Enviri (NYSE:NVRI – Get Free Report) and 374Water (NASDAQ:SCWO – Get Free Report) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends and risk.
Volatility and Risk
Enviri has a beta of 1.93, meaning that its stock price is 93% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, 374Water has a beta of -0.4, meaning that its stock price is 140% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Enviri and 374Water”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Enviri | $2.34 billion | 0.40 | -$127.97 million | ($1.96) | -5.87 |
| 374Water | $440,000.00 | 234.65 | -$12.43 million | ($0.11) | -6.21 |
374Water has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Enviri. 374Water is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Enviri, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of current ratings for Enviri and 374Water, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Enviri | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.50 |
| 374Water | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
Enviri currently has a consensus price target of $10.00, suggesting a potential downside of 13.04%. Given Enviri’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Enviri is more favorable than 374Water.
Profitability
This table compares Enviri and 374Water’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Enviri | -7.02% | -7.86% | -1.33% |
| 374Water | -1,278.90% | -138.71% | -109.45% |
Insider & Institutional Ownership
93.4% of Enviri shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.2% of 374Water shares are held by institutional investors. 2.5% of Enviri shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 20.3% of 374Water shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Enviri beats 374Water on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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.
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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