WCN vs. WM, RSG, GFL, CWST, QRHC, VIVK, AWX, ESGL, SPGI, and ARM
Should you be buying Waste Connections stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Waste Connections include Waste Management (WM), Republic Services (RSG), GFL Environmental (GFL), Casella Waste Systems (CWST), Quest Resource (QRHC), Vivakor (VIVK), Avalon (AWX), ESGL (ESGL), S&P Global (SPGI), and ARM (ARM).
Waste Connections (NYSE:WCN) and Waste Management (NYSE:WM) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, profitability, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Waste Management had 7 more articles in the media than Waste Connections. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Waste Management and 11 mentions for Waste Connections. Waste Connections' average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Waste Management's score of 0.41 indicating that Waste Connections is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Waste Connections pays an annual dividend of $1.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Waste Management pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Waste Connections pays out 37.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Waste Management pays out 49.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Waste Management has a net margin of 11.98% compared to Waste Connections' net margin of 9.70%. Waste Management's return on equity of 38.61% beat Waste Connections' return on equity.
Waste Connections presently has a consensus target price of $179.94, suggesting a potential upside of 10.33%. Waste Management has a consensus target price of $217.61, suggesting a potential upside of 5.41%. Given Waste Connections' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Waste Connections is more favorable than Waste Management.
Waste Connections has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Waste Management has a beta of 0.72, suggesting that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
86.1% of Waste Connections shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.4% of Waste Management shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Waste Connections shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Waste Management shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Waste Connections received 271 more outperform votes than Waste Management when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.16% of users gave Waste Connections an outperform vote while only 66.90% of users gave Waste Management an outperform vote.
Waste Management has higher revenue and earnings than Waste Connections. Waste Management is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Waste Connections, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Waste Connections beats Waste Management on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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