CWST vs. ATKR, ZWS, SEE, SON, MSM, VMI, SLGN, TKR, FLS, and ESAB
Should you be buying Casella Waste Systems stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Casella Waste Systems include Atkore (ATKR), Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (ZWS), Sealed Air (SEE), Sonoco Products (SON), MSC Industrial Direct (MSM), Valmont Industries (VMI), Silgan (SLGN), Timken (TKR), Flowserve (FLS), and ESAB (ESAB). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Casella Waste Systems (NASDAQ:CWST) and Atkore (NYSE:ATKR) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk and earnings.
Atkore has a net margin of 18.30% compared to Casella Waste Systems' net margin of 1.32%. Atkore's return on equity of 43.19% beat Casella Waste Systems' return on equity.
99.5% of Casella Waste Systems shares are held by institutional investors. 4.2% of Casella Waste Systems shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Atkore shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Atkore has higher revenue and earnings than Casella Waste Systems. Atkore is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Casella Waste Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Casella Waste Systems has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Atkore has a beta of 2.19, suggesting that its share price is 119% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Casella Waste Systems presently has a consensus target price of $101.20, indicating a potential upside of 2.69%. Atkore has a consensus target price of $187.00, indicating a potential upside of 23.20%. Given Atkore's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Atkore is more favorable than Casella Waste Systems.
In the previous week, Atkore had 4 more articles in the media than Casella Waste Systems. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Atkore and 6 mentions for Casella Waste Systems. Atkore's average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat Casella Waste Systems' score of 0.67 indicating that Atkore is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Casella Waste Systems received 23 more outperform votes than Atkore when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.79% of users gave Atkore an outperform vote while only 64.09% of users gave Casella Waste Systems an outperform vote.
Summary
Atkore beats Casella Waste Systems on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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