Contrasting Companhia Paranaense de Energia (NYSE:ELPC) & Heliogen (NYSE:HLGN)

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Heliogen and Companhia Paranaense de Energia”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Heliogen	$3.92 million	3.92	-$129.60 million	$6.39	0.39
Companhia Paranaense de Energia	$23.13 billion	0.37	$749.00 million	$0.70	11.44

Companhia Paranaense de Energia has higher revenue and earnings than Heliogen. Heliogen is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Companhia Paranaense de Energia, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Risk & Volatility

Heliogen has a beta of 2.66, suggesting that its stock price is 166% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Companhia Paranaense de Energia has a beta of -0.43, suggesting that its stock price is 143% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Heliogen and Companhia Paranaense de Energia’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Heliogen	N/A	N/A	-147.90%
Companhia Paranaense de Energia	N/A	N/A	N/A

Institutional and Insider Ownership

27.6% of Heliogen shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.8% of Heliogen shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Heliogen beats Companhia Paranaense de Energia on 5 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Heliogen

Heliogen, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops and commercializes concentrated solar energy in the United States. It is developing a modular, AI-enabled, concentrated solar energy plant that will use an array of mirrors to reflect sunlight and capture, concentrate, store and convert it into cost-effective energy on demand. The company offers heliostat fields, and associated control systems, solar receivers, thermal energy storage, and heat engines. Its solutions include carbon-free steam production, a system that produces heat or steam for use in industrial processes; net zero power generation system, a turbine generator with the baseline system, which achieves net-zero emissions in electricity production; and green hydrogen production, and electrolyzer with the baseline system that produces green hydrogen fuel. The company also offers professional services, such as turnkey project construction, project site development, and research and development studies. It serves the food and beverage, mining and mineral processing, oil and gas, transportation, chemicals, cement, and metals manufacturing industries. The company was formerly known as Edison Microgrids, Inc. and changed its name to Heliogen, Inc. in November 2019. The company is headquartered in Pasadena, California.

About Companhia Paranaense de Energia

Companhia Paranaense de Energia – COPEL engages in the generation, transformation, distribution, and sale of electricity to industrial, residential, commercial, rural, and other customers in Brazil. The company operates through Power Generation and Transmission, Power Distribution, GAS, Power Sale, and Holding and Services segments. It is also involved in the piped natural gas distribution. The company operates hydroelectric, wind, and thermoelectric plants; and owns and operates transmission and distribution lines. It holds concessions to distribute electricity in municipalities in the State of Paraná and in the municipality of Porto União in the State of Santa Catarina. Companhia Paranaense de Energia COPEL was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Curitiba, Brazil.