Clean Harbors (NYSE:CLH) versus Sims Metal Management (OTCMKTS:SMSMY) Head-To-Head Survey

Sims Metal Management (OTCMKTS:SMSMY) and Clean Harbors (NYSE:CLH) are both business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.

Profitability

This table compares Sims Metal Management and Clean Harbors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Sims Metal Management	N/A	N/A	N/A
Clean Harbors	6.58%	15.47%	5.38%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Sims Metal Management and Clean Harbors, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Sims Metal Management	1	0	0	0	1.00
Clean Harbors	0	2	7	0	2.78

Clean Harbors has a consensus price target of $257.67, indicating a potential upside of 13.15%. Given Clean Harbors’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Clean Harbors is more favorable than Sims Metal Management.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Sims Metal Management and Clean Harbors”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Sims Metal Management	$4.74 billion	0.43	-$37.90 million	N/A	N/A
Clean Harbors	$5.89 billion	2.07	$402.30 million	$7.22	31.54

Clean Harbors has higher revenue and earnings than Sims Metal Management.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

90.4% of Clean Harbors shares are held by institutional investors. 5.6% of Clean Harbors shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Risk & Volatility

Sims Metal Management has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Clean Harbors has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Clean Harbors beats Sims Metal Management on 11 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Sims Metal Management

Sims Limited engages in buying, processing, and selling ferrous and non-ferrous recycled metals in Australia, Bangladesh, China, Turkey, the United States, and internationally. The company operates through six segments: North America Metals, Investment in SA Recycling, Australia/New Zealand Metals, UK Metals, Global Trading, and Sims Lifecycle Services. It is involved in the collection, processing, and trading of iron and steel secondary raw materials; and other metal alloys and residues, principally aluminum, lead, copper, zinc, and nickel bearing materials. The company also engages in the provision of environmentally responsible solutions for the disposal of post-consumer electronic products, such as information technology assets recycled for commercial customers; and environmentally responsible recycling of negative value materials, including electronic equipment. In addition, it provides secondary processing and other services comprising recycling of municipal curbside materials, stevedoring, and other sources of service. The company was founded in 1917 and is headquartered in Mascot, Australia.

About Clean Harbors

Clean Harbors, Inc. provides environmental and industrial services in the United States and internationally. The company operates through two segments, Environmental Services and Safety-Kleen Sustainability Solutions. The Environmental Services segment collects, transports, treats, and disposes hazardous and non-hazardous waste, such as resource recovery, physical treatment, fuel blending, incineration, landfill disposal, wastewater treatment, lab chemicals disposal, and explosives management services; and offers CleanPack services, including collection, identification, categorization, specialized packaging, transportation, and disposal of laboratory chemicals and household hazardous waste. This segment also provides industrial maintenance and specialty industrial services; and utilizes specialty equipment and resources that performs field services. The Safety-Kleen Sustainability Solutions segment provides pickup and transportation services for hazardous and non-hazardous containerized waste for recycling or disposal; machine cleaning and maintenance, and disposal and replenishment of clean solvent or aqueous fluids; and vacuum services to remove solids, residual oily water, and sludge and other fluids from customers' oil/water separators, sumps, and collection tanks, as well as removes and collects waste fluids found at large and small industrial locations, including metal fabricators, auto maintenance providers, and general manufacturers. This segment also manufactures, formulates, packages, distributes, and markets lubricants and other automotive products. Clean Harbors, Inc. was incorporated in 1980 and is headquartered in Norwell, Massachusetts.