Financial Comparison: Graco (NYSE:GGG) versus CleanTech Alpha (OTCMKTS:GERS)

Graco (NYSE:GGG) and CleanTech Alpha (OTCMKTS:GERS) are both industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, earnings and valuation.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

93.9% of Graco shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of Graco shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of CleanTech Alpha shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Graco and CleanTech Alpha, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Graco	0	5	2	0	2.29
CleanTech Alpha	0	0	0	0	0.00

Graco currently has a consensus target price of $95.00, indicating a potential upside of 15.01%. Given Graco’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Graco is more favorable than CleanTech Alpha.

Profitability

This table compares Graco and CleanTech Alpha’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Graco	23.53%	19.54%	15.86%
CleanTech Alpha	N/A	N/A	N/A

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Graco and CleanTech Alpha”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Graco	$2.24 billion	5.98	$521.84 million	$3.18	25.97
CleanTech Alpha	N/A	N/A	N/A	$0.00	N/A

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

Summary

Graco beats CleanTech Alpha on 11 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Graco

Graco Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets systems and equipment used to move, measure, control, dispense, and spray fluid and powder materials worldwide. The Contractor segment offers sprayers to apply paint to walls and other structures; two-component proportioning systems that are used to spray polyurethane foam and polyurea coatings; and viscous coatings to roofs, as well as markings on roads, parking lots, athletic fields, and floors. The Industrial segment provides liquid finishing equipment, paint circulating and supply pumps, paint circulating advanced control systems, plural component coating proportioners, and accessories and spare parts; equipment that pumps, meters, mixes and dispenses sealant, adhesive, and composite materials; and gel-coat equipment, chop and wet-out systems, resin transfer molding systems and applicators, and precision dispensing solutions. It also offers powder finishing products to coat powder finishing on metals under the Gema and SAT brands. The Process segment provides pumps to move and dispense chemicals, water, wastewater, petroleum, food, lubricants, and other fluids; pressure valves used in the oil and natural gas industry, other industrial processes, and research facilities; and chemical injection pumping solutions for injection of chemicals into producing oil wells and pipelines. It also supplies pumps, hose reels, meters, valves, and accessories for fast oil change facilities, service garages, fleet service centers, automobile dealerships, auto parts stores, truck builders, and heavy equipment service centers; and systems, components, and accessories for the automatic lubrication of bearings, gears, and generators in industrial and commercial equipment, compressors, turbines, and on- and off-road vehicles. It sells its products through distributors, original equipment manufacturers, and home center channels, as well as to end-users. The company was incorporated in 1926 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

About CleanTech Alpha

CleanTech Alpha Corporation develops and commercializes clean technologies that facilitate the use of natural resources for the ethanol industry in the United States. The company’s corn oil extraction technology integrates into the back-end of existing dry mill corn ethanol plants to extract and recover inedible crude corn oil, which is used in the production of advanced carbon-neutral liquid fuels and other biomass-derived alternatives to fossil fuel-based products. The company licenses its technologies to ethanol producers. The company was formerly known as GreenShift Corporation and changed its name to CleanTech Alpha Corporation in August 2021. CleanTech Alpha Corporation was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.