GFL vs. PYPL, WCN, TCOM, GIB, IQV, CPAY, AER, TOST, RDDT, and GRAB
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), CGI (GIB), IQVIA (IQV), Corpay (CPAY), AerCap (AER), Toast (TOST), Reddit (RDDT), and Grab (GRAB). 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 superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, risk and dividends.
GFL Environmental has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PayPal has a beta of 1.45, suggesting that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, PayPal had 48 more articles in the media than GFL Environmental. MarketBeat recorded 56 mentions for PayPal and 8 mentions for GFL Environmental. PayPal's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat GFL Environmental's score of 0.71 indicating that PayPal is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PayPal has a net margin of 13.04% compared to GFL Environmental's net margin of -7.54%. PayPal's return on equity of 23.67% beat GFL Environmental's return on equity.
PayPal received 1721 more outperform votes than GFL Environmental when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.13% of users gave PayPal an outperform vote while only 71.84% of users gave GFL Environmental an outperform vote.
64.7% of GFL Environmental shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.3% of PayPal shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.7% of GFL Environmental shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of PayPal shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
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.
GFL Environmental currently has a consensus price target of $54.50, suggesting a potential upside of 8.52%. PayPal has a consensus price target of $83.29, suggesting a potential upside of 17.59%. Given PayPal's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe PayPal is more favorable than GFL Environmental.
Summary
PayPal beats GFL Environmental on 14 of the 19 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 6/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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