CWST vs. ADSW, CLH, TTEK, SRCL, ABM, SP, TISI, WCN, WM, and RSG
Should you be buying Casella Waste Systems stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Casella Waste Systems include Advanced Disposal Services (ADSW), Clean Harbors (CLH), Tetra Tech (TTEK), Stericycle (SRCL), ABM Industries (ABM), SP Plus (SP), Team (TISI), Waste Connections (WCN), Waste Management (WM), and Republic Services (RSG).
Advanced Disposal Services (NYSE:ADSW) and Casella Waste Systems (NASDAQ:CWST) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, profitability and valuation.
Casella Waste Systems has a net margin of 1.32% compared to Casella Waste Systems' net margin of 0.02%. Casella Waste Systems' return on equity of 4.90% beat Advanced Disposal Services' return on equity.
Casella Waste Systems has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Advanced Disposal Services. Advanced Disposal Services 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.
99.5% of Casella Waste Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Advanced Disposal Services shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Casella Waste Systems shares are owned 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.
Advanced Disposal Services has a beta of 0.26, indicating that its share price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Casella Waste Systems has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Casella Waste Systems has a consensus price target of $102.00, suggesting a potential upside of 6.96%. Given Advanced Disposal Services' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Casella Waste Systems is more favorable than Advanced Disposal Services.
In the previous week, Casella Waste Systems had 6 more articles in the media than Advanced Disposal Services. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Casella Waste Systems and 0 mentions for Advanced Disposal Services. Advanced Disposal Services' average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Casella Waste Systems' score of 0.00 indicating that Casella Waste Systems is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Casella Waste Systems received 118 more outperform votes than Advanced Disposal Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.46% of users gave Advanced Disposal Services an outperform vote while only 63.98% of users gave Casella Waste Systems an outperform vote.
Summary
Casella Waste Systems beats Advanced Disposal Services on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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