GFL vs. WCN, CWST, QRHC, VIVK, AWX, ESGL, WM, RSG, NU, and PLTR
Should you be buying GFL Environmental stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GFL Environmental include Waste Connections (WCN), Casella Waste Systems (CWST), Quest Resource (QRHC), Vivakor (VIVK), Avalon (AWX), ESGL (ESGL), Waste Management (WM), Republic Services (RSG), NU (NU), and Palantir Technologies (PLTR).
Waste Connections (NYSE:WCN) and GFL Environmental (NYSE:GFL) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Waste Connections has a net margin of 9.70% compared to Waste Connections' net margin of 1.25%. GFL Environmental's return on equity of 14.66% beat Waste Connections' return on equity.
Waste Connections received 750 more outperform votes than GFL Environmental when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.16% of users gave Waste Connections an outperform vote while only 67.83% of users gave GFL Environmental an outperform vote.
Waste Connections has higher revenue and earnings than GFL Environmental.
86.1% of Waste Connections shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.7% of GFL Environmental shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Waste Connections shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.7% of GFL Environmental shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, GFL Environmental had 5 more articles in the media than Waste Connections. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for GFL Environmental and 8 mentions for Waste Connections. GFL Environmental's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat Waste Connections' score of 0.67 indicating that Waste Connections is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Waste Connections has a beta of 0.7, indicating that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GFL Environmental has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Waste Connections pays an annual dividend of $1.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. GFL Environmental pays an annual dividend of $0.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Waste Connections pays out 37.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Waste Connections has raised its dividend for 7 consecutive years and GFL Environmental has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Waste Connections is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Waste Connections presently has a consensus price target of $179.94, indicating a potential upside of 8.70%. GFL Environmental has a consensus price target of $43.08, indicating a potential upside of 18.30%. Given Waste Connections' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe GFL Environmental is more favorable than Waste Connections.
Summary
Waste Connections beats GFL Environmental on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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