Nuvve (NASDAQ:NVVE) vs. Cooper-Standard (NYSE:CPS) Head-To-Head Contrast

Nuvve (NASDAQ:NVVE) and Cooper-Standard (NYSE:CPS) are both small-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk and earnings.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings for Nuvve and Cooper-Standard, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Nuvve	1	0	0	0	1.00
Cooper-Standard	1	2	1	0	2.00

Cooper-Standard has a consensus target price of $26.50, indicating a potential downside of 14.16%. Given Cooper-Standard’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Cooper-Standard is more favorable than Nuvve.

Risk and Volatility

Nuvve has a beta of 2.13, meaning that its share price is 113% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cooper-Standard has a beta of 2.69, meaning that its share price is 169% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Nuvve and Cooper-Standard’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Nuvve	-641.21%	N/A	-174.96%
Cooper-Standard	1.08%	N/A	-0.58%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Nuvve and Cooper-Standard”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Nuvve	$5.29 million	1.62	-$17.40 million	($11.99)	-0.02
Cooper-Standard	$85.43 billion	0.01	-$78.75 million	$1.82	16.96

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

Insider & Institutional Ownership

19.0% of Nuvve shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.1% of Cooper-Standard shares are held by institutional investors. 10.6% of Nuvve shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.8% of Cooper-Standard shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Cooper-Standard beats Nuvve on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Nuvve

Nuvve Holding Corp., a green energy technology company, provides commercial vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology platform in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Denmark. The company offers Grid Integrated Vehicle platform, which enables electric vehicle (EV) batteries to store and resell unused energy back to the local electric grid and provide other grid services, as well as allows EV owners to meet the energy demands of individual vehicles and entire fleets. Its V2G technology also links EV batteries into a virtual power plant that sells excess power to utility companies or utilizes saved power to reduce building energy peak consumption. In addition, the company offers networked charging stations, infrastructure, software, professional services, support, monitoring, and parts and labor warranties required to run electric vehicle fleets. It serves its products to owners/operators of light duty fleets, heavy duty fleets, automotive manufacturers, charge point operators, and strategic partners. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

About Cooper-Standard

Cooper-Standard Holdings Inc., through its subsidiary, Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc., manufactures and sells sealing, fuel and brake delivery, and fluid transfer systems in the United States, Mexico, China, Poland, Canada, Germany, France, and internationally. The company offers sealing systems, including dynamic seals, static seals, encapsulated glasses, textured surfaces with cloth appearance, obstacle detection sensor systems, FlushSeal systems, variable extrusions, specialty sealing products, stainless steel trims, and frameless systems. It also provides fuel and brake delivery systems comprising chassis and tank fuel lines and bundles, metallic brake lines and bundles, quick connects, low oligomer multi-layer convoluted tubes, brake jounce lines, direct injection and port fuel rails, MagAlloy break tube coating, and ArmorTube brake tube coating. In addition, the company offers fluid transfer systems, such as heater/coolant hoses, turbo charger hoses, charged air cooler ducts/assemblies, diesel particulate filter lines, secondary air hoses, degas tanks and deaerators, brake and clutch hoses, air intake and discharge systems, transmission oil cooling hoses, high temperature MLTs, and multilayer tubing for glycol thermal management. Its products are primarily used in passenger vehicles and light trucks that are manufactured by automotive original equipment manufacturers and replacement markets. Cooper-Standard Holdings Inc. was founded in 1960 and is headquartered in Northville, Michigan.