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.
PDD (NASDAQ:PDD) and Waste Connections (NYSE:WCN) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, dividends and risk.
PDD has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Waste Connections has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
39.8% of PDD shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.1% of Waste Connections shares are held by institutional investors. 3.7% of PDD shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Waste Connections shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, PDD had 45 more articles in the media than Waste Connections. MarketBeat recorded 65 mentions for PDD and 20 mentions for Waste Connections. Waste Connections' average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat PDD's score of 0.51 indicating that Waste Connections is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PDD presently has a consensus price target of $169.91, suggesting a potential upside of 32.62%. Waste Connections has a consensus price target of $202.43, suggesting a potential upside of 6.05%. Given PDD's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe PDD is more favorable than Waste Connections.
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 426 more outperform votes than PDD when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.11% of users gave Waste Connections an outperform vote while only 59.30% of users gave PDD an outperform vote.
Summary
PDD and Waste Connections tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:WCN) was last updated on 3/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
