Head to Head Review: Clean Harbors (NYSE:CLH) and GlyEco (OTCMKTS:GLYE)

Clean Harbors (NYSE:CLH) and GlyEco (OTCMKTS:GLYE) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.

Valuation & Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Clean Harbors	$6.03 billion	2.66	$390.97 million	$7.28	41.58
GlyEco	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Clean Harbors has higher revenue and earnings than GlyEco.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Clean Harbors and GlyEco, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Clean Harbors	0	5	8	2	2.80
GlyEco	0	0	0	0	0.00

Clean Harbors currently has a consensus target price of $308.09, suggesting a potential upside of 1.79%. Given Clean Harbors’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Clean Harbors is more favorable than GlyEco.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

90.4% of Clean Harbors shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.6% of Clean Harbors shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 22.1% of GlyEco shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Clean Harbors and GlyEco’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Clean Harbors	6.48%	14.47%	5.24%
GlyEco	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

Clean Harbors beats GlyEco on 9 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

About GlyEco

GlyEco, Inc. engages in the development and manufacture of coolants, additives and related performance fluids. Its products and services include additives, ethylene glycol and antifreeze. The company was founded by Janet Carnell Lorenz, John Darc Lorenz, II and Todd L. Smith on April 21, 1997 and is headquartered in Rock Hill, SC.