Comparing Sotera Health (NASDAQ:SHC) & Eurofins Scient (OTCMKTS:ERFSF)

Eurofins Scient (OTCMKTS:ERFSF) and Sotera Health (NASDAQ:SHC) are both medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, profitability, dividends, risk and institutional ownership.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Eurofins Scient and Sotera Health, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Eurofins Scient	0	2	1	0	2.33
Sotera Health	0	3	8	0	2.73

Sotera Health has a consensus price target of $20.14, suggesting a potential upside of 29.29%. Given Sotera Health’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Sotera Health is more favorable than Eurofins Scient.

Risk & Volatility

Eurofins Scient has a beta of 0.7, indicating that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sotera Health has a beta of 1.88, indicating that its share price is 88% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Eurofins Scient and Sotera Health’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Eurofins Scient	N/A	N/A	N/A
Sotera Health	6.70%	42.38%	6.91%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

91.0% of Sotera Health shares are owned by institutional investors. 47.6% of Sotera Health shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Eurofins Scient and Sotera Health”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Eurofins Scient	$8.25 billion	1.71	$537.29 million	N/A	N/A
Sotera Health	$1.16 billion	3.82	$77.94 million	$0.27	57.70

Eurofins Scient has higher revenue and earnings than Sotera Health.

Summary

Sotera Health beats Eurofins Scient on 10 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Eurofins Scient

Eurofins Scientific SE, together with its subsidiaries, provides various analytical testing and laboratory services worldwide. The company offers a portfolio of various analytical methods and tests to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability, and purity of various products. It provides services such as agroscience, including biological assessment, consumer and human, and environmental safety, product chemistry, regulatory consultancy, and seed services; agro testing; assurance, such as product inspection, auditing, certification, training and consultation of food, consumer products, healthcare and cosmetics, and food supplements; biopharma, and clinical diagnostics. In addition, the company offers consumer product testing, which include sustainability, expert services and regulatory, consumer research and sensory evaluation, audits, testing, certifications and approvals, inspections, and training courses for various industries; cosmetics and personal care; environment testing, including water, air, soil, waste, and other products testing; and food and feed testing that include allergen, GMO, grain, meat, nano material, pesticides, and residual DNA testing. Further, it offers audit and certification, training and consulting; food irradiation and labelling, heavy metals, carbohydrates, radioactivity, nutritional analysis, microbiolody, and testing for persistent organic pollutants, veterinary drug residue, dioxins and organic contaminants, pesticides, mycotoxins, and vitamins, as well as analyses for genetic modifications. Additionally, the company provides forensic, genomic, maritime, materials and engineering, REACH, and other services. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.

About Sotera Health

Sotera Health Company engages in the provision of sterilization, lab testing, and advisory services in the United States and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Sterigenics, Nordion, and Nelson Labs. It provides mission-critical end-to-end sterilization services, including gamma and electron beam irradiation, and ethylene oxide processing, as well as designs, installs, and maintains gamma irradiation systems. The company also provides microbiological and analytical chemistry testing, as well as technical assistance, regulatory consulting, and advisory services. It serves medical devices, pharmaceuticals, food safety, agricultural products, cancer treatment, and high-performance materials industries, as well as commercial, advanced, and specialty application industries. The company was formerly known as Sotera Health Topco, Inc. and changed its name to Sotera Health Company in October 2020. Sotera Health Company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Broadview Heights, Ohio.