GFL vs. WCN, GEN, CNM, MORN, DOCU, RBA, IPG, CLH, RTO, and PATH
Should you be buying GFL Environmental stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GFL Environmental include Waste Connections (WCN), Gen Digital (GEN), Core & Main (CNM), Morningstar (MORN), DocuSign (DOCU), RB Global (RBA), Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), Clean Harbors (CLH), Rentokil Initial (RTO), and UiPath (PATH). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
GFL Environmental (NYSE:GFL) and Waste Connections (NYSE:WCN) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings, valuation and dividends.
Waste Connections has higher revenue and earnings than GFL Environmental. GFL Environmental is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Waste Connections, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
GFL Environmental has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Waste Connections has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
GFL Environmental currently has a consensus price target of $43.08, suggesting a potential upside of 32.83%. Waste Connections has a consensus price target of $179.33, suggesting a potential upside of 8.00%. Given GFL Environmental's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe GFL Environmental is more favorable than Waste Connections.
Waste Connections received 748 more outperform votes than GFL Environmental when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.11% of users gave Waste Connections an outperform vote while only 67.83% of users gave GFL Environmental an outperform vote.
Waste Connections has a net margin of 9.70% compared to GFL Environmental's net margin of 1.25%. Waste Connections' return on equity of 14.66% beat GFL Environmental's return on equity.
64.7% of GFL Environmental shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.1% of Waste Connections shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.7% of GFL Environmental shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Waste Connections shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Waste Connections had 6 more articles in the media than GFL Environmental. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Waste Connections and 7 mentions for GFL Environmental. GFL Environmental's average media sentiment score of 0.36 beat Waste Connections' score of 0.35 indicating that GFL Environmental is being referred to more favorably in the media.
GFL Environmental pays an annual dividend of $0.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Waste Connections pays an annual dividend of $1.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. GFL Environmental pays out 5.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Waste Connections pays out 37.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Summary
Waste Connections beats GFL Environmental on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get GFL Environmental News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for GFL and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding GFL and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
GFL Environmental Competitors List
Related Companies and Tools
