FTEK (Fuel Tech) Risk Assessment

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FTEK Fuel Tech Inc FTEK
70 GF Score
Price $1.43
GF Value $1.14
Valuation Modestly Overvalued
! 4 Warning Signs
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What is Fuel Tech Risk Assessment?

Risk Assessment represents the investment risk of a stock derived from our exclusive method. It suggests how risky the investment opportunity is based on the valuation and the fundamental performance of the stock. It is derived from following key aspects:

1. GuruFocus internally developed valuations of the stock, such as GF valuation.
2. Quality Rank, a business quality indicator developed by GuruFocus.
3. Fundamental performance: Piotroski F-Score, Altman Z-Score, Beneish M-Score, etc.
4. Growth opportunities: 5-year revenue growth rate, 5-Year EPS without NRI Growth Rate, etc.

Value investors are always willing to find undervalued stocks. However, not all the undervalued stocks are good deals, we should also be careful of how risky the investment opportunity is. We believe that if the company's financial strength and profitability are strong, and the stock price is within a reasonable range of the GF valuation, or stock has a high return with its price being undervalued, then it might be a good investment opportunity with low risk.

Based on those aspects listed above, GuruFocus believes the risk assessment of Fuel Tech is: High Risk: High uncertainty with risk-return tradeoff.

Fuel Tech  (NAS:FTEK) Risk Assessment Explanation

Based on the four aspects listed above, GuruFocus provides the following 7 evaluations:

All-in-One Screener Examples (1)
Low Risk: Strong fundamentals, worth long-term holding
Moderate Risk: Sensitive, better choose undervalued stock
High Risk: High uncertainty with risk-return tradeoff
High Risk: Good fundamentals, beware of shrinking business
High Risk: Sensitive to economic or industry trends
High Risk: High uncertainty
No Data: Cannot be evaluated

(1) These are some simple examples. You can access our Risk Assessment filter under All-in-One Screener’s Fundamental tab and set your own criteria.

Fuel Tech Risk Assessment Related Terms

FTEK vs SCWO, BCHT, CLIR: Risk Assessment Comparison

For the Pollution & Treatment Controls subindustry, Fuel Tech's Risk Assessment, along with its competitors' market caps and Risk Assessment data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

Fuel Tech Risk Assessment vs Industrial Products Industry

For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Fuel Tech's Risk Assessment distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Fuel Tech's Risk Assessment falls into.


FTEK
70GF Score
Fuel Tech Inc FTEK
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Is Fuel Tech (FTEK) Overvalued in 2026?

Based on GuruFocus' analysis, Fuel Tech stock appears to be overvalued. The current stock price of $1.43 is trading 25.4% above its estimated GF Value™ of $1.14. GuruFocus considers Fuel Tech to be Modestly Overvalued.

Key valuation signals for FTEK:

  • Risk Assessment:
  • GF Value™: $1.14 vs. price of $1.43 (25.4% above fair value)
  • GF Score™: 70/100 with 4 warning signs

No single metric tells the full story. See the FTEK stock analysis page for a complete view including 30-year financials, guru trades, and insider activity.

Fuel Tech Business Description

Other Exchanges FUE1:Germany
Address 27601 Bella Vista Parkway, Warrenville, IL, USA, 60555-1617
Fuel Tech Inc is a technology provider of boiler optimization, efficiency improvement, and air pollution reduction to utility and industrial customers. The company operates in two segments, Air Pollution Control and Fuel Chem. The Air Pollution Control technology segment includes technologies to reduce NOx emissions in flue gas from boilers, incinerators, furnaces, and other stationary combustion sources. The Fuel Chem technology segment uses chemical processes in combination with Computational Fluid Dynamics and Chemical Kinetics Modeling for boiler modeling for the control of slagging, fouling, corrosion, opacity and other sulfur trioxide-related issues in furnaces and boilers through the addition of chemicals into the furnace using TIFI Targeted In-Furnace Injection technology.
70GF Score

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$1.43
Price
$1.14
GF Value