NuScale Power is a pre-revenue small modular reactor developer burning cash at 868% of revenue with a hard momentum block and 20% short interest, while analyst targets imply 44% upside driven by its concentrated customer relationship with RoPower and ENTRA1 — a high-risk speculative position with no near-term earnings floor.
Thesis pillars
- Smr Analyst Target Upside Gap↓Deteriorating
- Ropower Entra1 Concentration Risk↑Improving
- Cash Burn Quality Floor Failure→Stable
- +1 more pillar — see the Why tab for full reasoning
NuScale Power Corporation (SMR) Stock Analysis
Recovery setup
Industrials · Specialty Industrial Machinery
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $8.11: a dimension score below its floor triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 4.9/10 and A.R:R 4.1:1 is above the 1.5:1 BUY gate. Specifically: High short interest: 23%; Below-average business quality; Negative price momentum.
NuScale Power Corporation develops small modular reactor technology based on its NuScale Power Module (NPM), which generates 77 MWe; the NRC granted a Standard Design Approval for the 6-unit 77 MWe design in May 2025. The company has not entered into any binding contract to... Read more
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $8.11: a dimension score below its floor triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 4.9/10 and A.R:R 4.1:1 is above the 1.5:1 BUY gate. Specifically: High short interest: 23%; Below-average business quality; Negative price momentum. Chart setup: Death cross but MACD improving, RSI 41. Score 4.9/10, moderate confidence.
Passes 5/8 gates (favorable risk/reward ratio, clean insider activity, no SEC red flags, semi cycle peak clear, materials cycle peak clear). Fails on weak momentum and death cross (50MA < 200MA). Suitability: speculative.
About NuScale Power Corporation
About NuScale Power Corporation
NuScale Power Corporation's 6-unit 77 MWe NPM design received NRC Standard Design Approval in May 2025, the company's second SDA following its September 2020 approval for a 12-module 50 MWe design, making NuScale the only SMR developer with any NRC-approved design. Since 2007, more than $1.8 billion has been invested in NuScale technology, including $578.3 million from the DOE. The company holds 513 issued patents globally with 268 additional patent applications pending.
NuScale intends to sell NPMs and a recurring suite of services — licensing support, testing, training, fuel supply, and program management — expected to begin generating revenue approximately five years before a plant's commercial operation date. Potential customers include governments, utilities, state-owned enterprises, and technology companies. Long-lead manufacturing for the first 12 NPM upper reactor vessels has been placed with Doosan Enerbility Co., Ltd. in South Korea, with forgings, tubing, and weld materials in production. NuScale's exclusive global commercialization and marketing partner is ENTRA1, which is in negotiations with the Tennessee Valley Authority to deploy up to six 12-module plants in TVA's seven-state region. Fluor Corporation is also a strategic investor and partner in the commercialization effort. The company has not yet entered into any binding delivery contract.
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NuScale faces competition from nuclear reactor developers in China and Russia that already operate commercial SMRs, which could give those competitors marketing advantages in third-country markets, particularly given U.S. nuclear technology export licensing requirements under section 123 of the Atomic Energy Act. Within the United States, NuScale's NRC-approved designs hold a regulatory head start, but the 10-K notes that competing technologies — water-cooled SMRs, fast neutron reactors, high-temperature gas reactors, and molten salt reactors — are all under development. The company's only formal customer is RoPower Nuclear S.A. in Romania, with no binding contract yet signed.
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From NuScale Power Corporation's most recent 10-K filing, extracted June 11, 2026.
Recent developments
updated 2026-07-27Recent Developments — NuScale Power Corporation
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- NEWS Barclays Maintains Equal-Weight on NuScale Power, Lowers Price Target to $11 — benzinga Jul 23, 2026 negative
- NEWS Truist Securities Initiates Coverage On NuScale Power with Hold Rating, Announces Price Target of $10 — benzinga Jul 14, 2026
- NEWS Jim Cramer: 'Go For' AST SpaceMobile, Power Plant Maker 'Too Speculative' — benzinga Jul 2, 2026 neutral
- NEWS NuScale Power Awards Contract To Mirion Technologies Unit Paragon To Complete Final Design Development Of A Highly Integ — benzinga Jun 17, 2026 positive
- NEWS NuScale Stock Gains As It Opens Latest Nuclear Training Center In Virginia — benzinga Jun 12, 2026 positive
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- HIGHCustomerRoPower10-K Item 1: 'The Company has been working with one customer and one prospective customer. The customer is RoPower Nuclear S.A.'
- HIGHcounterpartyENTRA110-K Item 1: 'ENTRA1, is NuScale’s exclusive global strategic partner for commercialization and development of power plants utilizing NPMs'
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Rating Breakdown
4 floor-breakers·1 ceiling hit
Quality below the gate floor. Component breakdown shows what dragged the score down.static
Price action weak — below key moving averages, no momentum carry. Needs a base before trend-continuation setups apply.static
No near-term catalyst priced in. Thesis progression will come from fundamentals grinding, not event reaction.static
Ranks in the bottom of its industry peers on the composite signal. Better names in the same sector exist.static
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Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $8.11: a dimension score below its floor triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 4.9/10 and A.R:R 4.1:1 is above the 1.5:1 BUY gate. Specifically: High short interest: 23%; Below-average business quality; Negative price momentum. Chart setup: Death cross but MACD improving, RSI 41. Prior stop was $7.57. Score 4.9/10, moderate confidence.
Take-profit target: $13.11 (+61.0% upside). Prior stop was $7.57. Stop-loss: $7.57.
Concentration risk — Customer: RoPower; Concentration risk — Counterparty: ENTRA1; Quality below floor (1.6 < 4.0).
NuScale Power Corporation trades at a P/E of N/A (forward -11.3). TrendMatrix value score: 9.0/10. Verdict: Sell.
22 analysts cover SMR with a consensus score of 3.4/5. Average price target: $15.
What does NuScale Power Corporation do?NuScale Power Corporation develops small modular reactor technology based on its NuScale Power Module (NPM), which...
NuScale Power Corporation develops small modular reactor technology based on its NuScale Power Module (NPM), which generates 77 MWe; the NRC granted a Standard Design Approval for the 6-unit 77 MWe design in May 2025. The company has not entered into any binding contract to deliver NPMs; it works with one customer (RoPower Nuclear in Romania) and ENTRA1 as exclusive global commercialization partner, supported by over $1.8 billion in cumulative investment since 2007 including $578.3 million from the DOE.