Contrasting National Waste Management (OTCMKTS:NWMH) & Aris Water Solutions (NYSE:ARIS)

National Waste Management (OTCMKTS:NWMH) and Aris Water Solutions (NYSE:ARIS) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, risk and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for National Waste Management and Aris Water Solutions, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
National Waste Management	0	0	0	0	0.00
Aris Water Solutions	0	7	2	0	2.22

Aris Water Solutions has a consensus price target of $26.50, indicating a potential upside of 9.98%. Given Aris Water Solutions’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Aris Water Solutions is more favorable than National Waste Management.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares National Waste Management and Aris Water Solutions”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
National Waste Management	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Aris Water Solutions	$475.50 million	3.00	$26.86 million	$0.83	29.03

Aris Water Solutions has higher revenue and earnings than National Waste Management.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

39.7% of Aris Water Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. 95.6% of National Waste Management shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 37.8% of Aris Water Solutions shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares National Waste Management and Aris Water Solutions’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
National Waste Management	N/A	N/A	N/A
Aris Water Solutions	6.00%	3.77%	1.99%

Summary

Aris Water Solutions beats National Waste Management on 8 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About National Waste Management

National Waste Management Holdings, Inc. operates as a waste management company in Upstate New York and Central Florida. The company offers construction and demolition landfill services; and commercial and residential dumpster services and roll-off boxes for construction and clean-up projects specializing in the removal of debris, garbage, waste, hauling construction, and demolition debris. It also provides trash collection services, roll-off services, and a full service transfer station; and wood grinding, demolition, mulch, and gravel services for the industrial and residential markets. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Hernando, Florida.

About Aris Water Solutions

Aris Water Solutions, Inc., an environmental infrastructure and solutions company, provides water handling and recycling solutions. The company's produced water handling business gathers, transports, unless recycled, and handles produced water generated from oil and natural gas production. Its water solutions business develops and operates recycling facilities to treat, store, and recycle produced water. Aris Water Solutions, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.