GFL vs. WCN, TFII, STN, RBA, TIH, CAE, EFN, AC, BBD.B, and FTT
Should you be buying GFL Environmental stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GFL Environmental include Waste Connections (WCN), TFI International (TFII), Stantec (STN), RB Global (RBA), Toromont Industries (TIH), CAE (CAE), Element Fleet Management (EFN), Air Canada (AC), Bombardier, Inc. Class B (BBD.B), and Finning International (FTT). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
GFL Environmental (TSE:GFL) and Waste Connections (TSE:WCN) are both large-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership and earnings.
Waste Connections received 242 more outperform votes than GFL Environmental when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave GFL Environmental an outperform vote while only 69.27% of users gave Waste Connections an outperform vote.
Waste Connections has higher revenue and earnings than GFL Environmental.
In the previous week, Waste Connections had 9 more articles in the media than GFL Environmental. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Waste Connections and 1 mentions for GFL Environmental. Waste Connections' average media sentiment score of -0.14 beat GFL Environmental's score of -0.72 indicating that Waste Connections is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
79.4% of GFL Environmental shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.1% of Waste Connections shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of GFL Environmental shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Waste Connections shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
GFL Environmental pays an annual dividend of C$0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Waste Connections pays an annual dividend of C$1.57 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Waste Connections pays out 37.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
GFL Environmental has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Waste Connections has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Waste Connections has a consensus price target of C$193.10, suggesting a potential downside of 15.31%. Given Waste Connections' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Waste Connections is more favorable than GFL Environmental.
Waste Connections has a net margin of 9.70% compared to GFL Environmental's net margin of 1.22%. Waste Connections' return on equity of 10.57% beat GFL Environmental's return on equity.
Summary
Waste Connections beats GFL Environmental on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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