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GFL Environmental (GFL) Competitors

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C$63.53 -0.73 (-1.14%)
As of 10/7/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

GFL vs. WCN, CCO, RBA, GIB.A, STN, QBR.B, QBR.A, MEG, SJ, and NVEI

Should you be buying GFL Environmental stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GFL Environmental include Waste Connections (WCN), Cameco (CCO), RB Global (RBA), CGI (GIB.A), Stantec (STN), Quebecor (QBR.B), Quebecor (QBR.A), MEG Energy (MEG), Stella-Jones (SJ), and Nuvei (NVEI). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.

GFL Environmental vs. Its Competitors

GFL Environmental (TSE:GFL) and Waste Connections (TSE:WCN) are both large-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, earnings, dividends and media sentiment.

45.9% of GFL Environmental shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.6% of Waste Connections shares are held by institutional investors. 3.0% of GFL Environmental shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Waste Connections shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Waste Connections has a consensus price target of C$265.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.49%. Given Waste Connections' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Waste Connections is more favorable than GFL Environmental.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
GFL Environmental
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
5 Strong Buy rating(s)
4.00
Waste Connections
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
5 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.43

In the previous week, GFL Environmental and GFL Environmental both had 1 articles in the media. Waste Connections' average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat GFL Environmental's score of 0.50 indicating that Waste Connections is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
GFL Environmental Positive
Waste Connections Positive

GFL Environmental has a beta of 0.135494, suggesting that its share price is 86% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Waste Connections has a beta of 0.388195, suggesting that its share price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500.

GFL Environmental pays an annual dividend of C$0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Waste Connections pays an annual dividend of C$1.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. GFL Environmental pays out 0.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Waste Connections pays out 49.6% 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 Connections has a net margin of 10.81% compared to GFL Environmental's net margin of -7.55%. Waste Connections' return on equity of 11.86% beat GFL Environmental's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
GFL Environmental-7.55% -8.41% 1.22%
Waste Connections 10.81%11.86%5.00%

Waste Connections has higher revenue and earnings than GFL Environmental. GFL Environmental is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Waste Connections, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
GFL EnvironmentalC$8.08B2.86-C$594.65MC$9.176.93
Waste ConnectionsC$9.23B6.74C$662.45MC$2.4897.59

Summary

Waste Connections beats GFL Environmental on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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GFL vs. The Competition

MetricGFL EnvironmentalWaste Management IndustryIndustrials SectorTSE Exchange
Market CapC$23.08BC$6.59BC$7.90BC$9.68B
Dividend Yield0.13%1.74%4.57%6.47%
P/E Ratio6.939.07304.2526.85
Price / Sales2.869.421,289.1010.77
Price / Cash55.1140.6528.5083.29
Price / Book3.456.504.955.77
Net Income-C$594.65MC$60.69MC$791.48MC$301.20M
7 Day Performance-2.31%0.90%1.22%1.82%
1 Month Performance-2.56%11.25%4.89%7.49%
1 Year Performance14.45%56.99%30.55%55.06%

GFL Environmental Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
GFL
GFL Environmental
N/AC$63.53
-1.1%
N/A+16.7%C$23.08BC$8.08B6.9319,500Dividend Announcement
WCN
Waste Connections
2.6301 of 5 stars
C$244.35
+0.7%
C$265.00
+8.5%
+0.6%C$62.83BC$9.23B98.5322,100
CCO
Cameco
1.2498 of 5 stars
C$115.70
-1.6%
C$113.46
-1.9%
+72.3%C$50.37BC$3.57B94.844,700News Coverage
Analyst Revision
Gap Up
RBA
RB Global
N/AC$149.27
-0.2%
N/A+34.8%C$27.70BC$4.42B73.534,200
GIB.A
CGI
2.6613 of 5 stars
C$123.75
flat
C$179.40
+45.0%
-18.2%C$27.59BC$15.56B16.3990,000
STN
Stantec
1.7737 of 5 stars
C$148.44
+0.9%
C$155.50
+4.8%
+37.8%C$16.93BC$7.78B38.8631,000News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
QBR.B
Quebecor
0.8121 of 5 stars
C$43.37
+0.3%
C$42.59
-1.8%
+24.6%C$9.95BC$5.61B12.9910,039
QBR.A
Quebecor
0.9047 of 5 stars
C$42.72
flat
C$43.25
+1.2%
+25.4%C$9.80BC$5.61B12.7910,000
MEG
MEG Energy
2.3159 of 5 stars
C$28.07
-0.6%
C$30.86
+9.9%
+0.5%C$7.14BC$4.81B13.43449
SJ
Stella-Jones
2.4421 of 5 stars
C$77.37
+1.4%
C$84.50
+9.2%
-13.8%C$4.27BC$3.45B13.03280
NVEI
Nuvei
N/AN/AN/AN/AC$3.13BC$1.31B-432.821,370

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