SPWR vs. MAXN, SOL, CSIQ, JKS, SHLS, GFR, SOI, SKE, ALCC, and SMLP
Should you be buying SunPower stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SunPower include Maxeon Solar Technologies (MAXN), Emeren Group (SOL), Canadian Solar (CSIQ), JinkoSolar (JKS), Shoals Technologies Group (SHLS), Greenfire Resources (GFR), Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure (SOI), Skeena Resources (SKE), AltC Acquisition (ALCC), and Summit Midstream Partners (SMLP). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
SunPower (NASDAQ:SPWR) and Maxeon Solar Technologies (NASDAQ:MAXN) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, risk and community ranking.
SunPower currently has a consensus target price of $4.72, suggesting a potential upside of 105.38%. Maxeon Solar Technologies has a consensus target price of $6.59, suggesting a potential upside of 203.86%. Given Maxeon Solar Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Maxeon Solar Technologies is more favorable than SunPower.
SunPower received 602 more outperform votes than Maxeon Solar Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.19% of users gave SunPower an outperform vote while only 39.08% of users gave Maxeon Solar Technologies an outperform vote.
SunPower has a beta of 1.8, indicating that its share price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Maxeon Solar Technologies has a beta of 1.62, indicating that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, SunPower and SunPower both had 4 articles in the media. SunPower's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Maxeon Solar Technologies' score of 0.48 indicating that SunPower is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Maxeon Solar Technologies has a net margin of -13.56% compared to SunPower's net margin of -14.15%. SunPower's return on equity of -40.95% beat Maxeon Solar Technologies' return on equity.
47.4% of SunPower shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.7% of Maxeon Solar Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of SunPower shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Maxeon Solar Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
SunPower has higher revenue and earnings than Maxeon Solar Technologies. SunPower is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Maxeon Solar Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
SunPower beats Maxeon Solar Technologies on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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