Analyzing PowerBank (NASDAQ:SUUN) & SolarEdge Technologies (NASDAQ:SEDG)

PowerBank (NASDAQ:SUUN) and SolarEdge Technologies (NASDAQ:SEDG) are both energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares PowerBank and SolarEdge Technologies”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
PowerBank	$29.76 million	2.11	-$22.25 million	($0.16)	-10.69
SolarEdge Technologies	$940.56 million	2.51	-$1.81 billion	($29.96)	-1.33

PowerBank has higher earnings, but lower revenue than SolarEdge Technologies. PowerBank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SolarEdge Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for PowerBank and SolarEdge Technologies, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
PowerBank	1	0	3	1	2.80
SolarEdge Technologies	11	18	0	0	1.62

PowerBank currently has a consensus target price of $5.00, suggesting a potential upside of 192.40%. SolarEdge Technologies has a consensus target price of $21.68, suggesting a potential downside of 45.46%. Given PowerBank’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe PowerBank is more favorable than SolarEdge Technologies.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

95.1% of SolarEdge Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of SolarEdge Technologies shares are held 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.

Profitability

This table compares PowerBank and SolarEdge Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
PowerBank	-7.86%	2.24%	0.65%
SolarEdge Technologies	-177.64%	-191.53%	-49.83%

Volatility & Risk

PowerBank has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SolarEdge Technologies has a beta of 1.58, suggesting that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

PowerBank beats SolarEdge Technologies on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About PowerBank

SolarBank Corporation operates as an independent renewable and clean energy project developer and asset operator in Canada and the United States. The company engages in the site origination, development, financing, engineering, procurement, construction, operation, maintenance, and asset management of solar photovoltaic power generation projects. It offers solar energy solutions in the areas of behind-the-meter solar power plants, electricity grid connected community solar gardens, and utility scale solar farms. The company was formerly known as Abundant Solar Energy Inc. and changed its name to SolarBank Corporation in October 2022. SolarBank Corporation was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

About SolarEdge Technologies

SolarEdge Technologies, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and sells direct current (DC) optimized inverter systems for solar photovoltaic (PV) installations in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, rest of Europe, and internationally. It operates in two segments, Solar and Energy Storage. The Solar segment offers power optimizers, inverters, batteries, storage solutions, electric vehicle chargers, smart tracking solutions, and smart energy management software products; Monitoring platform, a cloud-based monitoring platform, which collects power, voltage, current, and system data sent from inverters and power optimizers; and MySolarEdge app, that enables system owners to track their real-time system production and household energy consumption. This segment also provides Designer platform, an web-based tool that helps solar professionals to plan, build, and validate residential and commercial systems; Mapper application for registering the physical layout of new PV sites installed with DC optimized inverter systems; SetApp application that activates and configurate inverters; and grid services. The Energy Storage segment provides lithium-ion cells and containerized battery systems (BESS) solutions for commercial, industrial, and utility markets; modules and racks; purpose-built components and solutions, and hardware and software tools; and pre and post sales engineering support for designing, building, and managing battery and system solutions. The company offers e-mobility products, automated machines, and UPS products; and pre-sales support, ongoing trainings, and technical support and after installation services. It sells its products through solar installers and distributors, electrical equipment wholesalers, and PV module manufacturers, as well as engineering, procurement, and construction firms. SolarEdge Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel.