NET Power (NPWR) vs. The Competition Head to Head Survey

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

Risk and Volatility

NET Power has a beta of 0.47, suggesting that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NET Power’s rivals have a beta of 1.43, suggesting that their average stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings for NET Power and its rivals, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
NET Power	0	1	1	1	3.00
NET Power Competitors	92	599	840	35	2.52

NET Power presently has a consensus target price of $4.50, indicating a potential upside of 109.79%. As a group, “Electrical industrial apparatus” companies have a potential upside of 36.56%. Given NET Power’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe NET Power is more favorable than its rivals.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares NET Power and its rivals revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
NET Power	$250,000.00	-$77.23 million	-3.20
NET Power Competitors	$534.72 million	-$136.01 million	-3.42

NET Power’s rivals have higher revenue, but lower earnings than NET Power. NET Power is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares NET Power and its rivals’ 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%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

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

Summary

NET Power beats its rivals on 9 of the 13 factors compared.

About NET Power

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.