NET Power (NPWR) vs. Its Rivals Financial Comparison

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

Risk and Volatility

NET Power has a beta of 0.47, indicating that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NET Power’s rivals have a beta of 1.54, indicating that their average stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings for NET Power and its rivals, as provided 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	599	840	35	2.52

NET Power currently 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 research analysts plainly believe NET Power is more favorable than its rivals.

Valuation & Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
NET Power	$250,000.00	-$77.23 million	-3.20
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%

Insider & 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 endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

NET Power beats its rivals on 9 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.