Comparing Smith-Midland (NASDAQ:SMID) and ReTo Eco-Solutions (NASDAQ:RETO)

Profitability

This table compares ReTo Eco-Solutions and Smith-Midland’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
ReTo Eco-Solutions	N/A	N/A	N/A
Smith-Midland	11.64%	23.92%	14.38%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares ReTo Eco-Solutions and Smith-Midland”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
ReTo Eco-Solutions	$1.83 million	9.47	-$8.35 million	N/A	N/A
Smith-Midland	$78.51 million	2.82	$7.68 million	$1.85	22.57

Smith-Midland has higher revenue and earnings than ReTo Eco-Solutions.

Volatility & Risk

ReTo Eco-Solutions has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Smith-Midland has a beta of 1.66, meaning that its stock price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

6.3% of ReTo Eco-Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.9% of Smith-Midland shares are held by institutional investors. 18.7% of ReTo Eco-Solutions shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.9% of Smith-Midland shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Smith-Midland beats ReTo Eco-Solutions on 7 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About ReTo Eco-Solutions

ReTo Eco-Solutions, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and distributes construction materials primarily in China. Its products include aggregates, bricks, pavers, and tiles. The company's construction materials are used for water absorption, flood control, and water retention; for gardens, roads, bridges, city squares, retaining walls, and slope construction; for hydraulic ecological projects, such as slope protection and river transformation; and for insulation, decoration, and building walls. It also offers construction materials manufacturing equipment, such as automated production equipment with hydraulic integration in China, South Asia, North America, the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia. In addition, the company undertakes municipal construction projects, including sponge city projects. Further, it offers roadside assistance services, including towing, jump start, tire change, automobile repair services, and other services; and provision of designs, develops, and sells customized software solutions, such as logistics management system, retail management system, fleet management system, and vehicle rental management system. Additionally, the company provides parts, engineering support, consulting, technical advice and service, and other project-related solutions for environmental protection projects. ReTo Eco-Solutions, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People's Republic of China.

About Smith-Midland

Smith-Midland Corporation invents, develops, manufactures, markets, leases, licenses, sells, and installs precast concrete products and systems in the United States. It offers SlenderWall lightweight construction panel, lightweight exterior cladding used for the exterior walls of buildings; Sierra Wall that provides sound and sight barrier for use alongside highways around residential, industrial, and commercial properties; J-J Hooks highway safety barriers, used on roadways to separate lanes of traffic in construction work zone or traffic control purposes; Easi-Set precast building and Easi-Span expandable precast buildings, used in housing communications operations, traffic control systems, and mechanical and electrical stations; Easi-Set utility, vaults for house equipment, such as cable, telephone, or traffic signal equipment, and for underground storage, as well as custom-built utility vaults for special needs; SoftSound soundwall panels, it absorb highway noise; Beach Prisms erosion control modules for seawalls and jetties; and H2Out secondary drainage systems for panelized exterior cladding. It licenses its proprietary products in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Belgium, Mexico, and Trinidad. The company markets its products through in-house sales force and independent sales representatives to contractors performing public and private construction contracts, such as construction of commercial buildings, public and private roads and highways, airports, and municipal utilities; and federal, state, and local transportation authorities. It serves its products to construction, highway, utilities, and farming industries. Smith-Midland Corporation was founded in 1960 and is based in Midland, Virginia.