CWST vs. MSM, ZWS, SON, SLGN, SEE, ADT, GTLS, FELE, WIRE, and FLS
Should you be buying Casella Waste Systems stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Casella Waste Systems include MSC Industrial Direct (MSM), Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (ZWS), Sonoco Products (SON), Silgan (SLGN), Sealed Air (SEE), ADT (ADT), Chart Industries (GTLS), Franklin Electric (FELE), Encore Wire (WIRE), and Flowserve (FLS). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
MSC Industrial Direct (NYSE:MSM) and Casella Waste Systems (NASDAQ:CWST) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings and dividends.
MSC Industrial Direct has a beta of 0.95, indicating that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Casella Waste Systems has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
MSC Industrial Direct has a net margin of 7.89% compared to MSC Industrial Direct's net margin of 1.32%. Casella Waste Systems' return on equity of 22.58% beat MSC Industrial Direct's return on equity.
79.3% of MSC Industrial Direct shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.5% of Casella Waste Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.8% of MSC Industrial Direct shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.8% of Casella Waste Systems shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
MSC Industrial Direct has higher revenue and earnings than Casella Waste Systems. MSC Industrial Direct 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.
MSC Industrial Direct received 23 more outperform votes than Casella Waste Systems when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.09% of users gave Casella Waste Systems an outperform vote while only 53.23% of users gave MSC Industrial Direct an outperform vote.
MSC Industrial Direct presently has a consensus target price of $107.00, suggesting a potential upside of 17.63%. Casella Waste Systems has a consensus target price of $101.50, suggesting a potential upside of 12.55%. Given Casella Waste Systems' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe MSC Industrial Direct is more favorable than Casella Waste Systems.
In the previous week, Casella Waste Systems had 12 more articles in the media than MSC Industrial Direct. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Casella Waste Systems and 2 mentions for MSC Industrial Direct. Casella Waste Systems' average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat MSC Industrial Direct's score of -0.14 indicating that MSC Industrial Direct is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
MSC Industrial Direct beats Casella Waste Systems on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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