Smart Powerr (NASDAQ:CREG – Get Free Report) and 374Water (NASDAQ:SCWO – Get Free Report) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Risk and Volatility
Smart Powerr has a beta of 2.26, meaning that its share price is 126% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, 374Water has a beta of -0.28, meaning that its share price is 128% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
0.2% of Smart Powerr shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.2% of 374Water shares are held by institutional investors. 15.4% of Smart Powerr shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.3% of 374Water 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.
Analyst Recommendations
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Smart Powerr | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
| 374Water | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
Profitability
This table compares Smart Powerr and 374Water’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Smart Powerr | -732.00% | -1.95% | -1.76% |
| 374Water | -911.15% | -338.77% | -189.45% |
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Smart Powerr and 374Water”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Smart Powerr | $260,000.00 | 230.77 | -$2.90 million | ($0.19) | -11.50 |
| 374Water | $220,000.00 | 180.25 | -$20.98 million | ($0.86) | -2.63 |
Smart Powerr has higher revenue and earnings than 374Water. Smart Powerr is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than 374Water, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Smart Powerr beats 374Water on 8 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Smart Powerr
Smart Powerr Corp. engages in the waste energy recycling business in China. The company provides energy saving and recovery facilities for various energy intensive industries; waste energy recycling systems for use in nonferrous metal plants; and clean-technology and energy-efficient solutions to reduce air pollution and energy shortage problems. It also designs, finances, constructs, and installs the waste energy recycling project to mid to large-size enterprises involved in high energy-consuming businesses; and provides project investment, investment management, economic information consulting, technical, financial leasing, and financial leasing transactions and consulting services; purchases, repairs, and disposes financial leasing assets; sells and leases energy saving systems and equipment. In addition, the company offers waste gas-to-energy solutions comprising the waste gas power generation system that utilizes flammable waste gas to generate electricity; and flammable waste gases emitted from industrial production processes, such as blast furnace gas, and coke furnace gas, oil or gas to power gas-fired generators, as well as uses the waste heat generated in industrial production to make steam to generate electricity through a steam turbine. Further, it markets its projects to the industrial manufacturers to utilize energy recovery projects in their manufacturing processes, including steel, cement, nonferrous metal, coal, and petrochemical industries. The company was formerly known as China Recycling Energy Corporation and changed its name to Smart Powerr Corp. in March 2022. Smart Powerr Corp. was incorporated in 1980 and is headquartered in Xi'an, China.
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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