Critical Analysis: CDT Environmental Technology Investment (NASDAQ:CDTG) and Clean Harbors (NYSE:CLH)

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

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Clean Harbors and CDT Environmental Technology Investment’s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Clean Harbors	$5.41 billion	2.28	$377.86 million	$6.91	33.12
CDT Environmental Technology Investment	$34.21 million	1.22	$7.42 million	N/A	N/A

Clean Harbors has higher revenue and earnings than CDT Environmental Technology Investment.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for Clean Harbors and CDT Environmental Technology Investment, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Clean Harbors	0	1	8	1	3.00
CDT Environmental Technology Investment	0	0	0	0	N/A

Clean Harbors presently has a consensus price target of $216.40, indicating a potential downside of 5.46%. Given Clean Harbors’ higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Clean Harbors is more favorable than CDT Environmental Technology Investment.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

90.4% of Clean Harbors shares are held by institutional investors. 5.9% of Clean Harbors shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Clean Harbors	6.85%	16.97%	5.85%
CDT Environmental Technology Investment	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

Clean Harbors beats CDT Environmental Technology Investment on 11 of the 11 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 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.