Analyzing ARQ (NASDAQ:ARQ) and China Everbright Environment Group?? (OTCMKTS:CHFFF)

ARQ (NASDAQ:ARQ) and China Everbright Environment Group?? (OTCMKTS:CHFFF) are both business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for ARQ and China Everbright Environment Group??, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
ARQ	1	1	2	1	2.60
China Everbright Environment Group??	0	0	0	0	0.00

ARQ presently has a consensus target price of $7.50, indicating a potential upside of 203.64%. Given ARQ’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe ARQ is more favorable than China Everbright Environment Group??.

Risk and Volatility

ARQ has a beta of 2.08, suggesting that its stock price is 108% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, China Everbright Environment Group?? has a beta of 0.12, suggesting that its stock price is 88% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares ARQ and China Everbright Environment Group??”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
ARQ	$120.34 million	0.88	-$52.61 million	($1.27)	-1.94
China Everbright Environment Group??	$3.88 billion	1.06	$457.43 million	N/A	N/A

China Everbright Environment Group?? has higher revenue and earnings than ARQ.

Profitability

This table compares ARQ and China Everbright Environment Group??’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
ARQ	-43.72%	-1.99%	-1.52%
China Everbright Environment Group??	N/A	N/A	N/A

Institutional and Insider Ownership

18.5% of ARQ shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.9% of ARQ shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

ARQ beats China Everbright Environment Group?? on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About ARQ

Arq, Inc. is a holding company. It engages in the provision of environmental and emission control equipment to the power generation industry. The company operates through the following Segments: Refined Coal and Advanced Purification Technologies. The Refined Coal segment includes the Tinuum Group, Tinuum Services, and GWN Manager. The Advanced Purification Technologies segment refers to the sale of Activated Carbon Injection and Dry Sorbent Injection equipment systems, chemical sales, consulting services, and other sales related to the reduction of emissions in the coal-fired electric generation process and the electric utility industry. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Greenwood Village, CO.

About China Everbright Environment Group??

China Everbright Environment Group Limited, an investment holding company, provides environmental solutions worldwide. The company’s Environmental Energy Project Construction and Operation segment constructs and operates food and kitchen waste treatment, leachate and fecal treatment, sludge treatment and disposal, fly ash landfill, medical waste, and solid waste treatment projects, as well as waste-to-energy and methane-to-energy plants. This segment also provides waste sorting, renewable resources utilization, and sanitation operation services. Its Greentech Project Construction and Operation segment constructs and operates integrated biomass utilization, hazardous and solid waste treatment, and solar energy and wind power projects, as well as offers environmental remediation services. The company’s Environmental Water Project Construction and Operation segment constructs, upgrades, and operates waste water treatment plants; water supply and reusable water treatment plants; and sponge city construction, sludge treatment and disposal, leachate treatment, river-basin ecological restoration, and waste water source heat pump projects. This segment also researches and develops water environment technologies and engineering projects. The company’s Others segment conducts environmental protection technology research and development projects; provides environmental related technological, and protection project equipment construction and installation services; designs environmental protection projects; and sells related equipment. It also collects and treats municipal wastes by mechanical and biological technology; and manufactures environmental protection equipment. The company was formerly known as China Everbright International Limited and changed its name to China Everbright Environment Group Limited in September 2020. China Everbright Environment Group Limited was incorporated in 1961 and is headquartered in Hong Kong, Hong Kong.