CART vs. WCN, TCOM, IQV, RDDT, CPAY, GIB, AER, TRU, KSPI, and Z
Should you be buying Maplebear stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Maplebear include Waste Connections (WCN), Trip.com Group (TCOM), IQVIA (IQV), Reddit (RDDT), Corpay (CPAY), CGI (GIB), AerCap (AER), TransUnion (TRU), Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz (KSPI), and Zillow Group (Z). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
Maplebear vs.
Maplebear (NASDAQ:CART) and Waste Connections (NYSE:WCN) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and community ranking.
Waste Connections has higher revenue and earnings than Maplebear. Maplebear is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Waste Connections, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Maplebear has a net margin of 13.37% compared to Waste Connections' net margin of 10.81%. Waste Connections' return on equity of 15.43% beat Maplebear's return on equity.
Maplebear has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Waste Connections has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
63.1% of Maplebear shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.1% of Waste Connections shares are owned by institutional investors. 36.0% of Maplebear 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 is poised for long-term growth.
Maplebear presently has a consensus price target of $48.96, suggesting a potential upside of 9.75%. Waste Connections has a consensus price target of $199.75, suggesting a potential upside of 11.94%. Given Waste Connections' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Waste Connections is more favorable than Maplebear.
Waste Connections received 813 more outperform votes than Maplebear when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.15% of users gave Waste Connections an outperform vote while only 57.78% of users gave Maplebear an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Waste Connections had 4 more articles in the media than Maplebear. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Waste Connections and 6 mentions for Maplebear. Waste Connections' average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Maplebear's score of 0.98 indicating that Waste Connections is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Waste Connections beats Maplebear on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:CART) was last updated on 1/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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