Reviewing Perma-Fix Environmental Services (NASDAQ:PESI) & Media Pal (OTCMKTS:MPHD)

Perma-Fix Environmental Services (NASDAQ:PESI) and Media Pal (OTCMKTS:MPHD) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.

Profitability

This table compares Perma-Fix Environmental Services and Media Pal’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Perma-Fix Environmental Services	-31.25%	-21.73%	-13.38%
Media Pal	N/A	N/A	N/A

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Perma-Fix Environmental Services and Media Pal, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Perma-Fix Environmental Services	1	0	0	0	1.00
Media Pal	0	0	0	0	0.00

Given Media Pal’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Media Pal is more favorable than Perma-Fix Environmental Services.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Perma-Fix Environmental Services and Media Pal”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Perma-Fix Environmental Services	$60.02 million	4.00	-$19.98 million	($1.13)	-11.51
Media Pal	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Media Pal has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Perma-Fix Environmental Services.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

25.5% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services shares are held by institutional investors. 8.9% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 15.3% of Media Pal shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Media Pal beats Perma-Fix Environmental Services on 5 of the 8 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 Media Pal

Media Pal Holdings, Corp. operates as a non-hazardous waste treatment and disposal facility. It operates a 250-gallon per minute waste stream separation system at the Wyoming Avenue terminal facility. This system separates liquid waste streams and pumpable waste streams containing a mixture of liquids and solids. Its customers are located primarily throughout the Great Lakes region. The company, formerly known as Rich Coast, Inc. Media Pal Holdings, Corp. was founded in 1936 and is based in Sarasota, Florida.