BrightView (NYSE:BV – Get Free Report) and Perma-Fix Environmental Services (NASDAQ:PESI – Get Free Report) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares BrightView and Perma-Fix Environmental Services”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| BrightView | $2.67 billion | 0.36 | $56.00 million | ($0.25) | -40.86 |
| Perma-Fix Environmental Services | $57.18 million | 5.75 | -$13.78 million | ($1.13) | -13.71 |
Profitability
This table compares BrightView and Perma-Fix Environmental Services’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| BrightView | 0.74% | 5.03% | 1.87% |
| Perma-Fix Environmental Services | -37.04% | -35.46% | -20.22% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for BrightView and Perma-Fix Environmental Services, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| BrightView | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2.22 |
| Perma-Fix Environmental Services | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
BrightView currently has a consensus target price of $14.10, indicating a potential upside of 38.05%. Given BrightView’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe BrightView is more favorable than Perma-Fix Environmental Services.
Volatility and Risk
BrightView has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Perma-Fix Environmental Services has a beta of 0.56, suggesting that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
92.4% of BrightView shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 25.5% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.8% of BrightView shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.4% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
BrightView beats Perma-Fix Environmental Services on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About BrightView
BrightView Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides commercial landscaping services in the United States. It operates through two segments, Maintenance Services and Development Services. The Maintenance Services segment delivers a suite of recurring commercial landscaping services, including mowing, gardening, mulching and snow removal, water management, irrigation maintenance, tree care, golf course maintenance, and specialty turf maintenance. Its customers' properties include corporate and commercial properties, homeowners associations, public parks, hotels and resorts, airport authorities, municipalities, hospitals and other healthcare facilities, educational institutions, restaurants and retail, and golf courses. This segment's customer base includes approximately 8,800 office parks and corporate campuses 7,100 residential communities, and 550 educational institutions. The Development Services segment offers landscape architecture and development services for new facilities and redesign projects. Its services include project design and management services, landscape architecture and installation, irrigation installation, tree moving and installation, pool and water features, sports field, and other services. BrightView Holdings, Inc. also operates as official field consultant to various league baseball. The company was founded in 1939 and is headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.
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.
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