Ormat Technologies (NYSE:ORA) and CBRE Acquisition (OTCMKTS:CBAHU) Head to Head Analysis

CBRE Acquisition (OTCMKTS:CBAHU) and Ormat Technologies (NYSE:ORA) are both transportation, communications, electric, gas, and sanitary services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares CBRE Acquisition and Ormat Technologies”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CBRE Acquisition	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Ormat Technologies	$890.25 million	4.36	$124.40 million	$1.96	32.75

Ormat Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than CBRE Acquisition.

Profitability

This table compares CBRE Acquisition and Ormat Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CBRE Acquisition	N/A	N/A	N/A
Ormat Technologies	13.33%	5.27%	2.40%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for CBRE Acquisition and Ormat Technologies, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CBRE Acquisition	0	0	0	0	0.00
Ormat Technologies	0	5	3	0	2.38

Ormat Technologies has a consensus target price of $82.25, suggesting a potential upside of 28.13%. Given Ormat Technologies’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ormat Technologies is more favorable than CBRE Acquisition.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

95.5% of Ormat Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Ormat Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Ormat Technologies beats CBRE Acquisition on 9 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About CBRE Acquisition

Altus Power, Inc. operates as a clean electrification company in the United States. It is involved in the on-site solar generation for commercial, industrial, and public customers; community solar; energy storage; and electric vehicle charging businesses. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Stamford, Connecticut.

About Ormat Technologies

Ormat Technologies, Inc. engages in the geothermal and recovered energy power business in the United States, Indonesia, Kenya, Turkey, Chile, Guatemala, Guadeloupe, New Zealand, Honduras, and internationally. It operates in three segments: Electricity, Product, and Energy Storage. The Electricity segment develops, builds, owns, and operates geothermal, solar photovoltaic, and recovered energy-based power plants; and sells electricity. The Product segment designs, manufactures, and sells equipment for geothermal and recovered energy-based electricity generation; and provides services relating to the engineering, procurement, construction, operation, and maintenance of geothermal and recovered energy-based power plants. This segment serves contractors; and owners and operators of interstate natural gas pipelines, gas processing plants, and cement plants, as well as companies in other energy-intensive industrial processes. The Energy Storage segment offers battery energy storage systems and related services. Ormat Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Reno, Nevada.