Perma-Fix Environmental Services (NASDAQ:PESI – Get Free Report) and Geo Group (NYSE:GEO – Get Free Report) are both industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability and earnings.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Perma-Fix Environmental Services and Geo Group”s 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 | 5.98 | -$13.78 million | ($1.13) | -15.37 |
| Geo Group | $2.63 billion | 1.55 | $254.37 million | $2.12 | 14.66 |
Profitability
This table compares Perma-Fix Environmental Services and Geo Group’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% |
| Geo Group | 10.31% | 10.42% | 4.14% |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Perma-Fix Environmental Services and Geo Group, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Perma-Fix Environmental Services | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
| Geo Group | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3.00 |
Geo Group has a consensus target price of $40.00, suggesting a potential upside of 28.74%. Given Geo Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Geo Group is more favorable than Perma-Fix Environmental Services.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
25.5% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.1% of Geo Group shares are held by institutional investors. 8.4% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.0% of Geo Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Volatility & Risk
Perma-Fix Environmental Services has a beta of 0.46, indicating that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Geo Group has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Geo Group beats Perma-Fix Environmental Services on 13 of the 15 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 Geo Group
The GEO Group, Inc. (NYSE: GEO) engages in ownership, leasing, and management of secure facilities, processing centers, and community-based reentry facilities in the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, and South Africa. The company also provides secure facility management services, including the provision of security, administrative, rehabilitation, education, and food services; reentry services, such as temporary housing, programming, employment assistance, and other services; electronic monitoring and supervision services; and transportation services; as well as designs, constructs, and finances new facilities through projects. The company was founded in 1984 and is based in Boca Raton, Florida.
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