Financial Survey: Fabrinet (NYSE:FN) and SUNation Energy (NASDAQ:SUNE)

SUNation Energy (NASDAQ:SUNE) and Fabrinet (NYSE:FN) are both energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, profitability, risk and dividends.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares SUNation Energy and Fabrinet”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
SUNation Energy	$60.93 million	0.02	-$8.13 million	N/A	N/A
Fabrinet	$3.12 billion	1.99	$296.18 million	$8.94	19.14

Fabrinet has higher revenue and earnings than SUNation Energy.

Risk and Volatility

SUNation Energy has a beta of 2.96, meaning that its stock price is 196% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fabrinet has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares SUNation Energy and Fabrinet’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
SUNation Energy	-17.55%	-373.78%	-19.77%
Fabrinet	10.44%	18.48%	13.68%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for SUNation Energy and Fabrinet, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
SUNation Energy	0	0	0	0	0.00
Fabrinet	0	4	3	0	2.43

Fabrinet has a consensus target price of $250.14, indicating a potential upside of 46.19%. Given Fabrinet’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Fabrinet is more favorable than SUNation Energy.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

4.2% of SUNation Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.4% of Fabrinet shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of SUNation Energy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Fabrinet shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Fabrinet beats SUNation Energy on 11 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About SUNation Energy

SUNation Energy Inc. is focused on local and regional solar, storage and energy services companies. Its portfolio of brands provides homeowners and businesses of all sizes with an end-to-end product offering spanning solar, battery storage and grid services. SUNation Energy Inc., formerly known as Pineapple Energy, is based in RONKONKOMA, N.Y.

About Fabrinet

Fabrinet provides optical packaging and precision optical, electro-mechanical, and electronic manufacturing services in North America, the Asia-Pacific, and Europe. The company offers a range of advanced optical and electro-mechanical capabilities in the manufacturing process, including process design and engineering, supply chain management, manufacturing, printed circuit board assembly, advanced packaging, integration, final assembly, and testing. Its products include switching products, including reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers, optical amplifiers, modulators, and other optical components and modules that enable network managers to route voice, video, and data communications traffic through fiber optic cables at various wavelengths, speeds, and over various distances. The company's products also comprise tunable lasers, transceivers, and transponders; and active optical cables, which provide high-speed interconnect capabilities for data centers and computing clusters, as well as Infiniband, Ethernet, fiber channel, and optical backplane connectivity. In addition, it provides solid state, diode-pumped, gas, and fiber lasers used in semiconductor processing, biotechnology and medical device, metrology, and material processing industries; and differential pressure, micro-gyro, fuel, and other sensors used in automobiles, as well as non-contact temperature measurement sensors for the medical industry. Further, the company designs and fabricates application-specific crystals, lenses, prisms, mirrors, laser components, and substrates; and other custom and standard borosilicate, clear fused quartz, and synthetic fused silica glass products. It serves original equipment manufacturers of optical communication components, modules and sub-systems, industrial lasers, automotive components, medical devices, and sensors. The company was incorporated in 1999 and is based in Grand Cayman, the Cayman Islands.