RSG vs. WM, ROL, CLH, TTEK, CWST, SRCL, ABM, SP, TISI, and WCN
Should you be buying Republic Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Republic Services include Waste Management (WM), Rollins (ROL), Clean Harbors (CLH), Tetra Tech (TTEK), Casella Waste Systems (CWST), Stericycle (SRCL), ABM Industries (ABM), SP Plus (SP), Team (TISI), and Waste Connections (WCN).
Republic Services (NYSE:RSG) and Waste Management (NYSE:WM) 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 risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, earnings and profitability.
Republic Services currently has a consensus target price of $201.14, indicating a potential upside of 7.59%. Waste Management has a consensus target price of $217.61, indicating a potential upside of 8.51%. Given Waste Management's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Waste Management is more favorable than Republic Services.
In the previous week, Waste Management had 12 more articles in the media than Republic Services. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Waste Management and 12 mentions for Republic Services. Republic Services' average media sentiment score of 1.63 beat Waste Management's score of 0.68 indicating that Republic Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Republic Services pays an annual dividend of $2.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Waste Management pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Republic Services pays out 37.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Waste Management pays out 49.1% 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.
Waste Management received 98 more outperform votes than Republic Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.90% of users gave Waste Management an outperform vote while only 64.86% of users gave Republic Services an outperform vote.
Republic Services has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Waste Management has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
57.7% of Republic Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.4% of Waste Management shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Republic Services shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Waste Management shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Waste Management has higher revenue and earnings than Republic Services. Republic Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Waste Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Waste Management has a net margin of 11.98% compared to Republic Services' net margin of 11.81%. Waste Management's return on equity of 38.61% beat Republic Services' return on equity.
Summary
Waste Management beats Republic Services on 18 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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