OPAL Fuels (OPAL) vs. Its Rivals Head-To-Head Analysis

OPAL Fuels (NASDAQ:OPAL) is one of 75 publicly-traded companies in the “Other Alt Energy” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare OPAL Fuels to related companies based on the strength of its profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, earnings and risk.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for OPAL Fuels and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
OPAL Fuels	1	1	1	0	2.00
OPAL Fuels Competitors	249	971	1617	50	2.51

OPAL Fuels currently has a consensus price target of $3.00, indicating a potential downside of 4.76%. As a group, “Other Alt Energy” companies have a potential downside of 4.87%. Given OPAL Fuels’ higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe OPAL Fuels is more favorable than its peers.

Profitability

This table compares OPAL Fuels and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
OPAL Fuels	-0.24%	-1.84%	0.29%
OPAL Fuels Competitors	-41.99%	-24.92%	-4.00%

Volatility and Risk

OPAL Fuels has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OPAL Fuels’ peers have a beta of -72.72, indicating that their average stock price is 7,372% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

12.2% of OPAL Fuels shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.6% of shares of all “Other Alt Energy” companies are held by institutional investors. 84.6% of OPAL Fuels shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.4% of shares of all “Other Alt Energy” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares OPAL Fuels and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
OPAL Fuels	$299.97 million	$11.03 million	157.50
OPAL Fuels Competitors	$3.58 billion	$332.18 million	10.90

OPAL Fuels’ peers have higher revenue and earnings than OPAL Fuels. OPAL Fuels is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Summary

OPAL Fuels beats its peers on 7 of the 13 factors compared.

About OPAL Fuels

OPAL Fuels Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the production and distribution of renewable natural gas for use as a vehicle fuel for heavy and medium-duty trucking fleets. It also designs, develops, constructs, operates, and services fueling stations for trucking fleets that use natural gas to displace diesel as transportation fuel. In addition, it offers design, development, and construction services for hydrogen fueling stations. Further, the company engages in the generation and sale of renewable power to utilities. OPAL Fuels Inc. is based in White Plains, New York.