Comparing Enviri (NYSE:NVRI) & CDT Environmental Technology Investment (NASDAQ:CDTG)

CDT Environmental Technology Investment (NASDAQ:CDTG) and Enviri (NYSE:NVRI) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

93.4% of Enviri shares are held by institutional investors. 2.5% of Enviri shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares CDT Environmental Technology Investment and Enviri”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CDT Environmental Technology Investment	$29.76 million	0.10	$1.45 million	N/A	N/A
Enviri	$2.34 billion	0.65	-$127.97 million	($2.08)	-9.13

CDT Environmental Technology Investment has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Enviri.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for CDT Environmental Technology Investment and Enviri, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CDT Environmental Technology Investment	1	0	0	0	1.00
Enviri	1	2	0	0	1.67

Volatility & Risk

CDT Environmental Technology Investment has a beta of -4.26, indicating that its stock price is 526% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Enviri has a beta of 1.77, indicating that its stock price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares CDT Environmental Technology Investment and Enviri’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CDT Environmental Technology Investment	N/A	N/A	N/A
Enviri	-7.42%	-9.80%	-1.55%

Summary

Enviri beats CDT Environmental Technology Investment on 6 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About CDT Environmental Technology Investment

CDT Environmental Technology Investment Holdings Limited designs, develops, manufactures, sells, installs, operates, and maintains sewage treatment systems in China. The company sells complete sewage treatment systems; constructs rural sewage treatment plants; installs systems; and provides on-going operation and maintenance services for systems and plants in China for municipalities and enterprise clients. It provides sewage treatment services, such as on-site or in-situ septic tank treatment services in the urban and rural areas for municipalities, and residential and business property management companies. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Shenzhen, China.

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.