Ormat Technologies (NYSE:ORA) & Clean Energy Pathways (OTCMKTS:CPWY) Head to Head Survey

Ormat Technologies (NYSE:ORA) and Clean Energy Pathways (OTCMKTS:CPWY) are both energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and earnings.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Ormat Technologies and Clean Energy Pathways”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Ormat Technologies	$879.65 million	6.23	$123.73 million	$2.15	41.97
Clean Energy Pathways	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Ormat Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Clean Energy Pathways.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Ormat Technologies and Clean Energy Pathways, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Ormat Technologies	0	4	7	1	2.75
Clean Energy Pathways	0	0	0	0	0.00

Ormat Technologies presently has a consensus price target of $93.30, suggesting a potential upside of 3.40%. Given Ormat Technologies’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Ormat Technologies is more favorable than Clean Energy Pathways.

Profitability

This table compares Ormat Technologies and Clean Energy Pathways’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Ormat Technologies	14.49%	5.47%	2.43%
Clean Energy Pathways	N/A	N/A	N/A

Insider and Institutional Ownership

95.5% of Ormat Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Ormat Technologies 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.

Summary

Ormat Technologies beats Clean Energy Pathways on 10 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Ormat Technologies

Ormat Technologies, Inc. engages in the geothermal and recovered energy power business in the United States, Indonesia, Kenya, Turkey, Chile, Guatemala, Guadeloupe, New Zealand, Honduras, and internationally. It operates in three segments: Electricity, Product, and Energy Storage. The Electricity segment develops, builds, owns, and operates geothermal, solar photovoltaic, and recovered energy-based power plants; and sells electricity. The Product segment designs, manufactures, and sells equipment for geothermal and recovered energy-based electricity generation; and provides services relating to the engineering, procurement, construction, operation, and maintenance of geothermal and recovered energy-based power plants. This segment serves contractors; and owners and operators of interstate natural gas pipelines, gas processing plants, and cement plants, as well as companies in other energy-intensive industrial processes. The Energy Storage segment offers battery energy storage systems and related services. Ormat Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Reno, Nevada.

About Clean Energy Pathways

Clean Energy Pathways, Inc. operates as a multifaceted development-stage alternative energy company. It focuses on developing fossil fuel replacements utilizing clean burning biomass fuel, solar photo voltaic panels for power generation, and solar thermal application for heating water in commercial and residential applications; and LED lighting replacements for high energy and heat producing incandescent and mercury vapor lighting. It is also working to develop carbon neutral organic fertilizers. The company was formerly known as XcelPlus Global Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Clean Energy Pathways, Inc. in August 2010. Clean Energy Pathways, Inc. was incorporated in 2000 and is based in Buffalo, Wyoming.