Quest Resource Holding Corporation (NASDAQ:QRHC) and Advanced Disposal Services Inc. (NYSE:ADSW) have been rivals in the Waste Management for quite some time. Below is a review of each business including various aspects such as analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation, institutional ownership.

Valuation and Earnings

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Quest Resource Holding Corporation	103.81M	0.26	2.44M	-0.27	0.00
Advanced Disposal Services Inc.	1.56B	1.56	9.40M	0.11	253.90

Table 1 demonstrates Quest Resource Holding Corporation and Advanced Disposal Services Inc.’s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

Profitability

Table 2 has Quest Resource Holding Corporation and Advanced Disposal Services Inc.’s return on assets, return on equity and net margins.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Quest Resource Holding Corporation	-2.35%	-6.7%	-5%
Advanced Disposal Services Inc.	0.60%	1%	0.3%

Liquidity

Quest Resource Holding Corporation’s Current Ratio is 1.2 while its Quick Ratio is 1.2. On the competitive side is, Advanced Disposal Services Inc. which has a 0.7 Current Ratio and a 0.7 Quick Ratio. Quest Resource Holding Corporation is better positioned to pay off short and long-term obligations compared to Advanced Disposal Services Inc.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

The shares of both Quest Resource Holding Corporation and Advanced Disposal Services Inc. are owned by institutional investors at 14% and 0% respectively. Quest Resource Holding Corporation’s share held by insiders are 0.2%. Comparatively, 0.7% are Advanced Disposal Services Inc.’s share held by insiders.

Performance

Here are the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of both pretenders.

	Performance (W)	Performance (M)	Performance (Q)	Performance (HY)	Performance (Y)	Performance (YTD)
Quest Resource Holding Corporation	3.51%	6.92%	9.76%	-21%	-25.32%	20.25%
Advanced Disposal Services Inc.	-0.11%	5.79%	-0.11%	1.14%	23.31%	11.36%

For the past year Quest Resource Holding Corporation was more bullish than Advanced Disposal Services Inc.

Summary

Advanced Disposal Services Inc. beats Quest Resource Holding Corporation on 9 of the 11 factors.

Advanced Disposal Services, Inc. provides non-hazardous solid waste collection, transfer, recycling, and disposal services. It is involved in the curbside collection of residential refuse from small carts or containers into collection vehicles for transport to a disposal/recycling site. The company also supplies commercial and industrial customers with waste containers; rents or sells compactors to large waste generators; and provides roll-off containers, as well as waste collection, transportation, and disposal services to construction and demolition sites. In addition, it offers landfill disposal services; and manages or operates recycling facilities that collect, process, and sell old corrugated cardboard, old newspaper, mixed paper, aluminum, glass, and other materials, as well as provides customer services. Further, the company engages in trucking activities; and landfill gas-to-energy operations at municipal solid waste landfills, as well as manages third-party owned landfills. It serves approximately 2.8 million residential customers; 200,000 commercial and industrial customers; and 800 municipalities in the Southeast, Midwest, and Eastern regions of the United States, as well as the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. The company was formerly known as ADS Waste Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Advanced Disposal Services, Inc. in January 2016. Advanced Disposal Services, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Ponte Vedra, Florida.