Fuel Tech (NASDAQ:FTEK – Get Free Report) and 374Water (NASDAQ:SCWO – Get Free Report) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
20.9% of Fuel Tech shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.2% of 374Water shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.8% of Fuel Tech shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.5% of 374Water shares are owned by company 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.
Volatility and Risk
Fuel Tech has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its share price is 28% more 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.
Profitability
This table compares Fuel Tech and 374Water’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Fuel Tech | -12.75% | -8.88% | -7.62% |
| 374Water | N/A | -401.97% | -170.75% |
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Fuel Tech and 374Water”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Fuel Tech | $26.68 million | 1.66 | -$2.32 million | ($0.11) | -12.92 |
| 374Water | $220,000.00 | 200.16 | -$20.98 million | ($0.71) | -3.50 |
Fuel Tech has higher revenue and earnings than 374Water. Fuel Tech is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than 374Water, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Fuel Tech and 374Water, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Fuel Tech | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.50 |
| 374Water | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
Summary
Fuel Tech beats 374Water on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Fuel Tech
Fuel Tech, Inc. provides boiler optimization, efficiency improvement, and air pollution reduction and control solutions to utility and industrial customers worldwide. The company operates through Air Pollution Control Technology and FUEL CHEM Technology segments. The Air Pollution Control Technology segment offers technologies to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions in flue gas from boilers, incinerators, furnaces, and other stationary combustion sources; NOxOUT and HERT selective non-catalytic reduction systems; selective catalytic reduction systems comprising ammonia injection grid, and graduated straightening grid systems; I-NOx systems; ESP Processes and Services; ULTRA technology; and flue gas conditioning systems. The FUEL CHEM Technology segment provides programs to improve the efficiency, reliability, fuel flexibility, boiler heat rate, and environmental status of combustion units by controlling slagging, fouling, corrosion, opacity, and acid plume, as well as the formation of sulfur trioxide, ammonium bisulfate, particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, and carbon dioxide through the addition of chemicals into the furnace using TIFI targeted in-furnace injection technology. This segment offers its FUEL CHEM program for plants operating in the electric utility, industrial, pulp and paper, waste-to-energy, and university and district heating markets; and the owners of boilers, furnaces, and other combustion units. Fuel Tech, Inc. was incorporated in 1987 and is headquartered in Warrenville, Illinois.
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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