WM vs. RSG, WCN, FISV, TRI, MRVL, ADP, CPRT, PAYX, SQ, and TT
Should you be buying Waste Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Waste Management include Republic Services (RSG), Waste Connections (WCN), Fiserv (FISV), Thomson Reuters (TRI), Marvell Technology (MRVL), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Copart (CPRT), Paychex (PAYX), Block (SQ), and Trane Technologies (TT). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Waste Management vs.
Waste Management (NYSE:WM) and Republic Services (NYSE:RSG) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.
Waste Management has a net margin of 11.33% compared to Republic Services' net margin of 10.76%. Waste Management's return on equity of 33.23% beat Republic Services' return on equity.
Waste Management currently has a consensus price target of $176.64, suggesting a potential upside of 8.58%. Republic Services has a consensus price target of $146.80, suggesting a potential upside of 2.45%. Given Waste Management's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Waste Management is more favorable than Republic Services.
In the previous week, Republic Services had 4 more articles in the media than Waste Management. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Republic Services and 3 mentions for Waste Management. Republic Services' average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Waste Management's score of -0.56 indicating that Republic Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Waste Management received 94 more outperform votes than Republic Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.40% of users gave Waste Management an outperform vote while only 65.04% of users gave Republic Services an outperform vote.
Waste Management pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Republic Services pays an annual dividend of $1.98 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Waste Management pays out 51.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Republic Services pays out 41.3% 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.
Waste Management has a beta of 0.73, suggesting that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Republic Services has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Waste Management has higher revenue and earnings than Republic Services. Waste Management is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Republic Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
78.5% of Waste Management shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.1% of Republic Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Waste Management shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Republic Services shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Waste Management beats Republic Services on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding WM and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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