STN vs. TCOM, GIB, IQV, CPAY, AER, TOST, RDDT, GRAB, RBA, and GFL
Should you be buying Stantec stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Stantec include Trip.com Group (TCOM), CGI (GIB), IQVIA (IQV), Corpay (CPAY), AerCap (AER), Toast (TOST), Reddit (RDDT), Grab (GRAB), RB Global (RBA), and GFL Environmental (GFL). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
Stantec vs. Its Competitors
Trip.com Group (NASDAQ:TCOM) and Stantec (NYSE:STN) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.
Trip.com Group has higher revenue and earnings than Stantec. Trip.com Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Stantec, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Trip.com Group has a beta of 0.09, meaning that its stock price is 91% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Stantec has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Stantec received 302 more outperform votes than Trip.com Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.27% of users gave Stantec an outperform vote while only 57.61% of users gave Trip.com Group an outperform vote.
Trip.com Group currently has a consensus target price of $77.25, suggesting a potential upside of 26.34%. Given Trip.com Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Trip.com Group is more favorable than Stantec.
In the previous week, Trip.com Group had 3 more articles in the media than Stantec. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Trip.com Group and 4 mentions for Stantec. Trip.com Group's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Stantec's score of 0.65 indicating that Trip.com Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Trip.com Group pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Stantec pays an annual dividend of $0.65 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Trip.com Group pays out 8.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Stantec pays out 26.9% 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. Stantec has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years. Stantec is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
35.4% of Trip.com Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.9% of Stantec shares are held by institutional investors. 23.0% of Trip.com Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Stantec shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Trip.com Group has a net margin of 31.86% compared to Stantec's net margin of 4.78%. Stantec's return on equity of 16.57% beat Trip.com Group's return on equity.
Summary
Trip.com Group beats Stantec on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NYSE:STN) was last updated on 6/11/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
