CLH vs. SRCL, PATH, WPP, PSN, IPG, CNM, GFL, ESTC, DOCU, and MORN
Should you be buying Clean Harbors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Clean Harbors include Stericycle (SRCL), UiPath (PATH), WPP (WPP), Parsons (PSN), Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), Core & Main (CNM), GFL Environmental (GFL), Elastic (ESTC), DocuSign (DOCU), and Morningstar (MORN). 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 contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation and community ranking.
Clean Harbors has a net margin of 6.85% compared to Clean Harbors' net margin of -0.74%. Stericycle's return on equity of 16.97% beat Clean Harbors' return on equity.
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 company insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of Clean Harbors shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Stericycle had 1 more articles in the media than Clean Harbors. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Stericycle and 7 mentions for Clean Harbors. Clean Harbors' average media sentiment score of 1.52 beat Stericycle's score of 1.36 indicating that Stericycle is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Clean Harbors received 102 more outperform votes than Stericycle when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.45% of users gave Clean Harbors an outperform vote while only 59.10% of users gave Stericycle an outperform vote.
Stericycle currently has a consensus price target of $59.40, suggesting a potential upside of 27.66%. Clean Harbors has a consensus price target of $216.40, suggesting a potential upside of 1.54%. Given Clean Harbors' higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Stericycle is more favorable than Clean Harbors.
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.
Stericycle has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Clean Harbors has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Clean Harbors beats Stericycle on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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