CLH vs. ROL, TTEK, CWST, SRCL, ABM, SP, TISI, WM, RSG, and PESI
Should you be buying Clean Harbors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Clean Harbors include Rollins (ROL), Tetra Tech (TTEK), Casella Waste Systems (CWST), Stericycle (SRCL), ABM Industries (ABM), SP Plus (SP), Team (TISI), Waste Management (WM), Republic Services (RSG), and Perma-Fix Environmental Services (PESI).
Rollins (NYSE:ROL) and Clean Harbors (NYSE:CLH) are both large-cap construction companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and risk.
Rollins has a net margin of 13.94% compared to Rollins' net margin of 6.85%. Clean Harbors' return on equity of 37.73% beat Rollins' return on equity.
In the previous week, Rollins had 4 more articles in the media than Clean Harbors. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Rollins and 8 mentions for Clean Harbors. Rollins' average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Clean Harbors' score of 0.48 indicating that Clean Harbors is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Rollins presently has a consensus target price of $47.00, indicating a potential upside of 3.07%. Clean Harbors has a consensus target price of $216.40, indicating a potential upside of 1.45%. Given Clean Harbors' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Rollins is more favorable than Clean Harbors.
Clean Harbors received 243 more outperform votes than Rollins when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.45% of users gave Clean Harbors an outperform vote while only 62.02% of users gave Rollins an outperform vote.
Rollins has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Clean Harbors has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
51.8% of Rollins shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.4% of Clean Harbors shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.7% of Rollins shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of Clean Harbors shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Rollins has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Clean Harbors. Clean Harbors is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rollins, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Clean Harbors beats Rollins on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding CLH and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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