Maxeon Solar Technologies (NASDAQ:MAXN) vs. Nano Labs (NASDAQ:NA) Financial Review

Maxeon Solar Technologies (NASDAQ:MAXN) and Nano Labs (NASDAQ:NA) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, risk, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Maxeon Solar Technologies and Nano Labs”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Maxeon Solar Technologies	$1.12 billion	0.00	-$275.83 million	($774.00)	-0.01
Nano Labs	$50.81 million	0.44	-$35.70 million	N/A	N/A

Nano Labs has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Maxeon Solar Technologies.

Profitability

This table compares Maxeon Solar Technologies and Nano Labs’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Maxeon Solar Technologies	-43.85%	-1,598.11%	-37.15%
Nano Labs	N/A	N/A	N/A

Institutional and Insider Ownership

47.7% of Maxeon Solar Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.7% of Nano Labs shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Maxeon Solar Technologies 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.

Volatility and Risk

Maxeon Solar Technologies has a beta of 1.42, suggesting that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nano Labs has a beta of 2.3, suggesting that its stock price is 130% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Maxeon Solar Technologies and Nano Labs, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Maxeon Solar Technologies	5	3	0	0	1.38
Nano Labs	0	0	0	0	0.00

Maxeon Solar Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $26,072.00, indicating a potential upside of 283,599.67%. Given Maxeon Solar Technologies’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Maxeon Solar Technologies is more favorable than Nano Labs.

Summary

Nano Labs beats Maxeon Solar Technologies on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Maxeon Solar Technologies

Maxeon Solar Technologies, Ltd. designs, manufactures, markets, and sells solar panels and related solar system components worldwide. The company provides interdigitated back contact and shingled solar cells and panels under the SunPower brand. It offers its products to dealers, project developers, system integrators, distributors, resellers, and residential and small-scale commercial customers. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is headquartered in Singapore.

About Nano Labs

Nano Labs Ltd operates as a fabless integrated circuit design company and product solution provider in the People's Republic of China and internationally. It develops high throughput computing and high-performance computing chips. The company also offers distributed computing and storage solutions, smart network interface cards, and vision computing chips, as well as distributed rendering technology. In addition, it engages in the research and development of software. Its customers include enterprises and individual buyers. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Hangzhou, the People's Republic of China.