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Plug Power PLUG
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 67% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen. No fair value estimate for now: its free cash flow is negative.
- Fair value est.
- n/a
- Market Value
- $1.40price −2%
- Off 52-wk high
- −67%
- Risk vs market
- Highbeta 2.24
3 bullish · 5 bearish See why
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $1.37
- PriceFri Oct 30 close$1.37you are here
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$1.37at the price
- Market Valueavg paid since Oct 15$1.40+2.2%
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$4.14+202.2%
Fair value estimate
No estimate for PLUG: negative free cash flow. We’d rather show nothing than a made-up number.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 30 to Oct 30, 252 sessions). Beta = how much PLUG moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Swings much more than the market, and its own price swings are 6.2× the S&P 500’s.
- Beta vs S&P 500
- 2.24
- Volatility
- 79% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.36
- Correlation QQQ
- 0.39
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 3 of 5
ProfitabilityGross margin widened to −34.1% in FY2025 from −57.0% in FY2023 (SEC filings).
GrowthSales grew 11% to $744M over the last 12 months vs the 12 months before (SEC filings).
GrowthSales grew 0.4% a year over the last three fiscal years, above the −7.3% median for the 44 Energy companies we cover.
Top bearish points 5 of 5
ValuationFree cash flow is negative (−$523M over the last 12 months), so there’s no cash-flow value under the price.
ProfitabilityOperating margin narrowed to −150.7% in FY2023 from −94.8% in FY2023 (SEC filings).
Balance sheetOperating income covers interest only -17.9× over the last 12 months.
ProfitabilityLost $1.6B over the last 12 months (net income, SEC filings).
QualityDoesn’t pass our quality screen: no positive free cash flow; ROE under 12% and ROIC under 10%; debt load unclear or high.
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on Plug Power in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 1, 9:09 PM ET.
Compare with peers
Closest in size in Energy
All fundamentals
FCF yield -26.2% · ROE -145% · Sales +11%
Valuation
- P/E
- n/aloss over the last 12 months
- Price / FCF
- n/anegative free cash flow
- FCF yield
- −26.2%
- EV / EBITDA
- n/aD&A or debt not tagged in SEC data
- Price / sales
- 2.69×
- Price / book
- 3.44×
- Market cap
- $2.0Blisted
- Enterprise value
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $744M
- Sales growth, 12 months
- +10.6%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- +0.4%/yrfrom FY2022
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- −$1.32
- EPS growth, last FY
- n/afewer than two years of diluted EPS
- Net income, 12 months
- −$1.6B
- Net income growth
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Profitability
- Gross margin
- −18.5%
- Operating margin
- −172.8%
- Net margin
- n/an/m
- FCF margin
- −70.3%
- Return on equity
- −145%
- Return on invested capital
- n/aoperating income, debt, equity or cash not tagged
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $162M
- Total debt
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Net cash
- n/acash or debt not tagged in SEC data
- Debt / equity
- n/adebt or equity not tagged in SEC data
- Interest coverage
- -17.9×operating income / interest
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- −$523M
- FCF growth, 12 months
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Dividend yield
- 0%
- Payout ratio
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Buybacks, 12 months
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Share count, 1 year
- +23.5%diluted shares vs a year ago
- Stock-based comp
- $53M
Trailing 12 months to Jun 30, 2026; balance sheet at Jun 30, 2026. From Plug Power’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
Valuation details
MV $1.40
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 27 · 5 days −0.7%
The business
FCF $-0.5B · Sales +2%
- Free cash flow, 12 months−$0.5B
- Free-cash-flow yield−26.0%
- Gross margin−25%
- Operating margin−25%
- Return on invested capital−10%
- Return on equity−145%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+2%
Next report
Nov 9
- DateMon Nov 9, after the close
- Consensus EPS($0.07)
- Year-ago EPS($0.12)
- QuarterSep/2026
From Nasdaq’s earnings calendar. A report resets Market Value.
Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.
PLUG is outside our quality screen
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