LICY vs. PESI, CDTG, CLH, SRCL, MIXT, HEAR, FARO, ATNI, JFIN, and AMSWA
Should you be buying Li-Cycle stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Li-Cycle include Perma-Fix Environmental Services (PESI), CDT Environmental Technology Investment (CDTG), Clean Harbors (CLH), Stericycle (SRCL), MiX Telematics (MIXT), Turtle Beach (HEAR), FARO Technologies (FARO), ATN International (ATNI), Jiayin Group (JFIN), and American Software (AMSWA).
Perma-Fix Environmental Services (NASDAQ:PESI) and Li-Cycle (NYSE:LICY) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and earnings.
25.5% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.1% of Li-Cycle shares are held by institutional investors. 10.1% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.7% of Li-Cycle shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Perma-Fix Environmental Services received 168 more outperform votes than Li-Cycle when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.16% of users gave Perma-Fix Environmental Services an outperform vote while only 35.71% of users gave Li-Cycle an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Li-Cycle had 3 more articles in the media than Perma-Fix Environmental Services. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Li-Cycle and 4 mentions for Perma-Fix Environmental Services. Li-Cycle's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Perma-Fix Environmental Services' score of 0.24 indicating that Perma-Fix Environmental Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Li-Cycle has a consensus price target of $5.25, suggesting a potential upside of 920.01%. Given Perma-Fix Environmental Services' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Li-Cycle is more favorable than Perma-Fix Environmental Services.
Perma-Fix Environmental Services has a net margin of -3.20% compared to Perma-Fix Environmental Services' net margin of -1,244.97%. Li-Cycle's return on equity of -5.82% beat Perma-Fix Environmental Services' return on equity.
Perma-Fix Environmental Services has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Li-Cycle has a beta of 1.52, meaning that its stock price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Perma-Fix Environmental Services has higher revenue and earnings than Li-Cycle. Perma-Fix Environmental Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Li-Cycle, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Perma-Fix Environmental Services beats Li-Cycle on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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