WCN vs. GFL, WSP, TRI, RBA, TFII, CP, CNR, SES, STN, and TIH
Should you be buying Waste Connections stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Waste Connections include GFL Environmental (GFL), WSP Global (WSP), Thomson Reuters (TRI), RB Global (RBA), TFI International (TFII), Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CP), Canadian National Railway (CNR), Secure Energy Services (SES), Stantec (STN), and Toromont Industries (TIH). 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 superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
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.
79.3% of GFL Environmental shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.6% 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 hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Waste Connections has a consensus target price of C$192.10, indicating a potential downside of 14.87%. Given GFL Environmental's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Waste Connections is more favorable than GFL Environmental.
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 pays an annual dividend of C$0.07 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. 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 38.2% 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 9.51% compared to Waste Connections' net margin of 0.60%. GFL Environmental's return on equity of 10.30% beat Waste Connections' return on equity.
GFL Environmental has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Waste Connections has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Waste Connections had 5 more articles in the media than GFL Environmental. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Waste Connections and 6 mentions for GFL Environmental. Waste Connections' average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat GFL Environmental's score of 0.49 indicating that GFL Environmental is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Waste Connections beats GFL Environmental on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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