Perma-Fix Environmental Services (NASDAQ:PESI – Get Free Report) and 374Water (NASDAQ:SCWO – Get Free Report) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends and risk.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
25.5% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.2% of 374Water shares are held by institutional investors. 8.4% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 18.5% of 374Water shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Perma-Fix Environmental Services and 374Water”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Perma-Fix Environmental Services | $61.67 million | 4.51 | -$13.78 million | ($1.13) | -11.61 |
| 374Water | $1.89 million | 23.43 | -$20.98 million | ($0.71) | -3.52 |
Perma-Fix Environmental Services has higher revenue and earnings than 374Water. Perma-Fix Environmental Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than 374Water, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Perma-Fix Environmental Services and 374Water’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Perma-Fix Environmental Services | -37.04% | -35.46% | -20.22% |
| 374Water | N/A | -401.97% | -170.75% |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of current recommendations for Perma-Fix Environmental Services and 374Water, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Perma-Fix Environmental Services | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.50 |
| 374Water | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
Risk & Volatility
Perma-Fix Environmental Services has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, 374Water has a beta of -0.24, meaning that its share price is 124% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Perma-Fix Environmental Services beats 374Water on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Perma-Fix Environmental Services
Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as an environmental and technology know-how company in the United States. The company through Treatment and Services segments. The Treatment segment offers nuclear, low-level radioactive, mixed waste, hazardous and non-hazardous waste treatment, and processing and disposal services through treatment and storage facilities. This segment is also involved in the research and development activities to identify, develop, and implement waste processing techniques for problematic waste streams. The Services segment provides technical services, including professional radiological measurement and site survey of government and commercial installations; health physics services; integrated occupational safety and health services; and consulting, engineering, project and waste management, environmental, decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) field, technical and management personnel and services; and waste management services. This segment also offers nuclear services, including D&D of government and commercial facilities, including engineering, technology applications, specialty services, logistics, transportation, processing, and disposal; and license termination support, such as project management, planning, characterization, waste stream identification and delineation, remediation/demolition, compliance demonstration, final status survey, reporting, transportation, disposal and emergency response. In addition, it maintains, services, maintains, calibrates, and sources health physics, IH and customized nuclear, environmental, and occupational safety and health instruments. The company provides its services to research institutions, commercial companies, public utilities, and governmental agencies through direct sales to customers or through intermediaries. Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc. was incorporated in 1990 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
About 374Water
374Water Inc. provides a technology that transforms wet wastes into recoverable resources in the United States. The company transforms wet wastes, including sewage sludge, biosolids, food waste, hazardous and non-hazardous waste, and forever chemicals. It offers AirSCWO systems, a waste stream treatment system based on supercritical water oxidation that are used to treat various hazardous and non-hazardous waste streams. It serves Industrial, agricultural, defense, oil and gas, waste management, sanitation project, environmental remediation and compliance, and municipal markets. 374Water Inc. is based in Durham, North Carolina.
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