--- title: "Weekly Recap | NuScale Power +0.11%, most brokers rate it hold" type: "News" locale: "en" url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/296674542.md" description: "NuScale Power edged up 0.11% this week to close at $9.40, outperforming the S&P 500 by roughly 1.54 percentage points as the broader index fell 1.43%. The week traced a V-shaped recovery: shares opened at $9.49 on Monday (17 Aug), slid to a low of $8.58 on Tuesday (18 Aug), and hit the week’s trough of $8.53 on Wednesday (19 Aug) before staging a sharp rebound. The stock rallied through Thursday and Friday (21 Aug), closing near the session high of $9.645." datetime: "2026-08-22T07:00:28.000Z" locales: - [zh-CN](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/296674542.md) - [en](https://longbridge.com/en/news/296674542.md) - [zh-HK](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/296674542.md) generator: "portal-rs" --- # Weekly Recap | NuScale Power +0.11%, most brokers rate it hold ## The Week NuScale Power edged up 0.11% this week to close at $9.40, outperforming the S&P 500 by roughly 1.54 percentage points as the broader index fell 1.43%. The week traced a V-shaped recovery: shares opened at $9.49 on Monday (17 Aug), slid to a low of $8.58 on Tuesday (18 Aug), and hit the week’s trough of $8.53 on Wednesday (19 Aug) before staging a sharp rebound. The stock rallied through Thursday and Friday (21 Aug), closing near the session high of $9.645. The weekly amplitude reached 11.75%, with volumes roughly in line with the median, signalling a tug-of-war that ultimately tilted in favour of buyers. ## Key Events This week’s narrative centred on the intersection of AI data-centre power demand and nuclear energy. On Wednesday, a report flagged nuclear stocks as a key piece of the puzzle for meeting AI data-centre electricity needs, sparking an intraweek recovery of over 8% from the low. Thursday brought further discussion of Nvidia-packed data centres facing power constraints that no utility can reliably meet, with analysis pointing to nuclear as a potential beneficiary of the clean baseload gap. Also on Thursday, CFO Robert Ramsey Hamady disclosed the disposal of $189,800 in common shares; the filing did little to dent momentum, as the stock closed near weekly highs on Friday. ## Analyst Ratings As of this week, 19 brokers cover NuScale Power: five rate it buy, one rates it over, ten rate it hold, one rates it under, and one rates it sell, with one firm holding no opinion. The consensus rating is hold, and the consensus target price sits at $12.63, roughly 34.4% above the latest close of $9.40. Individual targets range from $6.00 to $20.00 — a wide spread that underscores deep disagreement on the commercialisation timeline for small modular reactors. Within the heavy electrical equipment industry, SMR ranks third among 20 companies by broker coverage breadth. ## The Week Ahead Tuesday (25 Aug) brings a crowded slate of US housing and consumer data: FHFA house price indices, the Case-Shiller 20-city composite, the Richmond Fed composite index, consumer confidence, and new home sales. Persistent softness in housing could reinforce rate-path expectations and shift the mood for growth names. For SMR, the immediate question is whether the AI data-centre power theme can sustain its momentum — or whether the stock needs a fresh catalyst to break out of the wide range it has traded in this week. ## In Short SMR closed a volatile week slightly higher, caught between the AI power-demand narrative and mixed signals from insider selling and wide analyst disagreement. Of 19 covering brokers, six carry buy or over ratings, while the consensus target sits more than 30% above spot — yet the extreme target range suggests the market is far from pricing in a consensus view on nuclear commercialisation. The latest session’s flow data shows large-lot money turning a modest net seller while small and medium orders leaned net buyer, leaving the retail-institutional mix tilted. The next leg likely hinges on whether AI data-centre policy tailwinds translate into tangible order pipelines, moving the stock from a theme trade to a fundamentals story. *This article is generated by LongbridgeAI from market data, for information only and not investment advice.* ### Related Stocks - [SMR.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/SMR.US.md) ## Related News & Research - [3 arguments for and against AI watermarks](https://longbridge.com/en/news/296205500.md) - [A mysterious free AI model is impressing developers. 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