Comparing Tecogen (TGEN) and Its Competitors

Tecogen (OTCMKTS:TGEN) is one of 219 publicly-traded companies in the “Electrical Equipment” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its peers? We will compare Tecogen to similar companies based on the strength of its valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

38.2% of shares of all “Electrical Equipment” companies are held by institutional investors. 12.0% of Tecogen shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.2% of shares of all “Electrical Equipment” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Tecogen and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Tecogen	0	1	1	0	2.50
Tecogen Competitors	2179	5191	7198	412	2.39

Tecogen presently has a consensus target price of $11.25, suggesting a potential upside of 238.86%. As a group, “Electrical Equipment” companies have a potential upside of 26.84%. Given Tecogen’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Tecogen is more favorable than its peers.

Risk and Volatility

Tecogen has a beta of 2.11, indicating that its stock price is 111% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tecogen’s peers have a beta of -20.11, indicating that their average stock price is 2,111% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Tecogen and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Tecogen	-24.15%	-42.06%	-19.55%
Tecogen Competitors	-1,640.97%	-198.42%	-8.75%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Tecogen and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Tecogen	$26.13 million	-$4.60 million	-10.06
Tecogen Competitors	$2.35 billion	$133.21 million	28.01

Tecogen’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Tecogen. Tecogen 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.

Summary

Tecogen peers beat Tecogen on 7 of the 13 factors compared.

About Tecogen

Tecogen Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, markets, and maintains ultra-clean cogeneration products for multi-family residential, commercial, recreational, and industrial use primarily in the United States. It operates through three segments: Products, Services, and Energy Production. The Products segment designs, manufactures, and sells industrial and commercial cogeneration systems. The Services segment provides operation and maintenance services for products under long term service contracts. The Energy Production segment sells energy in the form of electricity, heat, hot water, and cooling to customers under long-term energy sales agreements. The company also offers natural gas-powered cogeneration systems for water and space heating, and/or air conditioning. Its product portfolio includes InVerde e+ and TecoPower cogeneration units for the supply electricity and hot water; Tecochill, an air-conditioning and refrigeration chillers, and hybrid-drive air-cooled and gas engine-driven chillers to produce chilled water and hot water; Tecofrost, a gas engine-driven refrigeration compressors to circulate refrigerant and provide hot water as a byproduct; and Ultera, an emissions control technology. In addition, the company provides long-term maintenance contracts, parts sales, and turnkey installation for products through a network of field service centers. It sells its products to healthcare, housing and hospitality, ice rink and low temperature, recreation facilities, industrial, indoor growing, and breweries markets through in-house marketing, as well as independent sales agents and representatives. Tecogen Inc. was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.