Head-To-Head Review: Ormat Technologies (NYSE:ORA) vs. CBRE Acquisition (OTCMKTS:CBAHU)

CBRE Acquisition (OTCMKTS:CBAHU) and Ormat Technologies (NYSE:ORA) are both transportation, communications, electric, gas, and sanitary services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, dividends and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for CBRE Acquisition and Ormat Technologies, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CBRE Acquisition	0	0	0	0	0.00
Ormat Technologies	0	5	3	0	2.38

Ormat Technologies has a consensus target price of $82.25, indicating a potential upside of 31.00%. Given Ormat Technologies’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ormat Technologies is more favorable than CBRE Acquisition.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares CBRE Acquisition and Ormat Technologies”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CBRE Acquisition	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Ormat Technologies	$829.42 million	4.58	$124.40 million	$1.96	32.03

Ormat Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than CBRE Acquisition.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

95.5% of Ormat Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Ormat Technologies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares CBRE Acquisition and Ormat Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CBRE Acquisition	N/A	N/A	N/A
Ormat Technologies	13.33%	5.27%	2.40%

Summary

Ormat Technologies beats CBRE Acquisition on 9 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About CBRE Acquisition

Altus Power, Inc. operates as a clean electrification company in the United States. It is involved in the on-site solar generation for commercial, industrial, and public customers; community solar; energy storage; and electric vehicle charging businesses. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Stamford, Connecticut.

About Ormat Technologies

Ormat Technologies, Inc. engages in the geothermal and recovered energy power business in the United States, Indonesia, Kenya, Turkey, Chile, Guatemala, Guadeloupe, New Zealand, Honduras, and internationally. It operates in three segments: Electricity, Product, and Energy Storage. The Electricity segment develops, builds, owns, and operates geothermal, solar photovoltaic, and recovered energy-based power plants; and sells electricity. The Product segment designs, manufactures, and sells equipment for geothermal and recovered energy-based electricity generation; and provides services relating to the engineering, procurement, construction, operation, and maintenance of geothermal and recovered energy-based power plants. This segment serves contractors; and owners and operators of interstate natural gas pipelines, gas processing plants, and cement plants, as well as companies in other energy-intensive industrial processes. The Energy Storage segment offers battery energy storage systems and related services. Ormat Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Reno, Nevada.