Reviewing Vast Renewables (NASDAQ:VSTE) and Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises (NYSE:BW)

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises (NYSE:BWGet Free Report) and Vast Renewables (NASDAQ:VSTEGet Free Report) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, dividends and earnings.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises and Vast Renewables”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

Gross Revenue Price/Sales Ratio Net Income Earnings Per Share Price/Earnings Ratio
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises $907.78 million 0.24 -$197.21 million ($2.42) -1.00
Vast Renewables $342,000.00 46.85 -$293.45 million N/A N/A

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises and Vast Renewables, as reported by MarketBeat.

Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises 0 1 2 0 2.67
Vast Renewables 0 0 0 0 N/A

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises presently has a consensus target price of $4.50, indicating a potential upside of 85.19%. Given Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises’ higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises is more favorable than Vast Renewables.

Volatility and Risk

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises has a beta of 1.74, indicating that its share price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vast Renewables has a beta of -0.4, indicating that its share price is 140% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

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

Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises -18.85% N/A -5.77%
Vast Renewables N/A N/A N/A

Insider & Institutional Ownership

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

About Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises

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Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides energy and emissions control solutions to industrial, electrical 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 offers technologies divert the waste from landfills for power generation and replacing fossil fuels and recovering metals and reducing 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 provides technologies for power and heat generation comprising waste-to-energy; OxyBright, an oxygen-fired biomass-to-energy technology; and black liquor systems for the pulp and paper industry. The Babcock & Wilcox Environmental segment offers a range of emissions control and environmental technology solutions for utility, waste to energy, biomass, carbon black, and industrial steam generation applications. This segment provides systems for cooling, ash handling, particulate control, nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxides removal, chemical looping for carbon control, and mercury control under the SolveBright, OxyBright, BrightLoop, and BrightGen names. The Babcock & Wilcox Thermal segment offers aftermarket parts, construction, maintenance, engineered upgrades, and field services for its installed bases, 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 provides steam generation systems, including package boilers, watertube and firetube waste heat boilers, and other boilers to medium and heavy industrial customers. Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. was founded in 1867 and is based in Akron, Ohio.

About Vast Renewables

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

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