GFL vs. WCN, CNM, IPG, DOCU, CLH, PATH, WPP, MORN, PSN, and ESTC
Should you be buying GFL Environmental stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GFL Environmental include Waste Connections (WCN), Core & Main (CNM), Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), DocuSign (DOCU), Clean Harbors (CLH), UiPath (PATH), WPP (WPP), Morningstar (MORN), Parsons (PSN), and Elastic (ESTC). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Waste Connections (NYSE:WCN) and GFL Environmental (NYSE:GFL) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Waste Connections currently has a consensus target price of $179.33, suggesting a potential upside of 7.01%. GFL Environmental has a consensus target price of $43.08, suggesting a potential upside of 35.02%. Given Waste Connections' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe GFL Environmental is more favorable than Waste Connections.
Waste Connections pays an annual dividend of $1.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. GFL Environmental pays an annual dividend of $0.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Waste Connections pays out 37.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Waste Connections has increased its dividend for 7 consecutive years and GFL Environmental has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Waste Connections is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Waste Connections received 749 more outperform votes than GFL Environmental when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.13% of users gave Waste Connections an outperform vote while only 67.83% of users gave GFL Environmental an outperform vote.
86.1% of Waste Connections shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.7% of GFL Environmental shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Waste Connections shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.7% of GFL Environmental shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Waste Connections had 19 more articles in the media than GFL Environmental. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Waste Connections and 5 mentions for GFL Environmental. GFL Environmental's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat Waste Connections' score of 0.35 indicating that Waste Connections is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Waste Connections has a net margin of 9.70% compared to Waste Connections' net margin of 1.25%. GFL Environmental's return on equity of 14.66% beat Waste Connections' return on equity.
Waste Connections has higher revenue and earnings than GFL Environmental.
Waste Connections has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GFL Environmental has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Waste Connections beats GFL Environmental on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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