Head-To-Head Review: EAU Technologies (OTCMKTS:EAUI) vs. Perma-Fix Environmental Services (NASDAQ:PESI)

Perma-Fix Environmental Services (NASDAQ:PESI) and EAU Technologies (OTCMKTS:EAUI) are both industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Perma-Fix Environmental Services and EAU Technologies”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Perma-Fix Environmental Services	$60.66 million	3.77	-$19.98 million	($0.66)	-18.71
EAU Technologies	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

EAU Technologies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Perma-Fix Environmental Services.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

25.5% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services shares are held by institutional investors. 8.9% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Perma-Fix Environmental Services and EAU Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Perma-Fix Environmental Services	-31.25%	-21.73%	-13.38%
EAU Technologies	N/A	N/A	N/A

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings for Perma-Fix Environmental Services and EAU Technologies, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Perma-Fix Environmental Services	1	0	0	0	1.00
EAU Technologies	0	0	0	0	0.00

Given EAU Technologies’ higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe EAU Technologies is more favorable than Perma-Fix Environmental Services.

Volatility & Risk

Perma-Fix Environmental Services has a beta of 0.25, suggesting that its stock price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EAU Technologies has a beta of -0.46, suggesting that its stock price is 146% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Perma-Fix Environmental Services beats EAU Technologies on 5 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Perma-Fix Environmental Services

Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as an environmental and technology know-how company in the United States. The company through Treatment and Services segments. The Treatment segment offers nuclear, low-level radioactive, mixed waste, hazardous and non-hazardous waste treatment, and processing and disposal services through treatment and storage facilities. This segment is also involved in the research and development activities to identify, develop, and implement waste processing techniques for problematic waste streams. The Services segment provides technical services, including professional radiological measurement and site survey of government and commercial installations; health physics services; integrated occupational safety and health services; and consulting, engineering, project and waste management, environmental, decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) field, technical and management personnel and services; and waste management services. This segment also offers nuclear services, including D&D of government and commercial facilities, including engineering, technology applications, specialty services, logistics, transportation, processing, and disposal; and license termination support, such as project management, planning, characterization, waste stream identification and delineation, remediation/demolition, compliance demonstration, final status survey, reporting, transportation, disposal and emergency response. In addition, it maintains, services, maintains, calibrates, and sources health physics, IH and customized nuclear, environmental, and occupational safety and health instruments. The company provides its services to research institutions, commercial companies, public utilities, and governmental agencies through direct sales to customers or through intermediaries. Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc. was incorporated in 1990 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

About EAU Technologies

EAU Technologies, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets equipment that uses water electrolysis to create non-toxic cleaning and disinfecting fluids for food safety applications and dairy drinking water in the United States. Its products include Primacide A, a disinfecting and sanitizing fluid that kills bacteria, yeast, molds, viruses, and other organisms; Primacide B, an alkaline based cleaner; and Primacide C, which is used to stabilize acid water. The company’s fluids are used in commercial food processing, and organic or non-organic agricultural and consumer products that clean, disinfect, remediate, hydrate, and moisturize. It markets its products primarily for food and beverage processing, dairy production and processing, meat and poultry processing, and agricultural grow-out and processing industries, as well as environmental remediation, medical, seafood processing, and grocery store produce and meat departments. The company was formerly known as Electric Aquagenics Unlimited, Inc. and changed its name to EAU Technologies, Inc. in January 2007. EAU Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Kennesaw, Georgia.