Financial Review: CSLM Acquisition (SPWR) and Its Competitors

CSLM Acquisition (NASDAQ:SPWR) is one of 52 publicly-traded companies in the “Solar” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare CSLM Acquisition to similar businesses based on the strength of its dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk and valuation.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares CSLM Acquisition and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
CSLM Acquisition	$108.74 million	-$56.45 million	-2.40
CSLM Acquisition Competitors	$3.52 billion	-$160.68 million	-1.78

CSLM Acquisition’s peers have higher revenue, but lower earnings than CSLM Acquisition. CSLM Acquisition is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

47.4% of CSLM Acquisition shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.8% of shares of all “Solar” companies are held by institutional investors. 32.3% of CSLM Acquisition shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.8% of shares of all “Solar” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk & Volatility

CSLM Acquisition has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CSLM Acquisition’s peers have a beta of 3.50, indicating that their average stock price is 250% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares CSLM Acquisition and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CSLM Acquisition	-18.51%	-0.35%	0.27%
CSLM Acquisition Competitors	-2,178.44%	-481.67%	-17.39%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for CSLM Acquisition and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CSLM Acquisition	1	1	1	1	2.50
CSLM Acquisition Competitors	586	1481	2268	66	2.41

CSLM Acquisition presently has a consensus target price of $5.40, suggesting a potential upside of 221.43%. As a group, “Solar” companies have a potential upside of 2.48%. Given CSLM Acquisition’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe CSLM Acquisition is more favorable than its peers.

Summary

CSLM Acquisition beats its peers on 9 of the 13 factors compared.

About CSLM Acquisition

Complete Solaria, Inc. engages in the provision of solar services. It offers sales enablement, project management, partner coordination, and customer communication. The company is headquartered in San Ramon, CA and does business as SunPower Corporation.