WCN vs. PDD, SPGI, UBER, FISV, MELI, RELX, DASH, PYPL, TCOM, and IQV
Should you be buying Waste Connections stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Waste Connections include PDD (PDD), S&P Global (SPGI), Uber Technologies (UBER), Fiserv (FISV), MercadoLibre (MELI), Relx (RELX), DoorDash (DASH), PayPal (PYPL), Trip.com Group (TCOM), and IQVIA (IQV). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
Waste Connections vs.
Waste Connections (NYSE:WCN) and PDD (NASDAQ:PDD) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and risk.
Waste Connections currently has a consensus target price of $201.00, suggesting a potential upside of 7.46%. PDD has a consensus target price of $173.40, suggesting a potential upside of 32.48%. Given PDD's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe PDD is more favorable than Waste Connections.
PDD has higher revenue and earnings than Waste Connections. PDD is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Waste Connections, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, PDD had 6 more articles in the media than Waste Connections. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for PDD and 24 mentions for Waste Connections. PDD's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Waste Connections' score of 0.35 indicating that PDD is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PDD has a net margin of 29.05% compared to Waste Connections' net margin of 6.92%. PDD's return on equity of 46.08% beat Waste Connections' return on equity.
Waste Connections received 428 more outperform votes than PDD when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.11% of users gave Waste Connections an outperform vote while only 59.43% of users gave PDD an outperform vote.
Waste Connections has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PDD has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
86.1% of Waste Connections shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.8% of PDD shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Waste Connections shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of PDD shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
PDD beats Waste Connections on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:WCN) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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