Reviewing QXO (NYSE:QXO) and Euro Tech (NASDAQ:CLWT)

QXO (NYSE:QXO) and Euro Tech (NASDAQ:CLWT) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership and valuation.

Risk & Volatility

QXO has a beta of 2.28, suggesting that its share price is 128% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Euro Tech has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations for QXO and Euro Tech, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
QXO	1	1	15	1	2.89
Euro Tech	1	0	0	0	1.00

QXO currently has a consensus target price of $28.00, indicating a potential upside of 101.66%. Given QXO’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe QXO is more favorable than Euro Tech.

Profitability

This table compares QXO and Euro Tech’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
QXO	-5.17%	2.41%	1.20%
Euro Tech	N/A	N/A	N/A

Insider & Institutional Ownership

58.7% of QXO shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.9% of Euro Tech shares are held by institutional investors. 41.0% of QXO shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 79.0% of Euro Tech shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares QXO and Euro Tech”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
QXO	$6.84 billion	2.11	-$279.40 million	($0.90)	-15.43
Euro Tech	$13.27 million	0.92	$160,000.00	N/A	N/A

Euro Tech has lower revenue, but higher earnings than QXO.

Summary

QXO beats Euro Tech on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About QXO

QXO, Inc. operates as a business application, technology, and consulting company in North America. The company provides solutions for accounting and business management, financial reporting, enterprise resource planning, human capital management, warehouse management systems, customer relationship management, and business intelligence. It also offers value-added services that focuses on consulting and professional, specialized programming, training, and technical support services. In addition, the company provides information technology managed services, such as cybersecurity, application hosting, disaster recovery, business continuity, cloud, and other services; and data back-up, network maintenance, and upgrade services. It serves small and medium-sized businesses primarily in the manufacturing, distribution, and service industries. QXO, Inc. is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.

About Euro Tech

Euro Tech Holdings Company Limited primarily distributes water treatment equipment, laboratory instruments, analyzers, test kits and related supplies, and power generation equipment to commercial customers, and governmental agencies in Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China. The company operates in two segments, Trading and Manufacturing, and Engineering. It sells analytical instruments, such as spectrophotometers, colorimeters, chromatographs, mass spectrometers, flow injector analyzers, automated sample preparation workstations, and atomic spectrometers; environmental monitoring instruments comprising air and water quality monitoring instruments; sample pre-treatment equipment; and general-purpose laboratory instruments consisting of water quality monitoring and analysis equipment. The company also distributes general testing and measuring equipment comprising multi-channel digital and analogue recorders, signal amplifiers, and calibration equipment for energy conservation, renewable energy equipment, power quality analyzers, and continuous emissions monitoring systems; and air pollution control systems to power plants, railway and aero-space industries, utilities, educational institutions, and telecommunications companies. In addition, it offers process control systems, including sensors, temperature and pressure gauges, power and energy consumption meters, flow meters, valves, temperature and pressure transmitters and control devices, and temperature and pressure calibrators, as well as moisture, power, energy, and harmonic analyzers; systems engineering services; and maintenance, installation assistance, and calibration services. Further, the company distributes programmable logic controllers, telemetry units, and supervisory control and data acquisition systems and software. Euro Tech Holdings Company Limited was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Hong Kong, Hong Kong.