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Casella Waste has a market cap of $178.3 million; its shares were traded at around $6.25 with and P/S ratio of 0.4. Casella Waste had an annual average earning growth of 1.9% over the past 10 years.
Highlight of Business Operations:Our cost of operations expense increased $4.5 million, or 5.9%, and $15.6 million, or 6.6%, when comparing the three and nine months ended January 31, 2012 to the comparable prior fiscal year periods. In the three and nine months ended January 31, 2012, cost of operations expense increased as a percentage of revenues when compared to the comparable prior fiscal year periods from 68.9% to 71.0% and from 66.6% to 68.1%. The period-to-period change in our cost of operations during the three and nine months ended January 31 can largely be attributed to the following:
Our general and administration expense decreased $0.9 million, or 6.1%, and $0.2 million, or 0.4%, when comparing the three and nine months ended January 31, 2012 to the comparable prior fiscal year periods. In the three and nine months ended January 31, 2012, general and administration expenses decreased as a percentage of revenues when compared to the comparable prior fiscal year periods from 13.3% to 12.2% and from 13.0% to 12.4%. The period-to-period change in our general and administration expense during the three and nine months ended January 31 can largely be attributed to the following:
· Our depreciation and amortization expense increased $1.3 million, or 9.6%, and decreased $0.4 million, or 0.9%, when comparing the three and nine months ended January 31, 2012 to the prior fiscal year periods. In the three months ended January 31, 2012, depreciation and amortization expense increased as a percentage of revenues when compared to the prior fiscal year period from 12.2% to 13.0%. In the nine months ended January 31, 2012, depreciation and amortization expense decreased as a percentage of revenue when compared to the prior fiscal year period from 12.6% to 11.9%. In the three and nine months ended January 31, 2012, landfill amortization expense increased by $0.8 million and decreased by $1.2 million, respectively, due to volume fluctuations at our landfills.
Our interest expense, net decreased $0.2 million, or 1.7%, and $1.2 million, or 3.4%, when comparing the three and nine months ended January 31, 2012 to the comparable prior fiscal year periods. In the three and nine months ended January 31, 2012, interest expense, net decreased as a percentage of revenues when compared to the comparable prior fiscal year periods from 10.4% to 10.0% and from 9.9% to 9.1%. The changes in our interest expense, net during the three and nine months ended January 31, 2012 can largely be attributed to the following:
Recycling revenues increased $0.1 million, or 0.9%, when comparing the three months ended January 31, 2012 to the comparable prior fiscal year period driven primarily by volume increases of $1.5 million significantly offset by unfavorable commodity pricing of $1.4 million. Recycling revenues increased $5.8 million, or 18.2%, when comparing the nine months ended January 31, 2012 to the comparable prior fiscal year period driven primarily by favorable commodity pricing of $5.9 million partially offset by volume decreases of $0.1 million.
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