Penguin Solutions (NASDAQ:PENG) vs. Complete Solaria (NASDAQ:CSLR) Financial Review

Complete Solaria (NASDAQ:CSLR) and Penguin Solutions (NASDAQ:PENG) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability and earnings.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Complete Solaria and Penguin Solutions, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Complete Solaria	0	1	1	0	2.50
Penguin Solutions	0	1	6	2	3.11

Complete Solaria presently has a consensus price target of $6.00, suggesting a potential upside of 207.69%. Penguin Solutions has a consensus price target of $24.94, suggesting a potential upside of 57.04%. Given Complete Solaria’s higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Complete Solaria is more favorable than Penguin Solutions.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Complete Solaria and Penguin Solutions”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Complete Solaria	$40.80 million	3.53	-$269.55 million	N/A	N/A
Penguin Solutions	$1.32 billion	0.65	-$52.47 million	($0.17)	-93.41

Penguin Solutions has higher revenue and earnings than Complete Solaria.

Profitability

This table compares Complete Solaria and Penguin Solutions’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Complete Solaria	-321.32%	N/A	-136.87%
Penguin Solutions	-2.21%	11.70%	3.12%

Volatility and Risk

Complete Solaria has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Penguin Solutions has a beta of 1.83, meaning that its share price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

30.3% of Complete Solaria shares are held by institutional investors. 44.6% of Complete Solaria shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Penguin Solutions shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Penguin Solutions beats Complete Solaria on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Complete Solaria

Complete Solaria, Inc. provides custom solar solutions in the United States. The company offers solar systems to homeowners and small to medium-sized commercial customers. It also provides HelioQuoteTM software system, a platform for residential solar designs, proposals, and engineering services. In addition, the company installs solar systems, as well as provides financing solutions. It offers its products and services through third party sales partners. The company is headquartered in Fremont, California.

About Penguin Solutions

Penguin Solutions, Inc. engages in the designing and development of enterprise solutions worldwide. It operates through three segments: Advanced Computing, Integrated Memory, and Optimized LED. It offers dynamic random access memory modules, solid-state and flash storage, and other advanced integrated memory solutions for networking and telecom, data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning applications; and supply chain services, including procurement, logistics, inventory management, temporary warehousing, programming, kitting, and packaging services. The company also provides Penguin Computing that focus on technical computing for core and cloud environments through high-performance computing and AI solutions; and Penguin Edge, an edge computing solution for embedded and wireless applications, such as high-performance products for government, health care, manufacturing, and telecommunications applications. In addition, it offers Stratus, which provides simplified, protected, and autonomous fault tolerant computing solutions in the data center and at the Edge through hardware and software services; and solutions to education, energy, financial services, government, hyperscale, and manufacturing markets. Further, the company provides LED chip products comprising blue and green LED chips based on gallium nitride, and related materials under Cree LED brand; and surface mount devices under the Cree LED XLamp and J Series brands. It sells its products directly to original equipment manufacturers, enterprise, government and other end customers through direct sales force, e-commerce, customer service representatives, on-site field application engineers, independent sales representatives, distributors, integrators, and resellers. The company was formerly known as SMART Global Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Penguin Solutions, Inc. in October 2024. Penguin Solutions, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is based in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands.