CNM vs. CLH, DOCU, IPG, WPP, PCOR, ESTC, GFL, AFRM, APG, and WEX
Should you be buying Core & Main stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Core & Main include Clean Harbors (CLH), DocuSign (DOCU), Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), WPP (WPP), Procore Technologies (PCOR), Elastic (ESTC), GFL Environmental (GFL), Affirm (AFRM), APi Group (APG), and WEX (WEX). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Clean Harbors (NYSE:CLH) and Core & Main (NYSE:CNM) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking and dividends.
90.4% of Clean Harbors shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.2% of Core & Main shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.7% of Clean Harbors shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.5% of Core & Main shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Clean Harbors currently has a consensus target price of $207.90, suggesting a potential upside of 7.73%. Core & Main has a consensus target price of $50.08, suggesting a potential downside of 11.25%. Given Core & Main's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Clean Harbors is more favorable than Core & Main.
Clean Harbors received 520 more outperform votes than Core & Main when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.23% of users gave Clean Harbors an outperform vote while only 39.36% of users gave Core & Main an outperform vote.
Clean Harbors has a net margin of 6.99% compared to Clean Harbors' net margin of 5.54%. Clean Harbors' return on equity of 18.22% beat Core & Main's return on equity.
Clean Harbors has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Core & Main has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Core & Main had 6 more articles in the media than Clean Harbors. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Core & Main and 11 mentions for Clean Harbors. Core & Main's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Clean Harbors' score of 0.62 indicating that Clean Harbors is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Clean Harbors has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Core & Main. Core & Main is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Clean Harbors, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Clean Harbors beats Core & Main on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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