Analyzing Decent (NASDAQ:DXST) and Clean Harbors (NYSE:CLH)

Clean Harbors (NYSE:CLH) and Decent (NASDAQ:DXST) are both business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Clean Harbors and Decent, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Clean Harbors	0	1	7	1	3.00
Decent	0	0	0	0	0.00

Clean Harbors presently has a consensus target price of $270.56, suggesting a potential upside of 33.90%. Given Clean Harbors’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Clean Harbors is more favorable than Decent.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Clean Harbors and Decent”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Clean Harbors	$5.89 billion	1.85	$377.86 million	$7.42	27.23
Decent	$4.33 million	4.13	N/A	N/A	N/A

Clean Harbors has higher revenue and earnings than Decent.

Profitability

This table compares Clean Harbors and Decent’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Clean Harbors	6.83%	16.33%	5.60%
Decent	N/A	N/A	N/A

Insider and Institutional Ownership

90.4% of Clean Harbors shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.9% of Clean Harbors shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Clean Harbors beats Decent on 10 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Clean Harbors

Clean Harbors, Inc. provides environmental and industrial services in the United States and internationally. The company operates through two segments, Environmental Services and Safety-Kleen Sustainability Solutions. The Environmental Services segment collects, transports, treats, and disposes hazardous and non-hazardous waste, such as resource recovery, physical treatment, fuel blending, incineration, landfill disposal, wastewater treatment, lab chemicals disposal, and explosives management services; and offers CleanPack services, including collection, identification, categorization, specialized packaging, transportation, and disposal of laboratory chemicals and household hazardous waste. This segment also provides industrial maintenance and specialty industrial services; and utilizes specialty equipment and resources that performs field services. The Safety-Kleen Sustainability Solutions segment provides pickup and transportation services for hazardous and non-hazardous containerized waste for recycling or disposal; machine cleaning and maintenance, and disposal and replenishment of clean solvent or aqueous fluids; and vacuum services to remove solids, residual oily water, and sludge and other fluids from customers' oil/water separators, sumps, and collection tanks, as well as removes and collects waste fluids found at large and small industrial locations, including metal fabricators, auto maintenance providers, and general manufacturers. This segment also manufactures, formulates, packages, distributes, and markets lubricants and other automotive products. Clean Harbors, Inc. was incorporated in 1980 and is headquartered in Norwell, Massachusetts.

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.