ICLR vs. WCN, TCOM, IQV, CPAY, GIB, RDDT, AER, KSPI, GFL, and GRAB
Should you be buying ICON Public stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ICON Public include Waste Connections (WCN), Trip.com Group (TCOM), IQVIA (IQV), Corpay (CPAY), CGI (GIB), Reddit (RDDT), AerCap (AER), Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz (KSPI), GFL Environmental (GFL), and Grab (GRAB). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
ICON Public vs.
Waste Connections (NYSE:WCN) and ICON Public (NASDAQ:ICLR) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability and valuation.
Waste Connections has higher revenue and earnings than ICON Public. ICON Public is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Waste Connections, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ICON Public has a net margin of 9.56% compared to Waste Connections' net margin of 6.92%. Waste Connections' return on equity of 15.54% beat ICON Public's return on equity.
In the previous week, ICON Public had 4 more articles in the media than Waste Connections. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for ICON Public and 24 mentions for Waste Connections. Waste Connections' average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat ICON Public's score of 0.09 indicating that Waste Connections is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Waste Connections has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ICON Public has a beta of 1.21, meaning that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Waste Connections received 244 more outperform votes than ICON Public when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.11% of users gave Waste Connections an outperform vote while only 65.65% of users gave ICON Public an outperform vote.
Waste Connections presently has a consensus price target of $202.43, indicating a potential upside of 5.00%. ICON Public has a consensus price target of $272.50, indicating a potential upside of 52.18%. Given ICON Public's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe ICON Public is more favorable than Waste Connections.
86.1% of Waste Connections shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.6% of ICON Public shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Waste Connections shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 44.0% of ICON Public shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Waste Connections beats ICON Public on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:ICLR) was last updated on 3/30/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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