CWST vs. ROLL, HI, KFY, CR, HTZ, ESGLW, LNZAW, BLDP, YELL, and DSKE
Should you be buying Casella Waste Systems stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Casella Waste Systems include RBC Bearings (ROLL), Hillenbrand (HI), Korn Ferry (KFY), Crane (CR), Hertz Global (HTZ), ESGL (ESGLW), LanzaTech Global (LNZAW), Ballard Power Systems (BLDP), Yellow (YELL), and Daseke (DSKE).
RBC Bearings (NASDAQ:ROLL) and Casella Waste Systems (NASDAQ:CWST) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.
RBC Bearings has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Casella Waste Systems. RBC Bearings 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. 2.8% of RBC Bearings 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 company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Casella Waste Systems had 4 more articles in the media than RBC Bearings. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Casella Waste Systems and 2 mentions for RBC Bearings. Casella Waste Systems' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat RBC Bearings' score of -0.16 indicating that RBC Bearings is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Casella Waste Systems received 373 more outperform votes than RBC Bearings when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.09% of users gave Casella Waste Systems an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave RBC Bearings an outperform vote.
Casella Waste Systems has a net margin of 2.01% compared to Casella Waste Systems' net margin of 0.00%. RBC Bearings' return on equity of 5.81% beat Casella Waste Systems' return on equity.
Casella Waste Systems has a consensus price target of $99.71, suggesting a potential upside of 5.72%. Given RBC Bearings' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Casella Waste Systems is more favorable than RBC Bearings.
RBC Bearings has a beta of 1.34, indicating that its share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Casella Waste Systems has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Casella Waste Systems beats RBC Bearings on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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