Clean Energy Technologies (NASDAQ:CETY – Get Free Report) and Fluence Energy (NASDAQ:FLNC – Get Free Report) are both energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership and profitability.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Clean Energy Technologies and Fluence Energy, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Clean Energy Technologies | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
| Fluence Energy | 4 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 2.05 |
Fluence Energy has a consensus target price of $19.47, indicating a potential downside of 8.20%. Given Fluence Energy’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Fluence Energy is more favorable than Clean Energy Technologies.
Valuation and Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Clean Energy Technologies | $2.16 million | 4.78 | -$6.81 million | ($1.51) | -0.56 |
| Fluence Energy | $2.26 billion | 1.73 | -$48.31 million | ($0.36) | -58.92 |
Clean Energy Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Fluence Energy. Fluence Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Clean Energy Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Volatility & Risk
Clean Energy Technologies has a beta of -1.49, indicating that its stock price is 249% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fluence Energy has a beta of 2.76, indicating that its stock price is 176% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
0.5% of Clean Energy Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.2% of Fluence Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 37.5% of Clean Energy Technologies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Fluence Energy shares are held 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.
Profitability
This table compares Clean Energy Technologies and Fluence Energy’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Clean Energy Technologies | -263.45% | -94.40% | -38.97% |
| Fluence Energy | -1.62% | -8.29% | -1.85% |
Summary
Fluence Energy beats Clean Energy Technologies on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Clean Energy Technologies
Clean Energy Technologies, Inc. designs, produces, and markets clean energy products and integrated solutions that focuses on energy efficiency and renewable energy in the United States. It operates through four segments: Clean Energy HRS and CETY Europe, CETY Renewables Waste to Energy Solutions, engineering and Manufacturing Business, and CETY HK. The company offers Clean Cycle, which generates electricity by recycling wasted heat produced in manufacturing, waste to energy, and power generation facilities. It also converts waste products created in manufacturing, agriculture, wastewater treatment plants, and other industries to electricity, renewable natural gas, hydrogen, and bio char. In addition, the company offers engineering, consulting, and project management solutions. Further, the company is involved in the sourcing and suppling of liquefied natural gas to industries and municipalities located in the southern part of Sichuan Province and portions of Yunnan Province. The company was formerly known as Probe Manufacturing, Inc. and changed its name to Clean Energy Technologies, Inc. in November 2015. Clean Energy Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Irvine, California. Clean Energy Technologies, Inc. is a subsidiary of MGW Investment I Ltd.
About Fluence Energy
Fluence Energy, Inc., through its subsidiaries, offers energy storage products and solution, services, and artificial intelligence enabled software-as-a-service products for renewables and storage applications in the Americas, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company sells energy storage products with integrated hardware, software, and digital intelligence. Its energy storage products include Gridstack Pro, a large-scale front-of-the-meter application; Gridstack, a front-of-the-meter application; Sunstack, a DC-coupled energy storage product for DC-coupled solar + storage projects; Edgestack, for smaller-scale commercial and industrial use cases; and Ultrastack, for critical system requirements of distribution and transmission networks. The company also provides engineering and delivery services to support the deployment of its storage products; operational and maintenance services; and digital applications. It serves independent power producers, developer, utilities, and other generators. Fluence Energy, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. Fluence Energy, Inc. is a joint venture of Siemens Aktiengesellschaft and The AES Corporation.
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