Complete Solaria (NASDAQ:CSLR – Get Free Report) and Ultra Clean (NASDAQ:UCTT – Get Free Report) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
30.3% of Complete Solaria shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.1% of Ultra Clean shares are owned by institutional investors. 44.6% of Complete Solaria shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Ultra Clean shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Profitability
This table compares Complete Solaria and Ultra Clean’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Complete Solaria | -321.32% | N/A | -136.87% |
| Ultra Clean | 0.18% | 4.08% | 1.94% |
Analyst Recommendations
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Complete Solaria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3.00 |
| Ultra Clean | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3.00 |
Complete Solaria presently has a consensus price target of $6.00, suggesting a potential upside of 289.61%. Ultra Clean has a consensus price target of $57.75, suggesting a potential upside of 65.00%. Given Complete Solaria’s higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Complete Solaria is more favorable than Ultra Clean.
Volatility and Risk
Complete Solaria has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ultra Clean has a beta of 2.09, suggesting that its share price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Complete Solaria and Ultra Clean”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Complete Solaria | $40.80 million | 2.78 | -$269.55 million | N/A | N/A |
| Ultra Clean | $1.98 billion | 0.80 | -$31.10 million | $0.08 | 437.50 |
Ultra Clean has higher revenue and earnings than Complete Solaria.
Summary
Ultra Clean beats Complete Solaria on 8 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Complete Solaria
Complete Solaria, Inc. provides custom solar solutions in the United States. The company offers solar systems to homeowners and small to medium-sized commercial customers. It also provides HelioQuoteTM software system, a platform for residential solar designs, proposals, and engineering services. In addition, the company installs solar systems, as well as provides financing solutions. It offers its products and services through third party sales partners. The company is headquartered in Fremont, California.
About Ultra Clean
Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. develops and supplies critical subsystems, components and parts, and ultra-high purity cleaning and analytical services for the semiconductor industry in the United States and internationally. The company provides ultra-clean valves, high purity connectors, industrial process connectors and valves, pneumatic actuators, manifolds and safety solutions, hoses, pressure gauges, and gas line and component heaters; chemical delivery modules that deliver gases and reactive chemicals in a liquid or gaseous form from a centralized subsystem to the reaction chamber; and gas delivery systems, such as weldments, filters, mass flow controllers, regulators, pressure transducers and valves, component heaters, and an integrated electronic and/or pneumatic control system. It also offers various industrial and automation production equipment; fluid delivery systems consist of one or more chemical delivery units, including PFA tubing, filters, flow controllers, regulators, component heaters, and an integrated electronic and/or pneumatic control system; precision robotic systems; top-plate assemblies; frame assemblies; process modules, a subsystem of semiconductor manufacturing tools that process integrated circuits onto wafers; and other high-level assemblies. In addition, the company provides tool chamber parts cleaning and coating services; micro-contamination analysis services for tool parts, wafers and depositions, chemicals, cleanroom materials, deionized water, and airborne molecular contamination; and analytical verification services for process tool chamber part cleaning. It primarily serves original equipment manufacturing customers in the semiconductor capital equipment and semiconductor integrated device manufacturing industries, as well as display, consumer, medical, energy, industrial, and research equipment industries. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Hayward, California.
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