SRCL vs. PESI, CLH, NVEI, DNB, BRZE, WU, CRVL, PAGS, DLO, and CNXC
Should you be buying Stericycle stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Stericycle include Perma-Fix Environmental Services (PESI), Clean Harbors (CLH), Nuvei (NVEI), Dun & Bradstreet (DNB), Braze (BRZE), Western Union (WU), CorVel (CRVL), PagSeguro Digital (PAGS), DLocal (DLO), and Concentrix (CNXC).
Perma-Fix Environmental Services (NASDAQ:PESI) and Stericycle (NASDAQ:SRCL) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Stericycle has a net margin of -0.74% compared to Stericycle's net margin of -3.20%. Perma-Fix Environmental Services' return on equity of 7.31% beat Stericycle's return on equity.
Stericycle received 273 more outperform votes than Perma-Fix Environmental Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.38% of users gave Perma-Fix Environmental Services an outperform vote while only 59.10% of users gave Stericycle an outperform vote.
25.5% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.8% of Stericycle shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.1% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Stericycle shares are owned by 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.
Stericycle has a consensus price target of $59.40, indicating a potential upside of 27.66%. Given Perma-Fix Environmental Services' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Stericycle is more favorable than Perma-Fix Environmental Services.
In the previous week, Stericycle had 4 more articles in the media than Perma-Fix Environmental Services. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Stericycle and 3 mentions for Perma-Fix Environmental Services. Perma-Fix Environmental Services' average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat Stericycle's score of 0.81 indicating that Stericycle is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Perma-Fix Environmental Services has a beta of 0.5, suggesting that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Stericycle has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Perma-Fix Environmental Services has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Stericycle. Stericycle is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Perma-Fix Environmental Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Stericycle beats Perma-Fix Environmental Services on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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