GFL vs. MORN, GRAB, GEN, DOCU, RBA, IPG, TRU, CNM, PATH, and RTO
Should you be buying GFL Environmental stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GFL Environmental include Morningstar (MORN), Grab (GRAB), Gen Digital (GEN), DocuSign (DOCU), RB Global (RBA), Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), TransUnion (TRU), Core & Main (CNM), UiPath (PATH), and Rentokil Initial (RTO). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
GFL Environmental (NYSE:GFL) and Morningstar (NASDAQ:MORN) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, profitability, valuation and dividends.
Morningstar received 185 more outperform votes than GFL Environmental when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.61% of users gave GFL Environmental an outperform vote while only 57.46% of users gave Morningstar an outperform vote.
64.7% of GFL Environmental shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.0% of Morningstar shares are held by institutional investors. 8.7% of GFL Environmental shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 37.7% of Morningstar shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
GFL Environmental has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Morningstar has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Morningstar has a net margin of 6.92% compared to GFL Environmental's net margin of 0.64%. Morningstar's return on equity of 18.54% beat GFL Environmental's return on equity.
In the previous week, Morningstar had 12 more articles in the media than GFL Environmental. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Morningstar and 4 mentions for GFL Environmental. Morningstar's average media sentiment score of 0.23 beat GFL Environmental's score of -0.02 indicating that Morningstar is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
GFL Environmental presently has a consensus target price of $42.83, suggesting a potential upside of 29.76%. Morningstar has a consensus target price of $320.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.45%. Given GFL Environmental's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe GFL Environmental is more favorable than Morningstar.
GFL Environmental pays an annual dividend of $0.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Morningstar pays an annual dividend of $1.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. GFL Environmental pays out -60.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Morningstar pays out 49.4% 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.
Morningstar has lower revenue, but higher earnings than GFL Environmental. GFL Environmental is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Morningstar, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Morningstar beats GFL Environmental on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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