ULS vs. WCN, TCOM, IQV, RDDT, GIB, CPAY, AER, TOST, GRAB, and RBA
Should you be buying UL Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of UL Solutions include Waste Connections (WCN), Trip.com Group (TCOM), IQVIA (IQV), Reddit (RDDT), CGI Group (GIB), Corpay (CPAY), Aercap (AER), Toast (TOST), Grab (GRAB), and RB Global (RBA). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
UL Solutions vs. Its Competitors
UL Solutions (NYSE:ULS) and Waste Connections (NYSE:WCN) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends and valuation.
Waste Connections has higher revenue and earnings than UL Solutions. UL Solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Waste Connections, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
UL Solutions currently has a consensus target price of $69.43, indicating a potential downside of 1.77%. Waste Connections has a consensus target price of $212.29, indicating a potential upside of 18.03%. Given Waste Connections' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Waste Connections is more favorable than UL Solutions.
UL Solutions has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Waste Connections has a beta of 0.6, meaning that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
86.1% of Waste Connections shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of UL Solutions 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 endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
UL Solutions has a net margin of 11.60% compared to Waste Connections' net margin of 6.93%. UL Solutions' return on equity of 40.79% beat Waste Connections' return on equity.
UL Solutions pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Waste Connections pays an annual dividend of $1.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. UL Solutions pays out 31.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Waste Connections pays out 51.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Waste Connections has increased its dividend for 8 consecutive years. UL Solutions is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Waste Connections had 27 more articles in the media than UL Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Waste Connections and 2 mentions for UL Solutions. UL Solutions' average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Waste Connections' score of 0.54 indicating that UL Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Waste Connections beats UL Solutions on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:ULS) was last updated on 7/7/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
