PESI vs. PSFE, UXIN, TRMR, MEG, MAX, PRTH, NVRI, MPLN, ACCD, and THRY
Should you be buying Perma-Fix Environmental Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Perma-Fix Environmental Services include Paysafe (PSFE), Uxin (UXIN), Tremor International (TRMR), Montrose Environmental Group (MEG), MediaAlpha (MAX), Priority Technology (PRTH), Enviri (NVRI), MultiPlan (MPLN), Accolade (ACCD), and Thryv (THRY). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
Perma-Fix Environmental Services vs. Its Competitors
Paysafe (NYSE:PSFE) and Perma-Fix Environmental Services (NASDAQ:PESI) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, risk and community ranking.
Paysafe has a beta of 1.79, meaning that its share price is 79% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Perma-Fix Environmental Services has a beta of 0.3, meaning that its share price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500.
54.4% of Paysafe shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 25.5% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.4% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Perma-Fix Environmental Services received 157 more outperform votes than Paysafe when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.79% of users gave Perma-Fix Environmental Services an outperform vote while only 36.78% of users gave Paysafe an outperform vote.
Paysafe has a net margin of -1.38% compared to Perma-Fix Environmental Services' net margin of -24.44%. Paysafe's return on equity of 12.92% beat Perma-Fix Environmental Services' return on equity.
In the previous week, Perma-Fix Environmental Services had 3 more articles in the media than Paysafe. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Perma-Fix Environmental Services and 2 mentions for Paysafe. Perma-Fix Environmental Services' average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Paysafe's score of 0.00 indicating that Perma-Fix Environmental Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Paysafe presently has a consensus price target of $16.95, indicating a potential upside of 31.63%. Given Paysafe's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Paysafe is more favorable than Perma-Fix Environmental Services.
Perma-Fix Environmental Services has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Paysafe. Paysafe is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Perma-Fix Environmental Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Paysafe beats Perma-Fix Environmental Services on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:PESI) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff