GFL vs. WCN, TFII, RBA, STN, TIH, CAE, EFN, AC, FTT, and BBD.B
Should you be buying GFL Environmental stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GFL Environmental include Waste Connections (WCN), TFI International (TFII), RB Global (RBA), Stantec (STN), Toromont Industries (TIH), CAE (CAE), Element Fleet Management (EFN), Air Canada (AC), Finning International (FTT), and Bombardier, Inc. Class B (BBD.B). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
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 risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
Waste Connections has a net margin of 9.51% compared to GFL Environmental's net margin of 0.60%. Waste Connections' return on equity of 10.30% beat GFL Environmental's return on equity.
79.3% of GFL Environmental shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.7% of Waste Connections shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.2% of GFL Environmental shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% 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 stock is poised for long-term growth.
Waste Connections has a consensus target price of C$192.10, indicating a potential downside of 17.51%. Given Waste Connections' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Waste Connections is more favorable than GFL Environmental.
GFL Environmental pays an annual dividend of C$0.07 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Waste Connections pays an annual dividend of C$1.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. GFL Environmental pays out -53.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Waste Connections pays out 38.9% 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.
In the previous week, GFL Environmental had 2 more articles in the media than Waste Connections. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for GFL Environmental and 3 mentions for Waste Connections. GFL Environmental's average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Waste Connections' score of -0.46 indicating that GFL Environmental is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
GFL Environmental has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Waste Connections has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Waste Connections received 242 more outperform votes than GFL Environmental when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave GFL Environmental an outperform vote while only 69.46% of users gave Waste Connections an outperform vote.
Summary
Waste Connections beats GFL Environmental on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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