NET Power (NPWR) vs. The Competition Head-To-Head Review

NET Power (NYSE:NPWR) is one of 21 publicly-traded companies in the “Electrical industrial apparatus” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare NET Power to related businesses based on the strength of its earnings, valuation, risk, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for NET Power and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
NET Power	0	1	1	1	3.00
NET Power Competitors	92	598	840	35	2.52

NET Power presently has a consensus price target of $4.50, indicating a potential upside of 91.08%. As a group, “Electrical industrial apparatus” companies have a potential upside of 20.76%. Given NET Power’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe NET Power is more favorable than its peers.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

53.6% of NET Power shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.1% of shares of all “Electrical industrial apparatus” companies are owned by institutional investors. 2.7% of NET Power shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 10.7% of shares of all “Electrical industrial apparatus” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares NET Power and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
NET Power	$250,000.00	-$77.23 million	-3.51
NET Power Competitors	$534.72 million	-$136.01 million	-1.74

NET Power’s peers have higher revenue, but lower earnings than NET Power. NET 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 & Volatility

NET Power has a beta of 0.07, suggesting that its stock price is 93% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NET Power’s peers have a beta of 1.46, suggesting that their average stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
NET Power	N/A	6.23%	1.91%
NET Power Competitors	-211.08%	-93.75%	-17.25%

Summary

NET Power beats its peers on 8 of the 13 factors compared.

NET Power Company Profile

NET Power Inc. operates as a clean energy technology company. The company invents, develops, and licenses clean power generation technology. NET Power Inc. was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.