GFL vs. PYPL, WCN, TCOM, IQV, RDDT, GIB, CPAY, TOST, AER, and RBA
Should you be buying GFL Environmental stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GFL Environmental include PayPal (PYPL), Waste Connections (WCN), Trip.com Group (TCOM), IQVIA (IQV), Reddit (RDDT), CGI Group (GIB), Corpay (CPAY), Toast (TOST), Aercap (AER), and RB Global (RBA). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
GFL Environmental vs. Its Competitors
GFL Environmental (NYSE:GFL) and PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
GFL Environmental has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PayPal has a beta of 1.45, suggesting that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, PayPal had 27 more articles in the media than GFL Environmental. MarketBeat recorded 43 mentions for PayPal and 16 mentions for GFL Environmental. PayPal's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat GFL Environmental's score of 0.80 indicating that PayPal is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
GFL Environmental presently has a consensus target price of $54.50, suggesting a potential upside of 13.00%. PayPal has a consensus target price of $83.42, suggesting a potential upside of 9.17%. Given GFL Environmental's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe GFL Environmental is more favorable than PayPal.
64.7% of GFL Environmental shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.3% of PayPal shares are held by institutional investors. 8.7% of GFL Environmental shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of PayPal shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
GFL Environmental has a net margin of 36.01% compared to PayPal's net margin of 14.26%. PayPal's return on equity of 24.59% beat GFL Environmental's return on equity.
PayPal has higher revenue and earnings than GFL Environmental. GFL Environmental is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PayPal, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
PayPal beats GFL Environmental on 10 of the 17 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 NYSE 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 (NYSE:GFL) was last updated on 7/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
