Aqua Metals (NASDAQ:AQMS – Get Free Report) and Smart Powerr (NASDAQ:CREG – Get Free Report) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability and dividends.
Profitability
This table compares Aqua Metals and Smart Powerr’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Aqua Metals | N/A | -185.00% | -129.28% |
| Smart Powerr | -732.00% | -1.95% | -1.76% |
Risk and Volatility
Aqua Metals has a beta of 0.25, suggesting that its share price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Smart Powerr has a beta of 2.26, suggesting that its share price is 126% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Aqua Metals | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
| Smart Powerr | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Aqua Metals and Smart Powerr”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Aqua Metals | N/A | N/A | -$22.65 million | ($10.85) | -0.33 |
| Smart Powerr | $260,000.00 | 26.32 | -$2.90 million | ($0.19) | -1.57 |
Smart Powerr has higher revenue and earnings than Aqua Metals. Smart Powerr is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aqua Metals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
22.0% of Aqua Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.2% of Smart Powerr shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.3% of Aqua Metals shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.4% of Smart Powerr shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Smart Powerr beats Aqua Metals on 7 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Aqua Metals
Aqua Metals, Inc. engages in reinventing metals recycling activities with its patented AquaRefining technology. The company's technology produces metals and alloys that can be returned into the battery manufacturing supply chain markets, as well as sells metals for use in various advanced manufacturing industries. Its AquaRefining, a low-emissions and recycling technology that replaces polluting furnaces and hazardous chemicals with electricity-powered electroplating to recover valuable metals and materials from spent batteries. Aqua Metals, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Reno, Nevada.
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.
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