SRCL vs. PESI, CLH, KD, DLO, NVEI, WU, EXLS, MMS, BRZE, and DNB
Should you be buying Stericycle stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Stericycle include Perma-Fix Environmental Services (PESI), Clean Harbors (CLH), Kyndryl (KD), DLocal (DLO), Nuvei (NVEI), Western Union (WU), ExlService (EXLS), Maximus (MMS), Braze (BRZE), and Dun & Bradstreet (DNB).
Stericycle (NASDAQ:SRCL) and Perma-Fix Environmental Services (NASDAQ:PESI) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Stericycle currently has a consensus target price of $60.80, suggesting a potential upside of 31.29%. Given Stericycle's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Stericycle is more favorable than Perma-Fix Environmental Services.
98.8% of Stericycle shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 25.5% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Stericycle shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.1% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Perma-Fix Environmental Services has a net margin of 0.54% compared to Stericycle's net margin of -0.80%. Stericycle's return on equity of 7.06% beat Perma-Fix Environmental Services' return on equity.
Stericycle received 274 more outperform votes than Perma-Fix Environmental Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.48% of users gave Perma-Fix Environmental Services an outperform vote while only 59.18% of users gave Stericycle an outperform vote.
Stericycle has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Perma-Fix Environmental Services has a beta of 0.52, suggesting that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Stericycle had 17 more articles in the media than Perma-Fix Environmental Services. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Stericycle and 3 mentions for Perma-Fix Environmental Services. Perma-Fix Environmental Services' average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Stericycle's score of 0.65 indicating that Perma-Fix Environmental Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Perma-Fix Environmental Services has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Stericycle. Stericycle 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
Stericycle beats Perma-Fix Environmental Services on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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