GFL Environmental Inc. Subordinate voting shares no par value (GFL): valor razonable

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GFL Environmental runs solid waste collection, landfills, transfer stations and recycling across North America, with a growing environmental services arm that handles soil remediation and liquids processing. Its moat is physical: permitted landfill airspace and dense local collection routes are slow and expensive to replicate, which gives pricing power that is hard to see in a headline growth number. The near-term driver is acquisitions and the pricing and volume gains that come with them, with reported revenue growth of 16.3% running ahead of what the balance sheet currently earns. The reason to look now is the gap between a 6.9% operating margin and a 20.2% gross margin, which shows how much of the business is absorbed by costs below the gross line, and a forward P/E of 47.8 that prices in a lot of margin expansion. ROE of -2.3% means the equity is not yet earning its keep, so the question for a deeper look is whether operating leverage on the acquired asset base closes that gap before the multiple has to compress.