WM vs. RSG, ROL, CLH, TTEK, CWST, SRCL, ABM, SP, TISI, and WCN
Should you be buying Waste Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Waste Management include Republic Services (RSG), Rollins (ROL), Clean Harbors (CLH), Tetra Tech (TTEK), Casella Waste Systems (CWST), Stericycle (SRCL), ABM Industries (ABM), SP Plus (SP), Team (TISI), and Waste Connections (WCN).
Republic Services (NYSE:RSG) and Waste Management (NYSE:WM) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Republic Services currently has a consensus target price of $201.14, suggesting a potential upside of 8.61%. Waste Management has a consensus target price of $217.61, suggesting a potential upside of 3.27%. Given Waste Management's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Republic Services is more favorable than Waste Management.
Waste Management has higher revenue and earnings than Republic Services. Republic Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Waste Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Waste Management has a net margin of 11.98% compared to Waste Management's net margin of 11.81%. Republic Services' return on equity of 38.61% beat Waste Management's return on equity.
Republic Services has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Waste Management has a beta of 0.72, suggesting that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Republic Services pays an annual dividend of $2.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Waste Management pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Republic Services pays out 37.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Waste Management pays out 49.1% 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. Republic Services has increased its dividend for 21 consecutive years and Waste Management has increased its dividend for 21 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Waste Management had 4 more articles in the media than Republic Services. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Waste Management and 6 mentions for Republic Services. Waste Management's average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat Republic Services' score of 0.62 indicating that Republic Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
57.7% of Republic Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.4% of Waste Management shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Republic Services shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Waste Management shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Waste Management received 98 more outperform votes than Republic Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.90% of users gave Waste Management an outperform vote while only 64.86% of users gave Republic Services an outperform vote.
Summary
Waste Management beats Republic Services on 17 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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