Critical Comparison: NuScale Power (NYSE:SMR) and Allient (NASDAQ:ALNT)

Allient (NASDAQ:ALNT) and NuScale Power (NYSE:SMR) are both industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and risk.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Allient and NuScale Power, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Allient	0	1	4	1	3.00
NuScale Power	4	8	4	1	2.12

Allient currently has a consensus price target of $84.00, indicating a potential downside of 27.55%. NuScale Power has a consensus price target of $12.96, indicating a potential upside of 66.28%. Given NuScale Power’s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe NuScale Power is more favorable than Allient.

Profitability

This table compares Allient and NuScale Power’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Allient	4.98%	13.55%	7.05%
NuScale Power	-3,888.70%	-35.59%	-30.27%

Risk and Volatility

Allient has a beta of 1.58, suggesting that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NuScale Power has a beta of 2.36, suggesting that its stock price is 136% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Allient and NuScale Power”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Allient	$554.48 million	3.55	$22.03 million	$1.70	68.21
NuScale Power	$31.48 million	106.41	-$355.79 million	($2.92)	-2.67

Allient has higher revenue and earnings than NuScale Power. NuScale Power is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Allient, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

61.6% of Allient shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.4% of NuScale Power shares are held by institutional investors. 15.0% of Allient shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of NuScale Power 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.

Summary

Allient beats NuScale Power on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Allient

Allient Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and sells precision and specialty controlled motion components and systems for various industries in the United States, Canada, South America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. It offers brush and brushless DC motors, brushless servo and torque motors, coreless DC motors, integrated brushless motor-drives, gearmotors, gearing, modular digital servo drives, motion controllers, optical encoders, active and passive filters, input/output modules, industrial communications gateways, light-weighting technologies, and other controlled motion-related products, as well as nano precision positioning systems, servo control systems, and digital servo amplifiers and drives. The company sells its products to end customers and original equipment manufacturers in vehicle, medical, aerospace and defense, and industrial markets through direct sales force, authorized manufacturers’ representatives, and distributors. The company was formerly known as Allied Motion Technologies Inc. and changed its name to Allient Inc. in August 2023. Allient Inc. was incorporated in 1962 and is headquartered in Amherst, New York.

About NuScale Power

NuScale Power Corporation engages in the development and sale of modular light water reactor nuclear power plants to supply energy for electrical generation, district heating, desalination, hydrogen production, and other process heat applications. It offers NuScale Power Module (NPM), a water reactor that can generate 77 megawatts of electricity (MWe); and VOYGR power plant designs for three facility sizes that are capable of housing from one to four and six or twelve NPMs. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. NuScale Power Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Fluor Enterprises, Inc.