WCN vs. UBER, RELX, MELI, PYPL, IQV, ICLR, GIB, KSPI, CPAY, and AER
Should you be buying Waste Connections stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Waste Connections include Uber Technologies (UBER), Relx (RELX), MercadoLibre (MELI), PayPal (PYPL), IQVIA (IQV), ICON Public (ICLR), CGI (GIB), Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz (KSPI), Corpay (CPAY), and AerCap (AER). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
Waste Connections (NYSE:WCN) and Uber Technologies (NYSE:UBER) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends and risk.
Waste Connections has a beta of 0.72, suggesting that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Uber Technologies has a beta of 1.36, suggesting that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Uber Technologies had 12 more articles in the media than Waste Connections. MarketBeat recorded 41 mentions for Uber Technologies and 29 mentions for Waste Connections. Uber Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Waste Connections' score of 0.10 indicating that Uber Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Waste Connections currently has a consensus target price of $186.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.84%. Uber Technologies has a consensus target price of $85.97, indicating a potential upside of 33.49%. Given Uber Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Uber Technologies is more favorable than Waste Connections.
Uber Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Waste Connections. Waste Connections is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Uber Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Waste Connections received 345 more outperform votes than Uber Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.24% of users gave Waste Connections an outperform vote while only 73.88% of users gave Uber Technologies an outperform vote.
Waste Connections has a net margin of 10.23% compared to Uber Technologies' net margin of 3.60%. Waste Connections' return on equity of 15.30% beat Uber Technologies' return on equity.
86.1% of Waste Connections shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.2% of Uber Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Waste Connections shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of Uber Technologies shares are owned by company 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.
Summary
Uber Technologies beats Waste Connections on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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