Financial Review: TOYO (TOYO) vs. The Competition

TOYO (NASDAQ:TOYO) is one of 47 publicly-traded companies in the “Solar” industry, but how does it compare to its peers? We will compare TOYO to similar companies based on the strength of its institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings and risk.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

84.6% of TOYO shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.8% of shares of all “Solar” companies are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of TOYO shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.8% of shares of all “Solar” companies 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.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for TOYO and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
TOYO	0	2	2	0	2.50
TOYO Competitors	700	1620	2428	78	2.39

TOYO presently has a consensus price target of $16.50, suggesting a potential upside of 28.71%. As a group, “Solar” companies have a potential upside of 3.08%. Given TOYO’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe TOYO is more favorable than its peers.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
TOYO	N/A	N/A	N/A
TOYO Competitors	-436.13%	-60.70%	-7.77%

Volatility & Risk

TOYO has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TOYO’s peers have a beta of 9.32, meaning that their average stock price is 832% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares TOYO and its peers revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
TOYO	$518.61 million	$39.66 million	17.09
TOYO Competitors	$3.90 billion	$21.55 million	7.76

TOYO’s peers have higher revenue, but lower earnings than TOYO. TOYO is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Summary

TOYO beats its peers on 8 of the 13 factors compared.

TOYO Company Profile

TOYO Co. Ltd. engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of solar cells and modules. It is involved in integrating the upstream production of wafer and silicon, midstream production of solar cell, downstream production of photovoltaic (PV) modules, and potentially other stages of the solar power supply chain. The company was founded on November 8, 2022 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.