GFL vs. WCN, SES, TEV, AXR, BQE, VTX, YES, CMC, BLM, and CLI
Should you be buying GFL Environmental stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GFL Environmental include Waste Connections (WCN), Secure Energy Services (SES), Tervita (TEV), Alexco Resource (AXR), BQE Water (BQE), Vertex Resource Group (VTX), CHAR Technologies (YES), Cielo Waste Solutions (CMC), BluMetric Environmental (BLM), and Clearford Water Systems (CLI). These companies are all part of the "waste management" industry.
GFL Environmental (TSE:GFL) and Waste Connections (TSE:WCN) are both large-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
Waste Connections has higher revenue and earnings than GFL Environmental.
Waste Connections has a net margin of 9.70% compared to GFL Environmental's net margin of 1.22%. Waste Connections' return on equity of 10.57% beat GFL Environmental's return on equity.
GFL Environmental pays an annual dividend of C$0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Waste Connections pays an annual dividend of C$1.57 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Waste Connections pays out 37.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
82.3% of GFL Environmental shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.1% of Waste Connections shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of GFL Environmental shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Waste Connections shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Waste Connections received 242 more outperform votes than GFL Environmental when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave GFL Environmental an outperform vote while only 69.27% of users gave Waste Connections an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Waste Connections had 4 more articles in the media than GFL Environmental. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Waste Connections and 0 mentions for GFL Environmental. GFL Environmental's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Waste Connections' score of -0.05 indicating that GFL Environmental is being referred to more favorably in the media.
GFL Environmental has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Waste Connections has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Waste Connections has a consensus price target of C$193.10, suggesting a potential downside of 13.10%. Given Waste Connections' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Waste Connections is more favorable than GFL Environmental.
Summary
Waste Connections beats GFL Environmental on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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