Perma-Fix Environmental Services (NASDAQ:PESI – Get Free Report) and Virco Manufacturing (NASDAQ:VIRC – Get Free Report) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Risk and Volatility
Perma-Fix Environmental Services has a beta of 0.47, meaning that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Virco Manufacturing has a beta of 0.2, meaning that its stock price is 80% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Perma-Fix Environmental Services and Virco Manufacturing”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Perma-Fix Environmental Services | $61.67 million | 6.35 | -$13.78 million | ($1.13) | -16.33 |
| Virco Manufacturing | $196.59 million | 0.48 | $2.57 million | ($0.06) | -101.00 |
Virco Manufacturing has higher revenue and earnings than Perma-Fix Environmental Services. Virco Manufacturing is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Perma-Fix Environmental Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent ratings for Perma-Fix Environmental Services and Virco Manufacturing, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Perma-Fix Environmental Services | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
| Virco Manufacturing | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.50 |
Profitability
This table compares Perma-Fix Environmental Services and Virco Manufacturing’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Perma-Fix Environmental Services | -37.04% | -35.46% | -20.22% |
| Virco Manufacturing | -0.48% | -0.16% | -0.10% |
Insider and Institutional Ownership
25.5% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.0% of Virco Manufacturing shares are held by institutional investors. 8.4% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.9% of Virco Manufacturing shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Virco Manufacturing beats Perma-Fix Environmental Services on 9 of the 12 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 Virco Manufacturing
Virco Mfg. Corporation engages in the design, production, and distribution of furniture in the United States and Canada. The company offers seating products, including 4-leg chairs, cantilever chairs, mobile task chairs and lab stools, tablet armchairs, steel-frame and floor rockers, series stools, hard plastic seating, folding and upholstered stack chairs, and plastic stack and upholstered ergonomic chairs. It also provides activity, butcher block, folding, office, technology, and mobile tables; desks and workstations, and instructor media stations and towers; chair desks and combo units, tablet arm and caster units, mobile workstations, student desks, and returns and credenzas; and computer furniture solutions. In addition, the company provides administrative office furniture, including desks, returns, bookcases, and other items, as well as steel storage cabinets, wardrobe tower cabinets, file credenzas, and mobile pedestals; laboratory furniture comprising steel-based science tables, table bases, lab stools, and wood-frame science tables; mobile furniture, such as mobile tables, mobile cabinets, and mobile chairs for school settings and offices; and handling and storage equipment, and stackable storage trucks. It serves public and private educational institutions, charter schools, convention centers and arenas, hospitality providers, government facilities, and places of worship through its sales and support teams, and dealers' network. Virco Mfg. Corporation was incorporated in 1950 and is headquartered in Torrance, California.
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