SQL Technologies Corp. and changed its name to SKYX Platforms Corp. in June 2022. SKYX Platforms Corp. was incorporated in 2004 and is based in Pompano Beach, Florida.

About Fluence Energy

Fluence Energy, Inc., through its subsidiaries, offers energy storage products and solution, services, and artificial intelligence enabled software-as-a-service products for renewables and storage applications in the Americas, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company sells energy storage products with integrated hardware, software, and digital intelligence. Its energy storage products include Gridstack Pro, a large-scale front-of-the-meter application; Gridstack, a front-of-the-meter application; Sunstack, a DC-coupled energy storage product for DC-coupled solar + storage projects; Edgestack, for smaller-scale commercial and industrial use cases; and Ultrastack, for critical system requirements of distribution and transmission networks. The company also provides engineering and delivery services to support the deployment of its storage products; operational and maintenance services; and digital applications. It serves independent power producers, developer, utilities, and other generators. Fluence Energy, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. Fluence Energy, Inc. is a joint venture of Siemens Aktiengesellschaft and The AES Corporation.