OPAL vs. CEPU, CTRI, ENLT, EDN, KEN, NNE, NEP, AMPS, XIFR, and NGL
Should you be buying OPAL Fuels stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of OPAL Fuels include Central Puerto (CEPU), Centuri (CTRI), Enlight Renewable Energy (ENLT), Empresa Distribuidora y Comercializadora Norte Sociedad Anónima (EDN), Kenon (KEN), Nano Nuclear Energy (NNE), Nextera Energy Partners (NEP), Altus Power (AMPS), XPLR Infrastructure (XIFR), and NGL Energy Partners (NGL). These companies are all part of the "utilities" industry.
OPAL Fuels vs.
OPAL Fuels (NASDAQ:OPAL) and Central Puerto (NYSE:CEPU) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, risk, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Central Puerto received 103 more outperform votes than OPAL Fuels when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.38% of users gave OPAL Fuels an outperform vote while only 56.34% of users gave Central Puerto an outperform vote.
12.2% of OPAL Fuels shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.0% of Central Puerto shares are owned by institutional investors. 84.4% of OPAL Fuels shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Central Puerto shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Central Puerto has a net margin of 56.44% compared to OPAL Fuels' net margin of 3.30%. Central Puerto's return on equity of 22.76% beat OPAL Fuels' return on equity.
OPAL Fuels presently has a consensus price target of $6.78, indicating a potential upside of 120.85%. Central Puerto has a consensus price target of $12.00, indicating a potential downside of 9.23%. Given OPAL Fuels' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe OPAL Fuels is more favorable than Central Puerto.
OPAL Fuels has a beta of 0.53, suggesting that its stock price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Central Puerto has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Central Puerto had 2 more articles in the media than OPAL Fuels. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Central Puerto and 0 mentions for OPAL Fuels. Central Puerto's average media sentiment score of 1.37 beat OPAL Fuels' score of 0.00 indicating that Central Puerto is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Central Puerto has higher revenue and earnings than OPAL Fuels. Central Puerto is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than OPAL Fuels, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Central Puerto beats OPAL Fuels on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:OPAL) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
