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Avalon Holdings Corp. helps industrial, commercial and public-sector customers arrange the removal, transport and disposal of hazardous and nonhazardous waste. Customers pay Avalon to manage that process using outside transporters and approved treatment and disposal facilities; its brokerage business does not own landfills or collect waste itself. Waste services bring in slightly more revenue than its golf and resort operations, with brokerage and management supplying most of the waste revenue. This business depends on access to disposal facilities, their prices and customers that often have no long-term contracts. Restrictions on moving waste across state lines can also limit its work.
Avalon also manages a customer-owned landfill whose revenue depends on that sole customer's waste volume. Separately, one waste-services customer supplies a meaningful share of company revenue. Avalon has a minority ownership interest and managerial control in saltwater disposal wells, but those wells are currently shut down under a state regulator's order and generate no operating revenue.
The other substantial business connects Avalon Golf and Country Club with The Grand Resort. Members pay annual dues for access to club and resort amenities, while members, public visitors and hotel guests pay for lodging, dining, golf and related services. Members are the main revenue source for the golf courses, making annual membership sales and renewals important. The courses in northeast Ohio and western Pennsylvania also depend heavily on golf-season weather.
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Quest Resource Holding Corporation shares Avalon's dependence on outside providers: both charge business customers to arrange waste transportation, treatment and disposal rather than owning substantial disposal assets. Watch Quest's costs for third-party services, since Avalon also faces disposal-price increases it may not be able to pass on.
Republic Services competes for the industrial waste business that pays Avalon to manage hazardous and nonhazardous waste, but also operates its own treatment and disposal facilities. Its industrial waste and environmental solutions contract wins are worth watching for competition facing Avalon.
Waste Management competes for Avalon's industrial and commercial customers by collecting and disposing of their waste through its extensive landfill network, while Avalon arranges disposal through outside providers. Watch Waste Management's commercial and industrial service pricing: Avalon relies on finding cost-efficient disposal options to retain customers.
Casella Waste Systems Inc competes with Avalon for paying industrial and commercial customers needing nonhazardous waste disposal in northeastern U.S. markets, including Pennsylvania. Its collection and disposal pricing in those markets is a useful comparison for Avalon's customer-tailored disposal offers.
Waste Connections competes with Avalon to handle nonhazardous waste for industrial, commercial and municipal customers; it charges for collection, transfer and disposal, while Avalon arranges transportation and disposal. Watch its disposal-site positioning, which it identifies as a cost advantage because transporting waste is expensive.
GFL Environmental competes with Avalon's disposal-management services by charging U.S. commercial and industrial customers to transport and dispose of waste. Watch GFL's price increases and surcharges to offset costs, against Avalon's warning that competition may force it to absorb some disposal-price increases.
GFL Environmental Inc. earningsGFL
GFL Environmental's price increases and surcharges for U.S. business customers will show whether waste-service providers can pass rising costs on, a pressure Avalon also faces in disposal.
Read GFL's price increases and surcharges alongside its costs and customer response. If higher charges offset costs and customers accept them, providers have more ability to pass disposal costs through, making Avalon less exposed to margin pressure; if costs outpace pricing or customers resist, Avalon may have to absorb more of the increase.
Casella Waste Systems Inc earningsCWST
Casella Waste Systems' collection and disposal pricing in the Northeast will show what local customers are being asked to pay in a market where Avalon also competes for waste-management business.
Read Casella's collection and disposal pricing alongside whether customers accept its offers. If higher prices hold, local providers may have room to pass through disposal costs, giving Avalon more support for its own pricing; if winning customers requires lower offers, Avalon may have less room to raise prices when its costs increase.
Quest Resource Holding Corporation earningsQRHC
Quest Resource arranges waste transport, treatment and disposal for business customers and pays outside providers, so its costs offer a read on the supplier pressure Avalon also faces.
Check whether Quest's costs for outside transport, treatment and disposal providers are rising faster than the related revenue. If costs pull ahead, providers that rely on outside disposal may lose margin, making it harder for Avalon to protect its own; if costs stay contained while revenue keeps pace, the pressure on that model is lighter.
