Reviewing HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (NYSE:HASI) & Tron (NASDAQ:TRON)

Tron (NASDAQ:TRON) and HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (NYSE:HASI) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and earnings.

Volatility and Risk

Tron has a beta of 8.69, meaning that its stock price is 769% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital has a beta of 1.42, meaning that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Tron and HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Tron	1	0	0	0	1.00
HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital	0	3	10	0	2.77

HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital has a consensus price target of $47.50, suggesting a potential upside of 31.42%. Given HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital is more favorable than Tron.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Tron and HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Tron	$4.74 million	125.10	-$16.81 million	($0.11)	-11.36
HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital	$400.50 million	11.60	$184.55 million	$0.53	68.20

HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Tron. Tron is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares Tron and HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Tron	135.58%	-5.60%	-5.53%
HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital	18.61%	13.62%	4.28%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

28.0% of Tron shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.1% of HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 86.2% of Tron shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital beats Tron on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Tron

SRM Entertainment, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells toys and souvenirs to theme parks. It sells its products through amusement parks, entertainment venues, and theme hotels in the United States, China, Japan, and internationally. The company was incorporated in 2022 and is based in Jupiter, Florida.

About HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital

HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the investment of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and sustainable infrastructure markets in the United States. The company’s portfolio includes equity investments, commercial and government receivables, real estate, and debt securities. It invests in climate solutions, including Behind-the-Meter, which distributes energy projects that reduce energy usage or cost through heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems, as well as lighting, energy controls, roofs, windows, building shells, and/or combined heat and power systems; Grid-Connected, a renewable energy projects that deploy cleaner energy sources, such as solar, solar-plus-storage, and wind to generate power production; and Fuels, Transport, and Nature, a range of real assets spanning high-emitting economic sectors other than the power grid such as transportation and fuels comprising renewable natural gas plants, transportation fleet enhancements, ecological restoration, and other projects. HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital, Inc. was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Annapolis, Maryland.