CLH vs. SRCL, CNM, WPP, PCOR, ESTC, DOCU, IPG, AFRM, APG, and WEX
Should you be buying Clean Harbors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Clean Harbors include Stericycle (SRCL), Core & Main (CNM), WPP (WPP), Procore Technologies (PCOR), Elastic (ESTC), DocuSign (DOCU), Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), Affirm (AFRM), APi Group (APG), and WEX (WEX). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Stericycle (NASDAQ:SRCL) and Clean Harbors (NYSE:CLH) are both business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, dividends and community ranking.
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.
In the previous week, Clean Harbors had 1 more articles in the media than Stericycle. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Clean Harbors and 9 mentions for Stericycle. Clean Harbors' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Stericycle's score of 0.95 indicating that Stericycle is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Stericycle has a beta of 1.09, meaning that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Clean Harbors has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Clean Harbors received 96 more outperform votes than Stericycle when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.23% of users gave Clean Harbors an outperform vote while only 59.25% of users gave Stericycle an outperform vote.
Stericycle currently has a consensus target price of $62.25, indicating a potential upside of 24.82%. Clean Harbors has a consensus target price of $207.90, indicating a potential upside of 6.07%. Given Clean Harbors' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Stericycle is more favorable than Clean Harbors.
98.8% of Stericycle shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.4% of Clean Harbors shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Stericycle shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.6% of Clean Harbors shares are owned by 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.
Clean Harbors has a net margin of 6.99% compared to Clean Harbors' net margin of -0.80%. Stericycle's return on equity of 17.83% beat Clean Harbors' return on equity.
Summary
Clean Harbors beats Stericycle on 16 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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