Comparing CDT Environmental Technology Investment (NASDAQ:CDTG) & Pentair (NYSE:PNR)

CDT Environmental Technology Investment (NASDAQ:CDTG) and Pentair (NYSE:PNR) are both business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Risk & Volatility

CDT Environmental Technology Investment has a beta of -4.38, suggesting that its stock price is 538% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pentair has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

92.4% of Pentair shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Pentair shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares CDT Environmental Technology Investment and Pentair”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CDT Environmental Technology Investment	$29.76 million	0.18	$1.45 million	N/A	N/A
Pentair	$4.13 billion	4.18	$625.40 million	$3.94	26.74

Pentair has higher revenue and earnings than CDT Environmental Technology Investment.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings for CDT Environmental Technology Investment and Pentair, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CDT Environmental Technology Investment	1	0	0	0	1.00
Pentair	1	4	11	2	2.78

Pentair has a consensus price target of $121.07, indicating a potential upside of 14.93%. Given Pentair’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Pentair is more favorable than CDT Environmental Technology Investment.

Profitability

This table compares CDT Environmental Technology Investment and Pentair’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CDT Environmental Technology Investment	N/A	N/A	N/A
Pentair	15.84%	21.83%	12.10%

Summary

Pentair beats CDT Environmental Technology Investment on 13 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About CDT Environmental Technology Investment

CDT Environmental Technology Investment Holdings Limited designs, develops, manufactures, sells, installs, operates, and maintains sewage treatment systems in China. The company sells complete sewage treatment systems; constructs rural sewage treatment plants; installs systems; and provides on-going operation and maintenance services for systems and plants in China for municipalities and enterprise clients. It provides sewage treatment services, such as on-site or in-situ septic tank treatment services in the urban and rural areas for municipalities, and residential and business property management companies. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Shenzhen, China.

About Pentair

Pentair plc provides various water solutions in the United States, Western Europe, China, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Australia, Canada, and Japan. The company operates through three segments: Flow, Water Solutions, and Pool. The Flow segment designs, manufactures, and sells fluid treatment and pump products and systems, including pressure vessels, gas recovery solutions, membrane bioreactors, wastewater reuse systems and advanced membrane filtration, separation systems, water disposal pumps, water supply pumps, fluid transfer pumps, turbine pumps, solid handling pumps, and agricultural spray nozzles for fluid delivery, ion exchange, desalination, food and beverage, separation technologies in the oil and gas industry, residential and municipal wells, water treatment, wastewater solids handling, pressure boosting, circulation and transfer, fire suppression, flood control, agricultural irrigation, and crop spray in residential, commercial, and industrial markets. The Water Solutions segment provides commercial and residential water treatment products and systems, including pressure tanks, control valves, activated carbon products, commercial ice machines, conventional filtration products, and point-of-entry and point-of-use water treatment systems, as well as installation and preventative services for use in residential whole home water filtration, drinking water filtration, and water softening solutions, as well as commercial total water management and filtration in foodservice operations. The Pool segment provides residential and commercial pool equipment and accessories comprising pumps, filters, heaters, lights, automatic controls, automatic cleaners, maintenance equipment, and pool accessories for applications in residential and commercial pool maintenance, pool repair, renovation, service, and construction and aquaculture solutions. Pentair plc was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.