SunPower (NASDAQ:SPWR – Get Free Report) and POET Technologies (NASDAQ:POET – Get Free Report) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares SunPower and POET Technologies’ top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| SunPower | $1.69 billion | 0.29 | -$247.11 million | ($1.37) | -2.03 |
| POET Technologies | $470,000.00 | 242.36 | -$20.27 million | ($0.49) | -3.84 |
POET Technologies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than SunPower. POET Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SunPower, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Volatility and Risk
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current ratings for SunPower and POET Technologies, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| SunPower | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1.50 |
| POET Technologies | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3.00 |
SunPower currently has a consensus price target of $4.56, suggesting a potential upside of 64.12%. POET Technologies has a consensus price target of $7.50, suggesting a potential upside of 298.94%. Given POET Technologies’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe POET Technologies is more favorable than SunPower.
Profitability
This table compares SunPower and POET Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| SunPower | -14.15% | -40.95% | -11.70% |
| POET Technologies | N/A | -269.59% | -195.01% |
Institutional & Insider Ownership
47.4% of SunPower shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.0% of POET Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of SunPower shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of POET Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
POET Technologies beats SunPower on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About SunPower
SunPower Corporation, a solar technology and energy services provider, offers solar, storage, and home energy solutions primarily in the United States and Canada. Its solutions include the Equinox and SunVault systems which are pre-engineered modular solutions for residential applications that combine solar module technology with integrated plug-and-play power stations, cable management systems, and mounting hardware that enable dealers and installers to complete system installations, as well as for end customers to manage their energy production. The company also provides post-installation monitoring and maintenance services. It serves residential customers, including individual homeowners and new home builders. The company was incorporated in 1985 and is headquartered in Richmond, California. SunPower Corporation operates as a subsidiary of TotalEnergies SE.
About POET Technologies
POET Technologies Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and sells discrete and integrated opto-electronic solutions in Canada, the United States, Singapore, and China. It offers integration solutions based on the POET Optical Interposer, a novel platform that allows the seamless integration of electronic and photonic devices into a single multi-chip module using advanced wafer-level semiconductor manufacturing techniques. It also develops photonic integrated components. The company serves the data center, telecommunications, Internet of things and industrial sensing, automotive LIDAR, optical coherence tomography for medical devices, and virtual reality systems markets. The company was formerly known as Opel Technologies Inc. and changed its name to POET Technologies Inc. in June 2013. POET Technologies Inc. was incorporated in 1972 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
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