Pentair (NYSE:PNR – Get Free Report) and Enviri (NYSE:NVRI – Get Free Report) are both business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
Volatility & Risk
Pentair has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Enviri has a beta of 1.59, meaning that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for Pentair and Enviri, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Pentair | 3 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 2.47 |
| Enviri | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
Profitability
This table compares Pentair and Enviri’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Pentair | 15.98% | 21.92% | 12.21% |
| Enviri | -7.50% | -8.59% | -1.09% |
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Pentair and Enviri”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Pentair | $4.18 billion | 2.76 | $653.80 million | $4.08 | 17.48 |
| Enviri | $2.24 billion | 0.78 | -$167.60 million | ($2.08) | -10.13 |
Pentair has higher revenue and earnings than Enviri. Enviri is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pentair, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
92.4% of Pentair shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.4% of Enviri shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Pentair shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Enviri shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Pentair beats Enviri on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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.
About Enviri
Enviri Corporation provides environmental solutions for industrial and specialty waste streams in the United States and internationally. The company operates through two segments: Harsco Environmental and Clean Earth. The Harsco Environmental segment offers on-site services under long-term contracts for material logistics, product quality improvement, and resource recovery for iron, steel, and metals manufacturing; manufactures and sells industrial abrasives, roofing granules, aluminum dross, and scrap processing systems; and meltshop and furnace services, such as under-vessel cleaning, removal of ladle slag, and general melt shop debris. This segment also produces and sells value-added downstream products from industrial waste-stream, including road surfacing and materials, such as slag-based asphalt product under the SteelPhal brand; abrasives and roofing materials under the BLACK BEAUTY and SURE/CUT brand names; Metallurgical Additives; agriculture and turf products comprising soil conditioners and fertilizers under the CrossOver and AgrowSil brands; and cement additives. The Clean Earth segment provides specialty waste processing, treatment, recycling, and beneficial reuse solutions for waste needs, such as hazardous, non-hazardous, and contaminated soils and dredged materials to industrial, retail, healthcare, and construction industries. The company was formerly known as Harsco Corporation and changed its name to Enviri Corporation in June 2023. The company was founded in 1853 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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