Clean Harbors (CLH) Competitors

Clean Harbors (NYSE:CLH) and Stericycle (NASDAQ:SRCL) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, dividends, risk and institutional ownership.

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, CLH or SRCL?

Clean Harbors has higher revenue and earnings than Stericycle. Clean Harbors is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Stericycle, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Clean Harbors	$5.17 billion	1.63	$411.74 million	$8.06	19.28
Stericycle	$2.70 billion	1.55	$56 million	$0.88	51.57

Do analysts prefer CLH or SRCL?

Clean Harbors presently has a consensus target price of $152.22, indicating a potential downside of 2.13%. Stericycle has a consensus target price of $49.00, indicating a potential upside of 7.79%. Given Stericycle's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Stericycle is more favorable than Clean Harbors.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Clean Harbors	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Stericycle	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Which has more volatility and risk, CLH or SRCL?

Clean Harbors has a beta of 1.37, suggesting that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Stericycle has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer CLH or SRCL?

Clean Harbors received 78 more outperform votes than Stericycle when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.78% of users gave Clean Harbors an outperform vote while only 59.63% of users gave Stericycle an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Clean Harbors	Outperform Votes 533 70.78%	Underperform Votes 220 29.22%
Stericycle	Outperform Votes 455 59.63%	Underperform Votes 308 40.37%

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in CLH or SRCL?

88.1% of Clean Harbors shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.1% of Stericycle shares are held by institutional investors. 6.7% of Clean Harbors shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Stericycle shares are held 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.

Is CLH or SRCL more profitable?

Clean Harbors has a net margin of 8.27% compared to Stericycle's net margin of 2.99%. Clean Harbors' return on equity of 22.43% beat Stericycle's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Clean Harbors	8.27%	22.43%	6.91%
Stericycle	2.99%	8.58%	3.83%

Does the media favor CLH or SRCL?

In the previous week, Clean Harbors had 3 more articles in the media than Stericycle. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Clean Harbors and 4 mentions for Stericycle. Clean Harbors' average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat Stericycle's score of 1.10 indicating that Clean Harbors is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Clean Harbors	5 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Stericycle	3 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Clean Harbors beats Stericycle on 16 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.