CWST vs. ATKR, ZWS, SEE, SON, MSM, VMI, SLGN, TKR, FLS, and ESAB
Should you be buying Casella Waste Systems stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Casella Waste Systems include Atkore (ATKR), Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (ZWS), Sealed Air (SEE), Sonoco Products (SON), MSC Industrial Direct (MSM), Valmont Industries (VMI), Silgan (SLGN), Timken (TKR), Flowserve (FLS), and ESAB (ESAB). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Atkore (NYSE:ATKR) and Casella Waste Systems (NASDAQ:CWST) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, risk, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Casella Waste Systems received 23 more outperform votes than Atkore when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.79% of users gave Atkore an outperform vote while only 64.09% of users gave Casella Waste Systems an outperform vote.
Atkore presently has a consensus price target of $187.00, suggesting a potential upside of 23.14%. Casella Waste Systems has a consensus price target of $101.20, suggesting a potential upside of 2.69%. Given Casella Waste Systems' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Atkore is more favorable than Casella Waste Systems.
In the previous week, Atkore had 4 more articles in the media than Casella Waste Systems. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Atkore and 5 mentions for Casella Waste Systems. Casella Waste Systems' average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat Atkore's score of 0.48 indicating that Atkore is being referred to more favorably in the media.
99.5% of Casella Waste Systems shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of Atkore shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Casella Waste Systems shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Atkore has a beta of 2.19, suggesting that its share price is 119% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Casella Waste Systems has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Atkore has higher revenue and earnings than Casella Waste Systems. Atkore is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Casella Waste Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Atkore has a net margin of 18.30% compared to Atkore's net margin of 1.32%. Casella Waste Systems' return on equity of 43.19% beat Atkore's return on equity.
Summary
Atkore beats Casella Waste Systems on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding CWST and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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