Head-To-Head Contrast: GD Culture Group (NASDAQ:GDC) vs. Casella Waste Systems (NASDAQ:CWST)

GD Culture Group (NASDAQ:GDC) and Casella Waste Systems (NASDAQ:CWST) are both business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for GD Culture Group and Casella Waste Systems, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
GD Culture Group	0	0	0	0	0.00
Casella Waste Systems	0	2	5	1	2.88

Casella Waste Systems has a consensus price target of $122.67, suggesting a potential upside of 6.37%. Given Casella Waste Systems’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Casella Waste Systems is more favorable than GD Culture Group.

Profitability

This table compares GD Culture Group and Casella Waste Systems’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
GD Culture Group	N/A	-483.18%	-232.75%
Casella Waste Systems	0.79%	4.69%	2.20%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares GD Culture Group and Casella Waste Systems”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
GD Culture Group	N/A	N/A	-$13.84 million	($1.03)	-3.17
Casella Waste Systems	$1.56 billion	4.70	$13.54 million	$0.22	524.20

Casella Waste Systems has higher revenue and earnings than GD Culture Group. GD Culture Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Casella Waste Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

0.6% of GD Culture Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.5% of Casella Waste Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of GD Culture Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of Casella Waste Systems shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility & Risk

GD Culture Group has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Casella Waste Systems has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Casella Waste Systems beats GD Culture Group on 13 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About GD Culture Group

GD Culture Group Limited operates as an integrated marketing service agency. The company focuses on enterprise brand management, crisis public relations, intelligent public opinion monitoring, media PR, financial and economic we-media operation, digital face application, exhibition services, and other businesses. It also publishes books in corporate history, finance, and economics, as well as plans and organizes online and offline activities, such as new book launches and book sharing sessions to promote new books and build influence and reputation for the corporate clients. The company was formerly known as Code Chain New Continent Limited and changed its name to GD Culture Group Limited in January 2023. GD Culture Group Limited is based in Wan Chai, Hong Kong.

About Casella Waste Systems

Casella Waste Systems, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a vertically integrated solid waste services company in the United States. It offers resource management services primarily in the areas of solid waste collection and disposal, transfer, recycling, and organics services to residential, commercial, municipal, institutional, and industrial customers. The company provides non-hazardous solid waste services, including collections, transfer stations, recycling, and disposal operations. In addition, it markets materials, including fibers, corrugated cardboard, newsprint, plastics, glass, ferrous, and aluminum metals. Casella Waste Systems, Inc. was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Rutland, Vermont.