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Top 5 Companies in the Environmental & Facilities Services Industry Offering Investors the Best Value (ES, WCAA, PESI, VSR, MEA)

Written on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 5:28am
By Amy Schwartz

Below are the top five companies in the Environmental & Facilities Services industry as measured by the price to book ratio. Often companies with the lowest ratio present the greatest value to investors.
EnergySolutions (NYSE:ES) has a price to book ratio of 0.5x based on a current price of $3.03 and a book value per share of $5.6.
WCA Waste (NASDAQ:WCAA) has a price to book ratio of 0.6x based on a current price of $4.01 and a book value per share of $7.12.
Perma-Fix Environmental Services (NASDAQ:PESI) has a price to book ratio of 0.9x based on a current price of $1.24 and a book value per share of $1.45.
Versar (AMEX:VSR) has a price to book ratio of 1x based on a current price of $3.02 and a book value per share of $3.09.
Metalico (AMEX:MEA) has a price to book ratio of 1x based on a current price of $3.92 and a book value per share of $3.99.
SmarTrend currently has shares of EnergySolutions in an Downtrend and issued the Downtrend alert on March 31, 2011 at $5.92. The stock has fallen 48.9% since the Downtrend alert was issued.

Keywords: keywords: nyse:es energysolutions price to book ratio

Ticker(s): ES WCAA PESI MEA

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