Perma-Fix Environmental Services (NASDAQ:PESI) & BlastGard International (OTCMKTS:HCGS) Critical Review

BlastGard International (OTCMKTS:HCGS) and Perma-Fix Environmental Services (NASDAQ:PESI) are both industrials 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 BlastGard International and Perma-Fix Environmental Services, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
BlastGard International	0	0	0	0	0.00
Perma-Fix Environmental Services	1	0	0	0	1.00

Given BlastGard International’s higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe BlastGard International is more favorable than Perma-Fix Environmental Services.

Profitability

This table compares BlastGard International and Perma-Fix Environmental Services’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
BlastGard International	N/A	N/A	N/A
Perma-Fix Environmental Services	-31.25%	-21.73%	-13.38%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares BlastGard International and Perma-Fix Environmental Services”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
BlastGard International	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Perma-Fix Environmental Services	$60.02 million	4.00	-$19.98 million	($1.13)	-11.51

BlastGard International has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Perma-Fix Environmental Services.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

25.5% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services shares are held by institutional investors. 16.0% of BlastGard International shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.9% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services 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.

Risk & Volatility

BlastGard International has a beta of -4.28, indicating that its share price is 528% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Perma-Fix Environmental Services has a beta of 0.24, indicating that its share price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

BlastGard International beats Perma-Fix Environmental Services on 5 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About BlastGard International

HighCom Global Security, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and distributes security products and personal protective gears in the United States and internationally. The company offers ballistic helmets, hard armor plates, soft armor vests, and ballistic shields. It also provides BlastWrap, a blast mitigation technology that contains explosions and suppresses resulting flash fires. The company was formerly known as BlastGard International, Inc. and changed its name to HighCom Global Security, Inc. in June 2017. HighCom Global Security, Inc. was incorporated in 2003 and is based in Columbus, Ohio.

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.