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Sunrun Inc.RUNCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Information Technology›Semiconductors

Installs and finances residential solar panel and battery storage systems, mostly through leases and power-purchase agreements.

Momentum neutral 56
Mkt cap
$2.40B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
97%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$99.6M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
38.7×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
-6.6 pp
WACC 6.9%
Hurdle
n/a
no reverse DCF
Next earnings
110 days
24 Feb 2027
Close · USD$9.98
1D+1.1%
1W+33.4%
1M+31.5%
3M+1.1%
6M-31.7%
YTD-45.8%
1Y-51.5%
ATR %6.5%
Beta2.02
52w lowhigh54.5% off high

What Sunrun does

Installs and finances residential solar panel and battery storage systems, mostly through leases and power-purchase agreements.

Owns the systems on customers' roofs and collects monthly payments for 20 years or more, so most of its value sits in contracts that pay out over decades. It funds installations by raising money from investors and lenders and relies on tax credits, so interest rates and tax policy matter as much as installation volumes. A growing share of new customers also add a battery.

Products and services

  • Residential solar installation
  • Home battery storage
  • Solar lease/PPA financing

Customers

  • US homeowners

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Consumer discretionary/energy
  • Residential solar
  • Home solar installation and financing

What could go right

  • Rising electricity rates favor solar economics
  • Battery storage adoption growth

What could go wrong

  • Interest-rate sensitivity of lease/loan financing
  • Policy risk (net metering, tax credits)

Moat: narrow (scale, distribution, brand). Largest US residential solar installer, with financing and sales-channel scale smaller installers can't match.

Headquarters: San Francisco, California, US · Founded: 2007 · Employees: 9,059

Named competitors

Sunrun at a glance

Size Sunrun (RUN) is a United States Information Technology company (Semiconductors) with a market value of $2.40B, the 1681st largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $9.98 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares fell 31.7%, against -29.1% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 11th highest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 63.2% over the last twelve months (peer median +19.6%); the operating margin is 2.5% (peer median 9.1%).

Valuation It trades at 38.7× forward earnings against a peer median of 28.3× (8th most expensive of 18).

Capital Return on invested capital runs 6.6 points below its cost of capital (6.9% WACC).

Credit Sunrun has 1 bond outstanding ($483M).

Short interest Short interest is 29.8% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 24 Feb 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

507510012511 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026Peer median 70RUN 69
Six months, rebased to 100: Sunrun against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Sunrun financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$3.48B$2.96B$2.04B$2.26B$2.32B
Revenue growth—+45%-10%-3%—
Gross profit$1.12B$792M$245M$156M$285M
EBITDA$910M$695M$140M-$272M-$203M
Net income$405M$452M-$2.85B-$1.60B$173M
Free cash flow-$2.21B-$2.92B-$3.47B-$3.43B-$2.86B
Capital expenditure$2.01B$2.50B$2.70B$2.61B$2.01B
Total debt$15.2B$14.8B$13.1B$11.2B$8.87B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Sunrun competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-50%-25%0%+25%-40%-20%0%+20%000990553630260027456883526051113277688270NVTS6032906510PENG7856OUST688123300102002506AMBARUN6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Sunrun is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

0%+50%+100%20×40×60×80×000990553630260027456883526051113006136882706032907856688123300102POWIAMBARUNRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Sunrun is the large dot.

Sunrun competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (RUN vs TSLA vs SEDG)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Sunrun RUN$2.40B-32%+63%2%38.7×n/a
Tesla TSLA$1.42T-16%+8%4%176.4×n/a
SolarEdge Technologies SEDG$1.69B-33%+26%-6%n/a11.4%

How Sunrun compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Sunrun against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureRUNPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+31.5%-20.3%highest of 21
6-month return-31.7%-29.1%11th highest of 21
Distance from 52-week high-54.5%-56.8%9th highest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)+63.2%+19.6%3rd highest of 21
Operating margin2.5%9.1%9th lowest of 21
Forward P/E38.7×28.3×8th most expensive of 18
ROIC minus cost of capital-6.6 pp-2.3 pp7th lowest of 21
EV / EBITDA20.0×12.9×3rd most expensive of 6
Net debt / EBITDA15.5×-1.9×most indebted of 7

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Sunrun RUNUnited States$2.40B-32%+63%2%38.7×n/an/a
DB HiTek 000990.KSSouth Korea$2.41B-48%+29%21%8.9×2.3%+8.3%
Acter 5536.TWOTaiwan$2.39B-26%+28%16%10.0×-6.0%+24.3%
Holy Stone Enterprise 3026.TWTaiwan$2.39B+91%+17%2%21.0×n/an/a
MLS 002745.SZChina$2.36B+11%+19%-4%24.0×2.4%+0.1%
Hefei Chipmore Technology 688352.SSChina$2.45B+7%-1%7%53.1×n/an/a
Wuxi NCE Power 605111.SSChina$2.45B-3%+28%19%30.4×27.2%+14.5%
Gpixel Changchun Microelectronics 3277.HKHong Kong$2.45B-48%+27%33%28.0×6.9%+9.7%
Shanghai Fullhan Microelectronics 300613.SZChina$2.35B+14%+91%26%43.1×n/an/a
Great Microwave Technology 688270.SSChina$2.46B-41%+8%32%69.6×48.7%+23.2%
NVTS NVTSUnited States$2.32B-53%-29%-273%n/an/an/a
StarPower Semiconductor 603290.SSChina$2.50B-33%+4%1%76.8×26.3%+33.0%
Chunghwa Precision Test Tech 6510.TWOTaiwan$2.30B-37%+24%32%28.3×24.4%+2.7%
PENG PENGUnited States$2.52B-5%+26%10%9.2×n/an/a
Hermes Testing Solutions 7856.TWOTaiwan$2.29B-32%+52%12%46.2×52.1%+51.8%
OUST OUSTUnited States$2.54B+38%+64%-29%n/an/an/a
Giantec Semiconductor 688123.SSChina$2.27B-23%+13%22%23.3×39.2%+19.8%
Xiamen Changelight 300102.SZChina$2.26B-50%-38%-2%71.3×34.6%+21.1%
GCL System Integration Technology 002506.SZChina$2.26B-39%-32%-10%n/a31.8%+20.8%
POWI POWIUnited States$2.25B-45%+2%8%22.9×35.9%-1.9%
Ambarella AMBAUnited States$2.58B-23%+20%-15%66.0×n/an/a

Sunrun bonds and credit

Sunrun has 1 bond outstanding with $483M face value.

Every bond, yield and spread in the cockpit →

Questions

Who are Sunrun's main competitors?
Named competitors: Tesla Energy (TSLA), SolarEdge Technologies (SEDG), Local/regional solar installers (private or unlisted). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes DB HiTek (000990.KS), Acter (5536.TWO), Holy Stone Enterprise (3026.TW), MLS (002745.SZ), Hefei Chipmore Technology (688352.SS), Wuxi NCE Power (605111.SS).
Is Sunrun expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 38.7× against a peer median of 28.3×, 8th most expensive of 18 in its peer set.
How has Sunrun stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned -31.7% against -29.1% for the median peer; over one year -51.5%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.