CLH vs. SRCL, ESTC, APG, PCOR, PATH, WPP, AFRM, DUOL, FUTU, and CNM
Should you be buying Clean Harbors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Clean Harbors include Stericycle (SRCL), Elastic (ESTC), APi Group (APG), Procore Technologies (PCOR), UiPath (PATH), WPP (WPP), Affirm (AFRM), Duolingo (DUOL), Futu (FUTU), and Core & Main (CNM). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Clean Harbors (NYSE:CLH) and Stericycle (NASDAQ:SRCL) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.
Clean Harbors presently has a consensus target price of $216.40, suggesting a potential upside of 4.36%. Stericycle has a consensus target price of $59.40, suggesting a potential upside of 28.63%. Given Stericycle's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Stericycle is more favorable than Clean Harbors.
Clean Harbors has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Stericycle has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
90.4% of Clean Harbors shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.8% of Stericycle shares are held by institutional investors. 5.9% of Clean Harbors shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Stericycle shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Clean Harbors had 7 more articles in the media than Stericycle. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Clean Harbors and 24 mentions for Stericycle. Clean Harbors' average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Stericycle's score of 0.46 indicating that Clean Harbors is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Clean Harbors has higher revenue and earnings than Stericycle. Stericycle is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Clean Harbors, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Clean Harbors has a net margin of 6.85% compared to Stericycle's net margin of -0.74%. Clean Harbors' return on equity of 16.97% beat Stericycle's return on equity.
Clean Harbors received 102 more outperform votes than Stericycle when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.45% of users gave Clean Harbors an outperform vote while only 59.10% of users gave Stericycle an outperform vote.
Summary
Clean Harbors beats Stericycle on 17 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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