Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (CLNE)
Energy
- Fundamental
- 2
- Sentiment
- 3
- Technical
- 2
Do Nothing: fundamentalScore is 2 (below required floor of 3); strategy requires fundamentalScore >= 3 before any bullish entry, and avgDollarVolume20 is only $3.39M versus the $5.00M liquidity floor.
Company overview
Clean Energy Fuels Corp. provides natural gas as an alternative fuel, focusing on RNG, CNG, and LNG for medium and heavy-duty transportation in the U.S. and Canada. The company designs, constructs, and maintains fueling stations and participates in the environmental credit market. It serves diverse clients including trucking, airports, and government fleets.
Fundamental
weakClean Energy Fuels shows operational improvements but remains highly leveraged with negative profitability and coverage ratios.
Clean Energy Fuels is stabilizing operationally in 2026 (improving quarterly results and positive adjusted EBITDA in the latest quarter), but profitability is still negative and leverage looks heavy versus current earnings power. Liquidity is adequate (current ratio ~2.5; cash and short-term investments ~ $140M at 2026-06-30), yet risk metrics remain stressed (interest coverage negative; Altman Z-Score below distress thresholds). Valuation is not expensive on EV/Sales and free-cash-flow yield, but discounted-cash-flow outputs and high EV/EBITDA do not provide a clear margin of safety.
Sentiment
fairInsider buying and positive RNG developments are offset by cautious analyst views and ongoing losses.
Near-term narrative is dominated by post-Q2 digestion (Aug 6) where revenue-beat headlines are offset by ongoing losses, alongside incremental bullish RNG agreement/contract headlines and a CEO open-market purchase. Media sentiment has cooled versus the prior 30–90d window (polarity_score ~+0.12 vs ~+0.42), and a moderate red-flag cap applied due to conflicting bullish operational/insider signals versus bearish sell-side framing.
Technical
weakThe stock is attempting a bounce in a broader bearish trend, with key moving averages acting as resistance.
CLNE rebounded from the 2026-08-07 washout and is back above its 9EMA and daily VWAP, but it still sits below EMA21, SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, with MACD remaining below zero and ADX above 33. The chart reads as a bounce attempt inside a strong broader downtrend, not a confirmed bullish swing trend.
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