Reviewing Clean Energy Fuels (NASDAQ:CLNE) & Enagas (OTCMKTS:ENGGY)

Clean Energy Fuels (NASDAQ:CLNE) and Enagas (OTCMKTS:ENGGY) are both utilities companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, valuation and earnings.

Volatility and Risk

Clean Energy Fuels has a beta of 2.7, suggesting that its share price is 170% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Enagas has a beta of 0.53, suggesting that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

49.9% of Clean Energy Fuels shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.3% of Clean Energy Fuels shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Enagas shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Clean Energy Fuels and Enagas, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Clean Energy Fuels	0	1	3	1	3.00
Enagas	0	0	0	0	0.00

Clean Energy Fuels currently has a consensus target price of $3.59, indicating a potential upside of 33.46%. Given Clean Energy Fuels’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Clean Energy Fuels is more favorable than Enagas.

Profitability

This table compares Clean Energy Fuels and Enagas’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Clean Energy Fuels	-48.40%	-27.98%	-15.71%
Enagas	N/A	N/A	N/A

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Clean Energy Fuels and Enagas”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Clean Energy Fuels	$415.86 million	1.42	-$83.07 million	($0.90)	-2.99
Enagas	$979.99 million	4.11	-$323.88 million	N/A	N/A

Clean Energy Fuels has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Enagas.

Summary

Clean Energy Fuels beats Enagas on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Clean Energy Fuels

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. provides natural gas as alternative fuels for vehicle fleets and related fueling solutions in the United States and Canada. It supplies renewable natural gas (RNG), compressed natural gas (CNG), and liquefied natural gas (LNG) for medium and heavy-duty vehicles; and offers operation and maintenance services for public and private vehicle fleet customer stations. The company also designs, builds, operates, and maintains vehicle fueling stations; and sells and services compressors and other equipment that are used in RNG production and fueling stations. In addition, it transports and sells CNG, RNG, and LNG through virtual natural gas pipelines and interconnects; sells U.S. federal, state, and local government credits, such as RNG as a vehicle fuel, including Renewable Identification Numbers and Low Carbon Fuel Standards credits; and obtains federal, state, and local credits, grants, and incentives. Further, the company focuses on developing, owning, and operating dairy and other livestock waste RNG projects. It serves heavy-duty trucking, airports, refuse, public transit, industrial, and institutional energy users, as well as government fleets. Clean Energy Fuels Corp. was incorporated in 2001 and is headquartered in Newport Beach, California.

About Enagas

Enagás, S.A. engages in the development, operation, and maintenance of gas infrastructures in Spain and internationally. The company provides gas transportation services through gas pipelines; natural gas regasification services; and operates underground storage facilities. It is involved in the operation and technical management of the basic network and secondary transportation network for natural gas. The company operates approximately 12,000 kilometers of gas pipelines, 19 compressor stations and 416 regulation and metering stations. Enagás, S.A. was founded in 1972 and is based in Madrid, Spain.