Reviewing NuScale Power (SMR) and Its Rivals

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for NuScale Power and its competitors, 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	2156	4988	6932	417	2.39

NuScale Power presently has a consensus price target of $13.50, indicating a potential upside of 45.01%. As a group, “Electrical Equipment” companies have a potential upside of 27.57%. Given NuScale Power’s higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe NuScale Power is more favorable than its competitors.

Risk & Volatility

NuScale Power has a beta of 2.26, indicating that its share price is 126% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NuScale Power’s competitors have a beta of -19.63, indicating that their average share price is 2,063% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares NuScale Power and its competitors’ 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	-218.76%	-85.01%	-8.81%

Valuation and Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
NuScale Power	$31.48 million	-$355.79 million	-3.19
NuScale Power Competitors	$2.32 billion	$137.32 million	21.40

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

Insider & Institutional Ownership

78.4% of NuScale Power shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.2% of shares of all “Electrical Equipment” companies are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of NuScale Power shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.0% of shares of all “Electrical Equipment” companies are held by company 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.

Summary

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

NuScale Power Company Profile

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.