374Water (NASDAQ:SCWO) versus Enviri (NYSE:NVRI) Head-To-Head Contrast

374Water (NASDAQ:SCWO) and Enviri (NYSE:NVRI) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, earnings and valuation.

Volatility & Risk

374Water has a beta of -0.4, meaning that its share price is 140% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Enviri has a beta of 1.93, meaning that its share price is 93% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

12.2% of 374Water shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.4% of Enviri shares are held by institutional investors. 20.3% of 374Water shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Enviri shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for 374Water and Enviri, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
374Water	1	0	0	0	1.00
Enviri	1	1	0	0	1.50

Enviri has a consensus price target of $10.00, indicating a potential downside of 14.82%. Given Enviri’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Enviri is more favorable than 374Water.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares 374Water and Enviri”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
374Water	$1.23 million	85.85	-$12.43 million	($0.11)	-6.36
Enviri	$2.34 billion	0.40	-$127.97 million	($1.96)	-5.99

374Water has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.

Profitability

This table compares 374Water and Enviri’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
374Water	-1,278.90%	-138.71%	-109.45%
Enviri	-7.02%	-7.86%	-1.33%

Summary

Enviri beats 374Water on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

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.