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 stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations and dividends.
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 company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Waste Connections shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
GFL Environmental presently has a consensus target price of $43.08, suggesting a potential upside of 33.34%. Waste Connections has a consensus target price of $179.33, suggesting a potential upside of 7.14%. Given GFL Environmental's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe GFL Environmental is more favorable than Waste Connections.
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%. Waste Connections pays out 37.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Waste Connections has higher revenue and earnings than GFL Environmental.
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.
GFL Environmental has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Waste Connections has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, GFL Environmental had 2 more articles in the media than Waste Connections. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for GFL Environmental and 9 mentions for Waste Connections. Waste Connections' average media sentiment score of 0.36 beat GFL Environmental's score of 0.19 indicating that Waste Connections is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
Summary
Waste Connections beats GFL Environmental on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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