GFL vs. WCN, CWST, QRHC, VIVK, AWX, ESGL, WM, RSG, PAYX, and FIS
Should you be buying GFL Environmental stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GFL Environmental include Waste Connections (WCN), Casella Waste Systems (CWST), Quest Resource (QRHC), Vivakor (VIVK), Avalon (AWX), ESGL (ESGL), Waste Management (WM), Republic Services (RSG), Paychex (PAYX), and Fidelity National Information Services (FIS).
GFL Environmental (NYSE:GFL) and Waste Connections (NYSE:WCN) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, profitability, dividends, earnings, community ranking and media sentiment.
64.7% of GFL Environmental shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.1% of Waste Connections shares are held by institutional investors. 8.7% of GFL Environmental shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Waste Connections shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
GFL Environmental has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Waste Connections has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
GFL Environmental currently has a consensus price target of $43.08, indicating a potential upside of 39.93%. Waste Connections has a consensus price target of $179.94, indicating a potential upside of 11.70%. Given GFL Environmental's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe GFL Environmental is more favorable than Waste Connections.
Waste Connections has a net margin of 9.70% compared to GFL Environmental's net margin of 1.25%. Waste Connections' return on equity of 14.66% beat GFL Environmental's return on equity.
GFL Environmental pays an annual dividend of $0.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Waste Connections pays an annual dividend of $1.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Waste Connections pays out 37.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Waste Connections received 750 more outperform votes than GFL Environmental when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.16% of users gave Waste Connections an outperform vote while only 67.83% of users gave GFL Environmental an outperform vote.
Waste Connections has higher revenue and earnings than GFL Environmental.
In the previous week, Waste Connections had 8 more articles in the media than GFL Environmental. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Waste Connections and 5 mentions for GFL Environmental. GFL Environmental's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat Waste Connections' score of 0.44 indicating that GFL Environmental is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Waste Connections beats GFL Environmental on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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