CLH vs. SRCL, APP, MORN, WEX, RHI, BKI, PCOR, CAR, SOFI, and YMM
Should you be buying Clean Harbors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Clean Harbors include Stericycle (SRCL), AppLovin (APP), Morningstar (MORN), WEX (WEX), Robert Half International (RHI), Black Knight (BKI), Procore Technologies (PCOR), Avis Budget Group (CAR), SoFi Technologies (SOFI), and Full Truck Alliance (YMM). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Clean Harbors vs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Summary
Clean Harbors beats Stericycle on 16 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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