PESI vs. SMED, LICY, CDTG, CHRA, CLH, SRCL, KRT, MYE, ITRN, and EBF
Should you be buying Perma-Fix Environmental Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Perma-Fix Environmental Services include Sharps Compliance (SMED), Li-Cycle (LICY), CDT Environmental Technology Investment (CDTG), Charah Solutions (CHRA), Clean Harbors (CLH), Stericycle (SRCL), Karat Packaging (KRT), Myers Industries (MYE), Ituran Location and Control (ITRN), and Ennis (EBF).
Sharps Compliance (NASDAQ:SMED) and Perma-Fix Environmental Services (NASDAQ:PESI) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Perma-Fix Environmental Services had 3 more articles in the media than Sharps Compliance. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Perma-Fix Environmental Services and 1 mentions for Sharps Compliance. Sharps Compliance's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Perma-Fix Environmental Services' score of 0.00 indicating that Perma-Fix Environmental Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sharps Compliance has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Perma-Fix Environmental Services. Perma-Fix Environmental Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sharps Compliance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sharps Compliance received 53 more outperform votes than Perma-Fix Environmental Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.16% of users gave Perma-Fix Environmental Services an outperform vote while only 51.83% of users gave Sharps Compliance an outperform vote.
Sharps Compliance has a beta of 1.28, indicating that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Perma-Fix Environmental Services has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Sharps Compliance has a net margin of 7.88% compared to Sharps Compliance's net margin of -3.20%. Perma-Fix Environmental Services' return on equity of 5.48% beat Sharps Compliance's return on equity.
56.1% of Sharps Compliance shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 25.5% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.8% of Sharps Compliance shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 10.1% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Sharps Compliance beats Perma-Fix Environmental Services on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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