Civeo (NYSE:CVEO – Get Free Report) and Smart Powerr (NASDAQ:CREG – Get Free Report) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Civeo and Smart Powerr”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Civeo | $638.85 million | 0.49 | -$20.07 million | ($1.17) | -26.10 |
| Smart Powerr | $350,237.00 | 1.41 | -$2.90 million | ($1.90) | -0.09 |
Smart Powerr has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Civeo. Civeo is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Smart Powerr, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Civeo and Smart Powerr’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Civeo | -1.93% | -7.82% | -2.72% |
| Smart Powerr | -732.00% | -1.95% | -1.76% |
Volatility and Risk
Civeo has a beta of 0.71, suggesting that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Smart Powerr has a beta of 2.3, suggesting that its stock price is 130% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Civeo and Smart Powerr, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Civeo | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2.50 |
| Smart Powerr | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
Civeo presently has a consensus price target of $42.25, suggesting a potential upside of 38.34%. Given Civeo’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Civeo is more favorable than Smart Powerr.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
81.4% of Civeo shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.2% of Smart Powerr shares are held by institutional investors. 6.5% of Civeo shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.3% of Smart Powerr shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
About Civeo
Civeo Corporation provides hospitality services to the natural resource industry in Canada, Australia, and the United States. The company develops lodges and villages; and mobile assets, including modular, skid-mounted accommodation, and central facilities that provide short to medium-term accommodation needs. It offers food, housekeeping, and maintenance services, as well as laundry, facility management and maintenance, water and wastewater treatment, power generation, communication systems, security, and logistics services, and camp management services. In addition, the company provides development activities for workforce accommodation facilities, including site selection, permitting, engineering and design, manufacturing management, and site construction services, as well as lodging and catering services. It serves oil, mining, engineering, and oilfield and mining service companies. Civeo Corporation was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
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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