GFL Environmental (GFL) Competitors

GFL Environmental (NYSE:GFL) and PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, profitability, risk, earnings, institutional ownership and media sentiment.

Which has more volatility and risk, GFL or PYPL?

GFL Environmental has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PayPal has a beta of 1.52, suggesting that its stock price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Which has higher earnings and valuation, GFL or PYPL?

PayPal has higher revenue and earnings than GFL Environmental. GFL Environmental is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PayPal, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
GFL Environmental	$7.86B	2.42	$33.63M	-$1.55	-31.20
PayPal	$31.80B	2.21	$4.15B	$4.01	17.68

Does the media favor GFL or PYPL?

In the previous week, PayPal had 49 more articles in the media than GFL Environmental. MarketBeat recorded 58 mentions for PayPal and 9 mentions for GFL Environmental. PayPal's average media sentiment score of 1.31 beat GFL Environmental's score of 0.91 indicating that PayPal is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
GFL Environmental	5 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
PayPal	41 Very Positive mention(s)	7 Positive mention(s)	9 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Do analysts rate GFL or PYPL?

GFL Environmental presently has a consensus price target of $49.63, indicating a potential upside of 2.60%. PayPal has a consensus price target of $90.03, indicating a potential upside of 27.00%. Given PayPal's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe PayPal is more favorable than GFL Environmental.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
GFL Environmental	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	9 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.90
PayPal	0 Sell rating(s)	14 Hold rating(s)	20 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.63

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in GFL or PYPL?

64.7% of GFL Environmental shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.3% of PayPal shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.7% of GFL Environmental shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of PayPal 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.

Is GFL or PYPL more profitable?

PayPal has a net margin of 13.04% compared to GFL Environmental's net margin of -7.54%. PayPal's return on equity of 23.67% beat GFL Environmental's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
GFL Environmental	-7.54%	3.50%	1.25%
PayPal	13.04%	23.67%	5.83%

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer GFL or PYPL?

PayPal received 1724 more outperform votes than GFL Environmental when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.50% of users gave PayPal an outperform vote while only 70.06% of users gave GFL Environmental an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
GFL Environmental	Outperform Votes 110 70.06%	Underperform Votes 47 29.94%
PayPal	Outperform Votes 1834 75.50%	Underperform Votes 595 24.50%

Summary

PayPal beats GFL Environmental on 16 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.