SPRU vs. OPTT, SLNG, SUUN, VVPR, WAVE, CGBS, NOVA, CETY, ALCE, and CDZIP
Should you be buying Spruce Power stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Spruce Power include Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT), Stabilis Solutions (SLNG), SolarBank (SUUN), Vivopower International (VVPR), Eco Wave Power Global AB (publ) (WAVE), Crown LNG (CGBS), Sunnova Energy International (NOVA), Clean Energy Technologies (CETY), Alternus Clean Energy (ALCE), and Cadiz (CDZIP). These companies are all part of the "utilities" industry.
Spruce Power vs. Its Competitors
Spruce Power (NYSE:SPRU) and Ocean Power Technologies (NASDAQ:OPTT) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, risk, valuation and media sentiment.
Ocean Power Technologies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Spruce Power. Ocean Power Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Spruce Power, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Spruce Power has a beta of 1.47, meaning that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ocean Power Technologies has a beta of 2.62, meaning that its share price is 162% more volatile than the S&P 500.
20.8% of Spruce Power shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.9% of Ocean Power Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 12.7% of Spruce Power shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Ocean Power Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Ocean Power Technologies had 3 more articles in the media than Spruce Power. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Ocean Power Technologies and 0 mentions for Spruce Power. Ocean Power Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat Spruce Power's score of 0.00 indicating that Ocean Power Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Spruce Power has a net margin of -94.85% compared to Ocean Power Technologies' net margin of -304.91%. Spruce Power's return on equity of -34.62% beat Ocean Power Technologies' return on equity.
Summary
Spruce Power beats Ocean Power Technologies on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NYSE:SPRU) was last updated on 7/17/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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