Contrasting Stericycle (NASDAQ:SRCL) & CDT Environmental Technology Investment (NASDAQ:CDTG)

CDT Environmental Technology Investment (NASDAQ:CDTG) and Stericycle (NASDAQ:SRCL) are both business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends and earnings.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

98.8% of Stericycle shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Stericycle shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares CDT Environmental Technology Investment and Stericycle’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CDT Environmental Technology Investment	N/A	N/A	N/A
Stericycle	-0.74%	7.31%	3.44%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares CDT Environmental Technology Investment and Stericycle’s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CDT Environmental Technology Investment	$34.21 million	1.23	$7.42 million	N/A	N/A
Stericycle	$2.66 billion	2.03	-$21.40 million	($0.22)	-264.23

CDT Environmental Technology Investment has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Stericycle.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for CDT Environmental Technology Investment and Stericycle, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CDT Environmental Technology Investment	0	0	0	0	N/A
Stericycle	1	3	2	0	2.17

Stericycle has a consensus target price of $74.00, indicating a potential upside of 27.30%. Given Stericycle’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Stericycle is more favorable than CDT Environmental Technology Investment.

Summary

Stericycle beats CDT Environmental Technology Investment on 8 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About CDT Environmental Technology Investment

CDT Environmental Technology Investment Holdings Limited is a waste treatment company which designs, develops, manufactures, sells, installs, operates and maintains sewage treatment systems and provides sewage treatment services. CDT Environmental Technology Investment Holdings Limited is headquartered in Shenzhen, China.

About Stericycle

Stericycle, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides regulated waste and compliance services in the United States, Europe, and internationally. The company offers regulated waste and compliance services, including regulated medical waste, sharps waste management and disposal, pharmaceutical waste management and disposal, chemotherapy waste and disposal, controlled substance waste disposal, healthcare hazardous waste, and integrated waste stream solutions; specialty services, such as MedDrop medication collection kiosks, safe community solutions, SafeDrop sharps mailback solutions, and airport and maritime waste services; medical supply store services, that includes sharps and disposable biohazardous waste containers, infection control supplies, and seal&send medication mail back; and compliance solutions including Steri-Safe compliance solutions. It also provides secure information destruction services, including document, hard drive, destruction services under the Shred-it brand. The company serves healthcare businesses, including hospitals, health systems, non-affiliate hospitals, national and corporate healthcare, physician offices, surgery centers, veterinary and dental clinics, nursing and long-term care facilities, clinics and urgent care, dialysis centers, pharmacy, lab, research centers, home health organizations, etc.; and airports and seaports, education institutions, funeral homes and crematories, government and military, banks and professional services, and other businesses. Stericycle, Inc. was incorporated in 1989 and is headquartered in Bannockburn, Illinois.