Financial Study: Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises (NYSE:BW) vs. Vast Renewables (NASDAQ:VSTE)

Vast Renewables ( NASDAQ:VSTE – Get Your Free Report ) and Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises ( NYSE:BW – Get Your Free Report ) are both small-cap oil/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We’ll compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.

Rating and Earnings

This table compares the top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation of Vast Renewables and Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises.

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises has higher revenue and earnings than Vast Renewables.

return

This table compares Vast Renewables and Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

Insider and institutional ownership

90.9% of Vast Renewables shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.2% of Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises shares are held by institutional investors. 41.2% of Vast Renewables shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and big money managers believe the stock is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Vast Renewables and Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises as provided by MarketBeat.

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises has a consensus target price of $4.50, suggesting a potential upside of 136.84%. Given Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises’ higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises is more favorable than Vast Renewables.

Volatility and risk

Vast Renewables has a beta of -0.4, suggesting that its share price is 140% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises has a beta of 1.72, suggesting that its share price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500. .

About Vast Renewables

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Nabors Energy Transition Corp. is a blank check company. Intends to effect a merger, stock exchange, asset purchase, stock purchase, reorganization or related business combination with one or more businesses. Nabors Energy Transition Corp. is based in Houston, Texas.

About Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises

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Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides energy and emission control solutions to industrial, electric utility, municipal and other customers worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Babcock & Wilcox Renewable; Babcock & Wilcox Environmental; and Babcock & Wilcox Thermal. The Babcock & Wilcox Renewable segment provides technologies for redirecting waste from landfills to generate energy and replace fossil fuels and recover metals and reduce emissions. It offers BrightLoop, a hydrogen generation technology that generates hydrogen from a range of fuels, including solid fuels such as biomass and coal. This segment also offers technologies for power and heat generation, including waste-to-energy; OxyBright, a biomass-to-energy technology based on oxygen; and black liquor systems for the pulp and paper industry. The Babcock & Wilcox Environmental segment offers a range of emission control and environmental technology solutions for utility, waste to energy, biomass, carbon black and industrial steam generation applications. This segment offers systems for cooling, ash handling, particulate control, nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide removal, carbon control chemical loops and mercury control under the SolveBright, OxyBright, BrightLoop and BrightGen names. The Babcock & Wilcox Thermal segment provides spare parts, construction, maintenance, upgrades and field services for its installed base as well as the installed base of other OEMs for power generation, oil and gas, petrochemical, food and beverage, metals and mining and others. This segment also offers steam generation systems including package boilers, water tube and fire tube waste heat boilers and other boilers to medium and heavy industrial customers. Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. was founded in 1867 and is headquartered in Akron, Ohio.

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