Waste Connections (NYSE:WCN) and Decent (NASDAQ:DXST) Critical Survey

Waste Connections (NYSE:WCN) and Decent (NASDAQ:DXST) are both business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability and risk.

Volatility and Risk

Waste Connections has a beta of 0.61, indicating that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Decent has a beta of 3.03, indicating that its share price is 203% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Waste Connections and Decent’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Waste Connections	11.37%	16.25%	6.41%
Decent	N/A	N/A	N/A

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Waste Connections and Decent, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Waste Connections	0	4	14	4	3.00
Decent	1	0	0	0	1.00

Waste Connections presently has a consensus price target of $202.81, suggesting a potential upside of 26.78%. Given Waste Connections’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Waste Connections is more favorable than Decent.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Waste Connections and Decent”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Waste Connections	$9.47 billion	4.31	$1.08 billion	$4.17	38.36
Decent	$12.95 million	0.18	-$320,000.00	N/A	N/A

Waste Connections has higher revenue and earnings than Decent.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

86.1% of Waste Connections shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Waste Connections shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Waste Connections beats Decent on 12 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Waste Connections

Waste Connections, Inc. provides non-hazardous waste collection, transfer, disposal, and resource recovery services in the United States and Canada. It offers collection services to residential, commercial, municipal, industrial, and exploration and production (E&P) customers; landfill disposal services; and recycling services for various recyclable materials, including compost, cardboard, mixed paper, plastic containers, glass bottles, and ferrous and aluminum metals. The company owns and operates transfer stations that receive compact and/or load waste to be transported to landfills or treatment facilities through truck, rail, or barge; and intermodal services for the rail haul movement of cargo and solid waste containers in the Pacific Northwest through a network of intermodal facilities. In addition, it provides E&P waste treatment, recovery, and disposal services for waste resulting from oil and natural gas exploration and production activity, such as drilling fluids, drill cuttings, completion fluids, and flowback water; production wastes and produced water during a well's operating life; contaminated soils that require treatment during site reclamation; and substances, which require clean-up after a spill, reserve pit clean-up, or pipeline rupture. Further, the company offers leasing services to its customers. Waste Connections, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is based in Woodbridge, Canada.

About Decent

Decent Holding, Inc. engages in the provision of wastewater treatment by cleansing the industrial wastewater, ecological river restoration, and river ecosystem management. Its products and services include river water quality management and microbial products for water quality enhancement and pollutant cleansing purposes. The company was founded by Ding Xin Sun on January 6, 2022 and is headquartered in Yantai, China.