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

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Stericycle and CDT Environmental Technology Investment, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

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

Stericycle currently has a consensus price target of $74.00, suggesting a potential upside of 26.17%. Given Stericycle’s higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Stericycle is more favorable than CDT Environmental Technology Investment.

Earnings and Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Stericycle	$2.66 billion	2.05	-$21.40 million	($0.22)	-266.59
CDT Environmental Technology Investment	$34.21 million	0.92	$7.42 million	N/A	N/A

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

Institutional & Insider Ownership

98.8% of Stericycle shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Stericycle shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

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

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

Summary

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

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.

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.