FTAI vs. WCN, RDDT, TCOM, IQV, TOST, RBA, CPAY, GIB, AER, and GRAB
Should you be buying FTAI Aviation stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FTAI Aviation include Waste Connections (WCN), Reddit (RDDT), Trip.com Group (TCOM), IQVIA (IQV), Toast (TOST), RB Global (RBA), Corpay (CPAY), CGI Group (GIB), Aercap (AER), and Grab (GRAB). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
FTAI Aviation vs. Its Competitors
FTAI Aviation (NASDAQ:FTAI) and Waste Connections (NYSE:WCN) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.
FTAI Aviation has a beta of 1.61, indicating that its share price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Waste Connections has a beta of 0.58, indicating that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Waste Connections had 2 more articles in the media than FTAI Aviation. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Waste Connections and 22 mentions for FTAI Aviation. FTAI Aviation's average media sentiment score of 1.35 beat Waste Connections' score of 0.50 indicating that FTAI Aviation is being referred to more favorably in the media.
FTAI Aviation currently has a consensus target price of $179.50, indicating a potential upside of 21.12%. Waste Connections has a consensus target price of $215.00, indicating a potential upside of 16.52%. Given FTAI Aviation's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe FTAI Aviation is more favorable than Waste Connections.
FTAI Aviation pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Waste Connections pays an annual dividend of $1.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. FTAI Aviation pays out 29.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Waste Connections pays out 50.8% 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 Connections has raised its dividend for 8 consecutive years. FTAI Aviation is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Waste Connections has higher revenue and earnings than FTAI Aviation. FTAI Aviation is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Waste Connections, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
89.0% of FTAI Aviation shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.1% of Waste Connections shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of FTAI Aviation shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Waste Connections shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
FTAI Aviation has a net margin of 21.31% compared to Waste Connections' net margin of 6.97%. FTAI Aviation's return on equity of 465.13% beat Waste Connections' return on equity.
Summary
FTAI Aviation beats Waste Connections on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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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.
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This page (NASDAQ:FTAI) was last updated on 8/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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