SRCL vs. SMED, CHRA, CLH, TTEK, CWST, ABM, SP, TISI, WM, and RSG
Should you be buying Stericycle stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Stericycle include Sharps Compliance (SMED), Charah Solutions (CHRA), Clean Harbors (CLH), Tetra Tech (TTEK), Casella Waste Systems (CWST), ABM Industries (ABM), SP Plus (SP), Team (TISI), Waste Management (WM), and Republic Services (RSG).
Stericycle (NASDAQ:SRCL) and Sharps Compliance (NASDAQ:SMED) are both business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Stericycle presently has a consensus target price of $59.40, suggesting a potential upside of 20.00%. Given Stericycle's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Stericycle is more favorable than Sharps Compliance.
Stericycle received 220 more outperform votes than Sharps Compliance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.10% of users gave Stericycle an outperform vote while only 51.83% of users gave Sharps Compliance an outperform vote.
Stericycle has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sharps Compliance has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Stericycle had 4 more articles in the media than Sharps Compliance. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Stericycle and 1 mentions for Sharps Compliance. Stericycle's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Sharps Compliance's score of 0.00 indicating that Stericycle is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sharps Compliance has a net margin of 7.88% compared to Stericycle's net margin of -0.74%. Stericycle's return on equity of 7.31% beat Sharps Compliance's return on equity.
Sharps Compliance has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Stericycle. Stericycle is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sharps Compliance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
98.8% of Stericycle shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.1% of Sharps Compliance shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Stericycle shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.8% of Sharps Compliance shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Stericycle beats Sharps Compliance on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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