RBA vs. WCN, IQV, ICLR, GIB, KSPI, CPAY, AER, RTO, GFL, and ALLE
Should you be buying RB Global stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RB Global include Waste Connections (WCN), IQVIA (IQV), ICON Public (ICLR), CGI (GIB), Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz (KSPI), Corpay (CPAY), AerCap (AER), Rentokil Initial (RTO), GFL Environmental (GFL), and Allegion (ALLE). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
Waste Connections (NYSE:WCN) and RB Global (NYSE:RBA) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings, dividends and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Waste Connections had 22 more articles in the media than RB Global. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Waste Connections and 7 mentions for RB Global. Waste Connections' average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat RB Global's score of 0.10 indicating that RB Global is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
86.1% of Waste Connections shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.4% of RB Global shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Waste Connections shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of RB Global shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Waste Connections has a net margin of 10.23% compared to Waste Connections' net margin of 8.08%. RB Global's return on equity of 15.30% beat Waste Connections' return on equity.
Waste Connections has a beta of 0.72, suggesting that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RB Global has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Waste Connections pays an annual dividend of $1.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. RB Global pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Waste Connections pays out 37.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. RB Global pays out 65.1% 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. RB Global has raised its dividend for 19 consecutive years. RB Global is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Waste Connections has higher revenue and earnings than RB Global. RB Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Waste Connections, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Waste Connections received 447 more outperform votes than RB Global when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.24% of users gave Waste Connections an outperform vote while only 49.27% of users gave RB Global an outperform vote.
Waste Connections currently has a consensus target price of $186.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.84%. RB Global has a consensus target price of $86.50, indicating a potential upside of 9.26%. Given Waste Connections' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe RB Global is more favorable than Waste Connections.
Summary
Waste Connections beats RB Global on 14 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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