Perma-Fix Environmental Services (NASDAQ:PESI) Raised to Sell at StockNews.com

Perma-Fix Environmental Services (NASDAQ:PESI) was upgraded by stock analysts at StockNews.com to a “sell” rating in a report issued on Wednesday.

Perma-Fix Environmental Services Stock Down 1.8 %

Shares of NASDAQ:PESI opened at $11.68 on Wednesday. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $13.73 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $11.63. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.06, a current ratio of 1.42 and a quick ratio of 1.37. Perma-Fix Environmental Services has a one year low of $7.28 and a one year high of $16.25. The company has a market cap of $185.09 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -10.72 and a beta of 0.42.

Institutional Trading of Perma-Fix Environmental Services

Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in PESI. BNP Paribas Financial Markets raised its position in shares of Perma-Fix Environmental Services by 54.4% during the 3rd quarter. BNP Paribas Financial Markets now owns 6,994 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $86,000 after buying an additional 2,463 shares in the last quarter. MetLife Investment Management LLC raised its position in shares of Perma-Fix Environmental Services by 129.1% during the 3rd quarter. MetLife Investment Management LLC now owns 7,543 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $93,000 after buying an additional 4,250 shares in the last quarter. Marshall Wace LLP purchased a new position in Perma-Fix Environmental Services in the 2nd quarter worth $110,000. Rhumbline Advisers purchased a new position in Perma-Fix Environmental Services in the 2nd quarter worth $134,000. Finally, Jane Street Group LLC purchased a new position in Perma-Fix Environmental Services in the 3rd quarter worth $149,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 25.52% of the company’s stock.

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.