WM vs. RSG, WCN, FI, TRI, TT, ADP, ARM, MRVL, SPOT, and NU
Should you be buying Waste Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Waste Management include Republic Services (RSG), Waste Connections (WCN), Fiserv (FI), Thomson Reuters (TRI), Trane Technologies (TT), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), ARM (ARM), Marvell Technology (MRVL), Spotify Technology (SPOT), and NU (NU). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Waste Management (NYSE:WM) and Republic Services (NYSE:RSG) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
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 beta of 0.72, meaning that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Republic Services has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Waste Management pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Republic Services pays an annual dividend of $2.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Waste Management pays out 49.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Republic Services pays out 37.5% 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, Waste Management had 15 more articles in the media than Republic Services. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Waste Management and 10 mentions for Republic Services. Republic Services' average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat Waste Management's score of 0.30 indicating that Republic Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
80.4% of Waste Management shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.7% of Republic Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Waste Management shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Republic Services shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Waste Management currently has a consensus price target of $216.24, indicating a potential upside of 2.75%. Republic Services has a consensus price target of $201.00, indicating a potential upside of 6.82%. Given Republic Services' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Republic Services is more favorable than Waste Management.
Waste Management has a net margin of 11.98% compared to Republic Services' net margin of 11.81%. Waste Management's return on equity of 38.61% beat Republic Services' return on equity.
Waste Management received 97 more outperform votes than Republic Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.86% of users gave Waste Management an outperform vote while only 64.95% of users gave Republic Services an outperform vote.
Summary
Waste Management beats Republic Services on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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