GFL vs. WCN, SES, TEV, AXR, BQE, YES, VTX, 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), CHAR Technologies (YES), Vertex Resource Group (VTX), Cielo Waste Solutions (CMC), BluMetric Environmental (BLM), and Clearford Water Systems (CLI). These companies are all part of the "waste management" industry.
Waste Connections (TSE:WCN) and GFL Environmental (TSE:GFL) are both large-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, community ranking and earnings.
In the previous week, GFL Environmental had 1 more articles in the media than Waste Connections. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for GFL Environmental and 0 mentions for Waste Connections. Waste Connections' average media sentiment score of 0.10 beat GFL Environmental's score of 0.00 indicating that GFL Environmental is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Waste Connections has higher revenue and earnings than GFL Environmental.
Waste Connections has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GFL Environmental has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Waste Connections has a net margin of 9.70% compared to Waste Connections' net margin of 1.22%. GFL Environmental's return on equity of 10.57% beat Waste Connections' return on equity.
Waste Connections currently has a consensus price target of C$193.10, suggesting a potential downside of 15.23%. Given GFL Environmental's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Waste Connections is more favorable than GFL Environmental.
Waste Connections pays an annual dividend of C$1.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. GFL Environmental pays an annual dividend of C$0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Waste Connections pays out 38.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
88.9% of Waste Connections shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.3% of GFL Environmental shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Waste Connections shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of GFL Environmental shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock 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.
Summary
Waste Connections beats GFL Environmental on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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