SKYX Platforms (NASDAQ:SKYX – Get Free Report) and Fluence Energy (NASDAQ:FLNC – Get Free Report) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk and analyst recommendations.
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 company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Fluence Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Risk & Volatility
SKYX Platforms has a beta of -3645.11, suggesting that its stock price is 364,611% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fluence Energy has a beta of 2.77, suggesting that its stock price is 177% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for SKYX Platforms and Fluence Energy, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| 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 currently has a consensus target price of $4.50, indicating a potential upside of 478.03%. Fluence Energy has a consensus target price of $10.76, indicating a potential upside of 88.05%. Given SKYX Platforms’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe SKYX Platforms is more favorable than Fluence Energy.
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% |
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares SKYX Platforms and Fluence Energy”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| SKYX Platforms | $92.01 million | 1.17 | -$33.42 million | ($0.27) | -2.88 |
| Fluence Energy | $2.26 billion | 0.47 | -$48.31 million | ($0.61) | -9.38 |
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.
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.
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