SMR vs. MRCY, LILA, VIAV, LILAK, ETWO, DAVA, SPT, DFIN, GRND, and UPWK
Should you be buying NuScale Power stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NuScale Power include Mercury Systems (MRCY), Liberty Latin America (LILA), Viavi Solutions (VIAV), Liberty Latin America (LILAK), E2open Parent (ETWO), Endava (DAVA), Sprout Social (SPT), Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN), Grindr (GRND), and Upwork (UPWK). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Mercury Systems (NASDAQ:MRCY) and NuScale Power (NYSE:SMR) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and community ranking.
96.0% of Mercury Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.3% of NuScale Power shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Mercury Systems shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of NuScale Power shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Mercury Systems has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NuScale Power has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Mercury Systems received 470 more outperform votes than NuScale Power when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.39% of users gave Mercury Systems an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave NuScale Power an outperform vote.
Mercury Systems currently has a consensus price target of $29.63, suggesting a potential downside of 6.40%. NuScale Power has a consensus price target of $7.75, suggesting a potential upside of 22.82%. Given Mercury Systems' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe NuScale Power is more favorable than Mercury Systems.
Mercury Systems has a net margin of -16.08% compared to Mercury Systems' net margin of -342.39%. NuScale Power's return on equity of -5.07% beat Mercury Systems' return on equity.
In the previous week, Mercury Systems and Mercury Systems both had 4 articles in the media. Mercury Systems' average media sentiment score of 0.48 beat NuScale Power's score of 0.48 indicating that NuScale Power is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Mercury Systems has higher revenue and earnings than NuScale Power. Mercury Systems is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NuScale Power, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
NuScale Power beats Mercury Systems on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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