CWST vs. AIMC, MLI, FLS, FELE, MSM, ZWS, BDC, UNF, YOU, and ESAB
Should you be buying Casella Waste Systems stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Casella Waste Systems include Altra Industrial Motion (AIMC), Mueller Industries (MLI), Flowserve (FLS), Franklin Electric (FELE), MSC Industrial Direct (MSM), Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (ZWS), Belden (BDC), UniFirst (UNF), Clear Secure (YOU), and ESAB (ESAB). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Casella Waste Systems vs.
Casella Waste Systems (NASDAQ:CWST) and Altra Industrial Motion (NASDAQ:AIMC) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, earnings and risk.
Altra Industrial Motion received 88 more outperform votes than Casella Waste Systems when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.71% of users gave Casella Waste Systems an outperform vote while only 61.96% of users gave Altra Industrial Motion an outperform vote.
Casella Waste Systems currently has a consensus target price of $90.25, indicating a potential upside of 12.83%. Altra Industrial Motion has a consensus target price of $62.00, indicating a potential upside of 0.03%. Given Casella Waste Systems' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Casella Waste Systems is more favorable than Altra Industrial Motion.
Casella Waste Systems has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Altra Industrial Motion has a beta of 2.14, suggesting that its stock price is 114% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Altra Industrial Motion had 7 more articles in the media than Casella Waste Systems. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Altra Industrial Motion and 3 mentions for Casella Waste Systems. Altra Industrial Motion's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Casella Waste Systems' score of -0.36 indicating that Altra Industrial Motion is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
96.8% of Casella Waste Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.5% of Altra Industrial Motion shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.1% of Casella Waste Systems shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Altra Industrial Motion shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Altra Industrial Motion has a net margin of 6.53% compared to Casella Waste Systems' net margin of 4.89%. Casella Waste Systems' return on equity of 12.13% beat Altra Industrial Motion's return on equity.
Altra Industrial Motion has higher revenue and earnings than Casella Waste Systems. Altra Industrial Motion 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.
Summary
Casella Waste Systems beats Altra Industrial Motion on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding CWST and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Casella Waste Systems Competitors List
