Critical Analysis: Fusion Fuel Green (HTOO) vs. Its Peers

Fusion Fuel Green (NASDAQ:HTOO) is one of 24 public companies in the “Industrial Services” industry, but how does it compare to its peers? We will compare Fusion Fuel Green to related businesses based on the strength of its profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation.

Volatility and Risk

Fusion Fuel Green has a beta of 1.98, meaning that its stock price is 98% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fusion Fuel Green’s peers have a beta of 1.21, meaning that their average stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Fusion Fuel Green and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Fusion Fuel Green	N/A	N/A	N/A
Fusion Fuel Green Competitors	-11.05%	8.32%	2.84%

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Fusion Fuel Green and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Fusion Fuel Green	1	0	0	0	1.00
Fusion Fuel Green Competitors	395	941	1009	41	2.29

As a group, “Industrial Services” companies have a potential upside of 12.15%. Given Fusion Fuel Green’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Fusion Fuel Green has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Fusion Fuel Green and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Fusion Fuel Green	$1.74 million	-$14.92 million	-0.43
Fusion Fuel Green Competitors	$9.76 billion	$634.44 million	11.34

Fusion Fuel Green’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Fusion Fuel Green. Fusion Fuel Green is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

17.8% of Fusion Fuel Green shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.2% of shares of all “Industrial Services” companies are owned by institutional investors. 18.7% of Fusion Fuel Green shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 18.9% of shares of all “Industrial Services” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Fusion Fuel Green peers beat Fusion Fuel Green on 11 of the 13 factors compared.

About Fusion Fuel Green

Fusion Fuel Green PLC, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells miniaturized PEM electrolyzers to produce green hydrogen in Portugal, Spain, and rest of southern Europe. The company offers HEVO-Chain, a centralized PEM electrolyzer; and HEVO-Solar, a grid-independent hydrogen generator. It also provides engineering and procurement services comprising advisory, concept and proposal developments; FEL I, II and III studies; construction and legalization services; and operation and maintenance services. In addition, the company is involved in hydrogen project development. It serves natural gas networks and grids, oil refineries, ammonia producers, regulators, and related government departments. Fusion Fuel Green PLC was founded in 2018 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.