GFL vs. WCN, TCOM, IQV, RDDT, TOST, CPAY, GIB, GRAB, AER, and RBA
Should you be buying GFL Environmental stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GFL Environmental include Waste Connections (WCN), Trip.com Group (TCOM), IQVIA (IQV), Reddit (RDDT), Toast (TOST), Corpay (CPAY), CGI Group (GIB), Grab (GRAB), Aercap (AER), and RB Global (RBA). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
GFL Environmental vs. Its Competitors
Waste Connections (NYSE:WCN) and GFL Environmental (NYSE:GFL) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings and dividends.
Waste Connections presently has a consensus target price of $214.50, indicating a potential upside of 14.71%. GFL Environmental has a consensus target price of $56.29, indicating a potential upside of 16.75%. Given GFL Environmental's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe GFL Environmental is more favorable than Waste Connections.
Waste Connections has a beta of 0.6, meaning that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GFL Environmental has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Waste Connections has higher revenue and earnings than GFL Environmental. GFL Environmental is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Waste Connections, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
GFL Environmental has a net margin of 36.01% compared to Waste Connections' net margin of 6.97%. Waste Connections' return on equity of 15.72% beat GFL Environmental's return on equity.
In the previous week, Waste Connections had 23 more articles in the media than GFL Environmental. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Waste Connections and 6 mentions for GFL Environmental. GFL Environmental's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Waste Connections' score of 0.07 indicating that GFL Environmental is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Waste Connections pays an annual dividend of $1.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. GFL Environmental pays an annual dividend of $0.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Waste Connections pays out 50.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. GFL Environmental pays out 1.2% 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 and GFL Environmental has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years. Waste Connections is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
86.1% of Waste Connections shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.7% of GFL Environmental shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Waste Connections shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.7% of GFL Environmental shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Waste Connections beats GFL Environmental on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:GFL) was last updated on 7/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
