Perma-Fix Environmental Services (NASDAQ:PESI – Get Free Report) and GFL Environmental (NYSE:GFL – Get Free Report) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends and earnings.
Profitability
This table compares Perma-Fix Environmental Services and GFL Environmental’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Perma-Fix Environmental Services | -37.04% | -35.46% | -20.22% |
| GFL Environmental | -4.93% | 4.39% | 1.60% |
Risk & Volatility
Perma-Fix Environmental Services has a beta of 0.56, suggesting that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GFL Environmental has a beta of 0.72, suggesting that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
25.5% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.7% of GFL Environmental shares are held by institutional investors. 8.4% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.7% of GFL Environmental shares are held by 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.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Perma-Fix Environmental Services and GFL Environmental, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Perma-Fix Environmental Services | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.50 |
| GFL Environmental | 2 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 2.56 |
GFL Environmental has a consensus target price of $57.60, suggesting a potential upside of 25.04%. Given GFL Environmental’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe GFL Environmental is more favorable than Perma-Fix Environmental Services.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Perma-Fix Environmental Services and GFL Environmental”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Perma-Fix Environmental Services | $61.67 million | 4.53 | -$13.78 million | ($1.13) | -11.64 |
| GFL Environmental | $4.73 billion | 3.51 | $2.74 billion | ($0.79) | -58.31 |
GFL Environmental has higher revenue and earnings than Perma-Fix Environmental Services. GFL Environmental 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
GFL Environmental beats Perma-Fix Environmental Services on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Perma-Fix Environmental Services
Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as an environmental and technology know-how company in the United States. The company through Treatment and Services segments. The Treatment segment offers nuclear, low-level radioactive, mixed waste, hazardous and non-hazardous waste treatment, and processing and disposal services through treatment and storage facilities. This segment is also involved in the research and development activities to identify, develop, and implement waste processing techniques for problematic waste streams. The Services segment provides technical services, including professional radiological measurement and site survey of government and commercial installations; health physics services; integrated occupational safety and health services; and consulting, engineering, project and waste management, environmental, decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) field, technical and management personnel and services; and waste management services. This segment also offers nuclear services, including D&D of government and commercial facilities, including engineering, technology applications, specialty services, logistics, transportation, processing, and disposal; and license termination support, such as project management, planning, characterization, waste stream identification and delineation, remediation/demolition, compliance demonstration, final status survey, reporting, transportation, disposal and emergency response. In addition, it maintains, services, maintains, calibrates, and sources health physics, IH and customized nuclear, environmental, and occupational safety and health instruments. The company provides its services to research institutions, commercial companies, public utilities, and governmental agencies through direct sales to customers or through intermediaries. Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc. was incorporated in 1990 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
About GFL Environmental
GFL Environmental Inc. offers non-hazardous solid waste management and environmental services in Canada and the United States. It offers solid waste management, liquid waste management, and soil remediation services, including collection, transportation, transfer, recycling, and disposal services for municipal, residential, and commercial, and industrial customers. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in Vaughan, Canada.
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