CWST vs. ROLL, HI, KFY, CR, HTZ, ESGLW, LNZAW, BLDP, YELL, and DSKE
Should you be buying Casella Waste Systems stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Casella Waste Systems include RBC Bearings (ROLL), Hillenbrand (HI), Korn Ferry (KFY), Crane (CR), Hertz Global (HTZ), ESGL (ESGLW), LanzaTech Global (LNZAW), Ballard Power Systems (BLDP), Yellow (YELL), and Daseke (DSKE).
Casella Waste Systems (NASDAQ:CWST) and RBC Bearings (NASDAQ:ROLL) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Casella Waste Systems had 11 more articles in the media than RBC Bearings. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Casella Waste Systems and 1 mentions for RBC Bearings. RBC Bearings' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Casella Waste Systems' score of -0.13 indicating that RBC Bearings is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Casella Waste Systems has a net margin of 1.32% compared to RBC Bearings' net margin of 0.00%. Casella Waste Systems' return on equity of 4.48% beat RBC Bearings' return on equity.
99.5% of Casella Waste Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.2% of Casella Waste Systems shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of RBC Bearings shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Casella Waste Systems received 373 more outperform votes than RBC Bearings when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.09% of users gave Casella Waste Systems an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave RBC Bearings an outperform vote.
Casella Waste Systems has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RBC Bearings has a beta of 1.34, suggesting that its share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Casella Waste Systems presently has a consensus price target of $99.71, indicating a potential upside of 9.79%. Given Casella Waste Systems' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Casella Waste Systems is more favorable than RBC Bearings.
RBC Bearings has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Casella Waste Systems. RBC Bearings 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.
Summary
Casella Waste Systems beats RBC Bearings on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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