Head-To-Head Contrast: Decent (NASDAQ:DXST) and Perma-Fix Environmental Services (NASDAQ:PESI)

Decent (NASDAQ:DXST) and Perma-Fix Environmental Services (NASDAQ:PESI) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership and valuation.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

25.5% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.4% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Decent and Perma-Fix Environmental Services’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Decent	N/A	N/A	N/A
Perma-Fix Environmental Services	-24.44%	-21.69%	-11.53%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Decent and Perma-Fix Environmental Services”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Decent	$4.33 million	3.81	N/A	N/A	N/A
Perma-Fix Environmental Services	$67.13 million	1.71	$490,000.00	($1.09)	-6.64

Perma-Fix Environmental Services has higher revenue and earnings than Decent.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Decent and Perma-Fix Environmental Services, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Decent	0	0	0	0	0.00
Perma-Fix Environmental Services	0	0	1	0	3.00

Perma-Fix Environmental Services has a consensus price target of $18.00, indicating a potential upside of 148.62%. Given Perma-Fix Environmental Services’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Perma-Fix Environmental Services is more favorable than Decent.

Summary

Perma-Fix Environmental Services beats Decent on 6 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

About Perma-Fix Environmental Services

Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as an environmental and technology know-how company in the United States. The company through Treatment and Services segments. The Treatment segment offers nuclear, low-level radioactive, mixed waste, hazardous and non-hazardous waste treatment, and processing and disposal services through treatment and storage facilities. This segment is also involved in the research and development activities to identify, develop, and implement waste processing techniques for problematic waste streams. The Services segment provides technical services, including professional radiological measurement and site survey of government and commercial installations; health physics services; integrated occupational safety and health services; and consulting, engineering, project and waste management, environmental, decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) field, technical and management personnel and services; and waste management services. This segment also offers nuclear services, including D&D of government and commercial facilities, including engineering, technology applications, specialty services, logistics, transportation, processing, and disposal; and license termination support, such as project management, planning, characterization, waste stream identification and delineation, remediation/demolition, compliance demonstration, final status survey, reporting, transportation, disposal and emergency response. In addition, it maintains, services, maintains, calibrates, and sources health physics, IH and customized nuclear, environmental, and occupational safety and health instruments. The company provides its services to research institutions, commercial companies, public utilities, and governmental agencies through direct sales to customers or through intermediaries. Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc. was incorporated in 1990 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.