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GFL Environmental (GFL) Competitors

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C$65.31 -1.31 (-1.97%)
As of 09/12/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

GFL vs. WCN, CCO, RBA, GIB.A, STN, QBR.A, QBR.B, 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.A), Quebecor (QBR.B), 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 business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, risk and profitability.

In the previous week, Waste Connections had 4 more articles in the media than GFL Environmental. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Waste Connections and 0 mentions for GFL Environmental. GFL Environmental's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Waste Connections' score of -0.19 indicating that GFL Environmental is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
GFL Environmental Positive
Waste Connections Neutral

Waste Connections has a consensus target price of C$265.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.68%. Given Waste Connections' higher possible upside, analysts plainly 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)
4 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

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%

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.

GFL Environmental has a beta of 0.282242, meaning that its stock price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Waste Connections has a beta of 0.398821, meaning that its stock price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500.

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$8.08B2.94-C$594.65MC$9.177.12
Waste ConnectionsC$9.23B6.79C$662.45MC$2.4898.32

46.1% of GFL Environmental shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.6% of Waste Connections shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.0% of GFL Environmental shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Waste Connections shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Waste Connections beats GFL Environmental on 13 of the 18 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$23.73BC$6.62BC$7.81BC$9.39B
Dividend Yield0.13%1.79%4.56%6.51%
P/E Ratio7.128.76315.9925.78
Price / Sales2.949.37217.249.40
Price / Cash55.1140.6528.9183.29
Price / Book3.546.754.615.54
Net Income-C$594.65MC$60.69MC$798.53MC$301.20M
7 Day Performance-1.60%0.09%0.97%1.43%
1 Month Performance-5.99%2.99%0.86%7.76%
1 Year Performance20.10%31.95%26.73%36.82%

GFL Environmental Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
GFL
GFL Environmental
N/AC$65.31
-2.0%
N/A+19.4%C$23.73BC$8.08B7.1219,500
WCN
Waste Connections
1.9536 of 5 stars
C$245.64
-0.3%
C$265.00
+7.9%
-3.5%C$63.16BC$9.23B99.0522,100News Coverage
Insider Trade
CCO
Cameco
1.5596 of 5 stars
C$107.21
+0.5%
C$109.69
+2.3%
+95.4%C$46.68BC$3.57B87.884,700News Coverage
Analyst Upgrade
RBA
RB Global
N/AC$159.66
+0.0%
N/A+40.7%C$29.63BC$4.42B78.654,200News Coverage
GIB.A
CGI
2.3823 of 5 stars
C$132.80
-0.4%
C$179.40
+35.1%
-17.3%C$29.60BC$15.56B17.5990,000News Coverage
STN
Stantec
2.0653 of 5 stars
C$147.93
-0.4%
C$155.50
+5.1%
+44.3%C$16.87BC$7.78B38.7331,000
QBR.A
Quebecor
1.0595 of 5 stars
C$43.92
+0.7%
C$43.25
-1.5%
N/AC$10.08BC$5.61B13.1510,000News Coverage
QBR.B
Quebecor
1.4384 of 5 stars
C$43.35
-1.0%
C$42.22
-2.6%
+27.3%C$9.95BC$5.61B12.9810,039
MEG
MEG Energy
2.0834 of 5 stars
C$29.29
+0.9%
C$30.78
+5.1%
N/AC$7.45BC$4.81B14.01449Dividend Increase
SJ
Stella-Jones
1.6718 of 5 stars
C$79.78
-0.8%
C$84.50
+5.9%
-14.2%C$4.41BC$3.45B13.43280
NVEI
Nuvei
N/AN/AN/AN/AC$3.13BC$1.31B-432.821,370

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