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OPTT vs. PCYO, OPAL, RGCO, SLNG, SUUN, CGBS, SPRU, WAVE, NOVA, and CETY

Should you be buying Ocean Power Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ocean Power Technologies include Pure Cycle (PCYO), OPAL Fuels (OPAL), RGC Resources (RGCO), Stabilis Solutions (SLNG), SolarBank (SUUN), Crown LNG (CGBS), Spruce Power (SPRU), Eco Wave Power Global AB (publ) (WAVE), Sunnova Energy International (NOVA), and Clean Energy Technologies (CETY). These companies are all part of the "utilities" industry.

Ocean Power Technologies vs.

Ocean Power Technologies (NASDAQ:OPTT) and Pure Cycle (NASDAQ:PCYO) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and community ranking.

Ocean Power Technologies received 27 more outperform votes than Pure Cycle when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.59% of users gave Ocean Power Technologies an outperform vote while only 67.66% of users gave Pure Cycle an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Ocean Power TechnologiesOutperform Votes
209
73.59%
Underperform Votes
75
26.41%
Pure CycleOutperform Votes
182
67.66%
Underperform Votes
87
32.34%

11.9% of Ocean Power Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.4% of Pure Cycle shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Ocean Power Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.2% of Pure Cycle shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Pure Cycle has a net margin of 46.32% compared to Ocean Power Technologies' net margin of -304.91%. Pure Cycle's return on equity of 10.54% beat Ocean Power Technologies' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Ocean Power Technologies-304.91% -97.03% -72.36%
Pure Cycle 46.32%10.54%9.36%

In the previous week, Pure Cycle had 3 more articles in the media than Ocean Power Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Pure Cycle and 0 mentions for Ocean Power Technologies. Ocean Power Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Pure Cycle's score of 0.77 indicating that Ocean Power Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Ocean Power Technologies Positive
Pure Cycle Positive

Ocean Power Technologies has a beta of 2.51, meaning that its stock price is 151% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pure Cycle has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Pure Cycle has higher revenue and earnings than Ocean Power Technologies. Ocean Power Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pure Cycle, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Ocean Power Technologies$6.12M12.14-$27.48M-$0.25-1.73
Pure Cycle$29.91M8.10$11.61M$0.5817.34

Summary

Pure Cycle beats Ocean Power Technologies on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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OPTT vs. The Competition

MetricOcean Power TechnologiesElectric services IndustryEnergy SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$74.27M$13.81B$7.12B$7.80B
Dividend YieldN/A4.88%10.99%4.31%
P/E Ratio-1.3518.8948.7418.39
Price / Sales12.1416.7723,119.37101.29
Price / CashN/A10.0735.4434.62
Price / Book1.352.163.494.18
Net Income-$27.48M$690.28M$4.28B$247.71M
7 Day Performance7.92%2.14%1.64%6.45%
1 Month Performance-20.32%-0.13%-5.83%-3.14%
1 Year Performance129.02%440.64%-1.56%5.40%

Ocean Power Technologies Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
OPTT
Ocean Power Technologies
N/A$0.43
+1.2%
N/A+128.6%$74.27M$6.12M-1.3550Positive News
Gap Up
PCYO
Pure Cycle
0.8174 of 5 stars
$10.16
+2.0%
N/A+7.0%$244.61M$29.91M18.4740
OPAL
OPAL Fuels
2.484 of 5 stars
$1.35
-2.9%
$4.75
+251.9%
-68.0%$233.32M$299.97M7.50270News Coverage
RGCO
RGC Resources
3.3129 of 5 stars
$21.06
-0.1%
N/A+2.7%$216.86M$87.51M18.00100Upcoming Earnings
SLNG
Stabilis Solutions
3.1163 of 5 stars
$4.32
-0.9%
$12.00
+177.8%
+38.4%$80.34M$73.29M20.57250News Coverage
Positive News
SUUN
SolarBank
2.3603 of 5 stars
$2.18
-5.2%
$6.00
+175.2%
-62.1%$70.50M$52.15M-9.9115Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
CGBS
Crown LNG
N/A$0.12
-16.8%
N/AN/A$56.79MN/A-0.145
SPRU
Spruce Power
0.1114 of 5 stars
$2.02
-2.4%
N/A-54.8%$36.52M$82.11M-0.40180High Trading Volume
WAVE
Eco Wave Power Global AB (publ)
1.9456 of 5 stars
$6.05
-1.5%
$14.50
+139.7%
+83.8%$33.57M$168,000.00-14.0710News Coverage
NOVA
Sunnova Energy International
3.7235 of 5 stars
$0.18
+2.2%
$5.37
+2,893.1%
-94.7%$22.44M$839.92M-0.051,170Upcoming Earnings
Gap Down
CETY
Clean Energy Technologies
0.5289 of 5 stars
$0.38
-2.6%
N/A-73.3%$18.06M$2.42M-2.3810Gap Up

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This page (NASDAQ:OPTT) was last updated on 4/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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