Reviewing Marvell Technology (NASDAQ:MRVL) & Maxeon Solar Technologies (NASDAQ:MAXN)

Maxeon Solar Technologies (NASDAQ:MAXN) and Marvell Technology (NASDAQ:MRVL) are both energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, profitability and risk.

Volatility and Risk

Maxeon Solar Technologies has a beta of 1.43, indicating that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marvell Technology has a beta of 1.83, indicating that its share price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Maxeon Solar Technologies and Marvell Technology’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Maxeon Solar Technologies	-94.16%	-1,598.11%	-85.09%
Marvell Technology	-27.49%	4.59%	3.20%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

47.7% of Maxeon Solar Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.5% of Marvell Technology shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Maxeon Solar Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Marvell Technology shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Maxeon Solar Technologies and Marvell Technology, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Maxeon Solar Technologies	4	1	0	0	1.20
Marvell Technology	0	5	21	1	2.85

Maxeon Solar Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $8,751.00, indicating a potential upside of 300,621.65%. Marvell Technology has a consensus price target of $104.52, indicating a potential upside of 72.22%. Given Maxeon Solar Technologies’ higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Maxeon Solar Technologies is more favorable than Marvell Technology.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Maxeon Solar Technologies and Marvell Technology”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Maxeon Solar Technologies	$509.05 million	0.00	-$275.83 million	($163.07)	-0.02
Marvell Technology	$5.77 billion	9.09	-$933.40 million	($1.02)	-59.50

Maxeon Solar Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Marvell Technology. Marvell Technology 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

Marvell Technology beats Maxeon Solar Technologies on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Maxeon Solar Technologies

Maxeon Solar Technologies, Ltd. designs, manufactures, markets, and sells solar panels and related solar system components worldwide. The company provides interdigitated back contact and shingled solar cells and panels under the SunPower brand. It offers its products to dealers, project developers, system integrators, distributors, resellers, and residential and small-scale commercial customers. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is headquartered in Singapore.

About Marvell Technology

Marvell Technology, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, spanning the data center core to network edge. The company develops and scales complex System-on-a-Chip architectures, integrating analog, mixed-signal, and digital signal processing functionality. It offers a portfolio of Ethernet solutions, including controllers, network adapters, physical transceivers, and switches; single or multiple core processors; and custom application specific integrated circuits. The company also provides electro-optical products, including pulse amplitude modulations, coherent digital signal processors, laser drivers, trans-impedance amplifiers, silicon photonics, and data center interconnect solutions; fibre channel products comprising host bus adapters and controllers; storage controllers for hard disk drives and solid-state-drives; and host system interfaces, including serial attached SCSI, serial advanced technology attachment, peripheral component interconnect express, non-volatile memory express (NVMe), and NVMe over fabrics. It has operations in the United States, Argentina, China, India, Israel, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam. Marvell Technology, Inc. was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.