LICY vs. PESI, CDTG, CLH, SRCL, MIXT, HEAR, FARO, ATNI, JFIN, and AMSWA
Should you be buying Li-Cycle stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Li-Cycle include Perma-Fix Environmental Services (PESI), CDT Environmental Technology Investment (CDTG), Clean Harbors (CLH), Stericycle (SRCL), MiX Telematics (MIXT), Turtle Beach (HEAR), FARO Technologies (FARO), ATN International (ATNI), Jiayin Group (JFIN), and American Software (AMSWA).
Li-Cycle (NYSE:LICY) and Perma-Fix Environmental Services (NASDAQ:PESI) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
Perma-Fix Environmental Services received 168 more outperform votes than Li-Cycle when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.16% of users gave Perma-Fix Environmental Services an outperform vote while only 35.71% of users gave Li-Cycle an outperform vote.
Li-Cycle has a beta of 1.52, meaning that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Perma-Fix Environmental Services has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
54.1% of Li-Cycle shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 25.5% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services shares are held by institutional investors. 17.7% of Li-Cycle shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.1% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Perma-Fix Environmental Services has a net margin of -3.20% compared to Li-Cycle's net margin of -1,244.97%. Perma-Fix Environmental Services' return on equity of -5.82% beat Li-Cycle's return on equity.
Perma-Fix Environmental Services has higher revenue and earnings than Li-Cycle. Perma-Fix Environmental Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Li-Cycle, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Li-Cycle currently has a consensus target price of $5.25, suggesting a potential upside of 920.01%. Given Li-Cycle's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Li-Cycle is more favorable than Perma-Fix Environmental Services.
In the previous week, Li-Cycle had 3 more articles in the media than Perma-Fix Environmental Services. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Li-Cycle and 4 mentions for Perma-Fix Environmental Services. Perma-Fix Environmental Services' average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Li-Cycle's score of 0.24 indicating that Perma-Fix Environmental Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Perma-Fix Environmental Services beats Li-Cycle on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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