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How to Value Nuclear Stocks: Operators, Fuel and Developers

Nuclear stocks range from reactor operators to developers with no revenue yet. Which multiple fits each, and when no percentile is the honest answer.

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Nuclear stocks range from utilities that have run reactors for decades to developers that have not sold any power yet. One multiple cannot rank them all, so start by asking which kind of company you are looking at.

Four kinds of nuclear company

KindWhere revenue comes fromStart withThen check
Plant operatorsSelling power from running reactorsP/E and EV/SalesPower prices and long-term contracts
Fuel suppliersUranium sales and enrichment contractsEV/SalesDelivery timing, which makes yearly sales lumpy
Reactor suppliersReactors, pumps and parts, often for the Navy tooP/E and EV/SalesHow much of revenue is nuclear
Reactor developersLittle or none yetNo ranked multipleLicensing dates, cash and share issuance
EV/Sales divides enterprise value (market value plus net debt) by trailing twelve-month revenue.

Operators: earnings moved more than sales

At our October 23, 2026 review (latest weekly observation from the week of October 19), Constellation (CEG), Vistra (VST) and PSEG (PEG) sat between the 22nd and 32nd percentiles of their own five-year P/E ranges. On EV/Sales they sat between the 23rd and 60th. When the earnings rank sits well below the sales rank, profit per dollar of revenue is usually higher than it was in most of those weeks. Prices also fell: Constellation’s weekly close was 35% below its highest of the past year.

A low P/E rank after earnings rise can also mean the market doubts those earnings will last. Operator profits depend on power prices and on contracts that regulators can limit.

Developers: when there is no revenue to rank

Oklo (OKLO) had enterprise value more than 1,000 times its trailing revenue, so we show no sales multiple. It also has too few quarterly filings with revenue for a weekly history, so it has no percentile. That is a statement about the data, not a judgment about the company.

NuScale (SMR) shows the opposite trap. Its weekly close was 88% below its highest of the past year, yet its EV/Sales of 83.2x ranked at the 68th percentile, because trailing revenue fell 81%. When price and revenue fall together, a sales multiple can stay high. Read revenue growth beside the rank. The missing-percentile guide covers the rules behind an empty rank.

Fuel and suppliers: read the mix

CompanyEV/SalesPercentileRevenue vs a year ago
LEU3.4x68th+8%
UEC84.0x66th-44%
BWXT3.7x48th+23%
CW5.0x70th+11%
Trailing twelve-month EV/Sales and five-year percentiles, StockResearch dataset, review of October 23, 2026.

Uranium Energy’s revenue depends on when it chooses to sell uranium, so its sales multiple jumps between years. Cameco files annual reports as a Canadian issuer, so we show a market snapshot without a rank. BWX Technologies and Curtiss-Wright sell to the Navy as well as to power plants, and GE Vernova sells far more gas turbines and grid equipment than reactors. Its ranked history starts after its 2024 spin-off.

Where to compare them

The Nuclear theme groups these companies into operators, developers, fuel suppliers and reactor suppliers, with a switch between EV/Sales and P/E. The nuclear screen lists them together, and the uranium screen narrows to mining and enrichment.

Put this to work

Compare operators, fuel suppliers and reactor makers with their own history, one measure at a time.

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Seventeen of 20 companies have ranked EV/Sales in our Oct 22, 2026 snapshot. The remaining three stay visible with their data limits.

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