Euro Tech Holdings Company Limited Common Stock (CLWT)

FairStock Score: 45/100 — MIXED

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AI Analysis

AI-generated, general educational analysis — not personal investment advice.

Euro Tech is a tiny distributor of water and wastewater instruments, with only 47 employees. That is a difficult place to build a moat: trading and marketing specialized analyzers can be useful, but it rarely creates the durable pricing power I look for. The numbers support caution. At the 2026-10-13 close of $1.57, market cap is $9.6M. The FairStock-calculated P/E is 78.50, so earnings are very thin relative to price. P/B is 0.75, which suggests the market values it below stated book value, but a cheap asset multiple is only attractive if those assets earn a decent return. FairStock ROE is 1.00% and ROCE is -0.69%, so the business is barely profitable and not covering its capital costs. The balance sheet is conservative with D/E of 0.02, and Altman Z-score of 1.85 hints at some distress risk despite low leverage. Piotroski F-score is 1/9, a weak signal. The Graham Number of $0.97 versus the $1.57 price implies a negative margin of safety of about 61.86%, so on Graham's valuation test it is not cheap. Growth data are not provided, and FairStock cannot assign a Lynch category because it has only 0 years of filed results — not enough for that rule. The 52-week range of $0.99–$2.68 shows speculation. Without evidence of durable earnings or returns, this remains a speculative micro-cap, not a high-quality bargain.

In plain English: Euro Tech sells water and wastewater testing and treatment equipment in Hong Kong and China. The business looks weak right now: profits are very small, returns on money put into the company are low, and the stock has swung widely. At $1.57, the price looks expensive compared with its profits but below its book value, so it does not look like a clear bargain based on the numbers given.

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Data as of 2026-10-13 close · note generated 2026-10-15 · model deepseek-flash

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