Stock · WM · Industrials
United States · Large Cap · listed since 1988 · Revenue 12 mo. $25.7B
Price as of 11/06/2026
Waste Management, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides environmental solutions to residential, commercial, industrial, and municipal customers in the United States, Canada, Western Europe, and internationally.
Waste Management, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides environmental solutions to residential, commercial, industrial, and municipal customers in the United States, Canada, Western Europe, and internationally. It offers collection services, including picking up and transporting waste and recyclable materials from where it was generated to a transfer station, recovery facility, or disposal site; owns and operates transfer stations; and owns, develops, and operates landfill gas-to-energy facilities that produce renewable electricity and renewable natural gas. It also operates materials processing and commodities recycling services, including cardboard, paper, glass, metals, plastics, construction and demolition materials, and other recycling commodities are recovered for resale or redirected for other purposes; markets and resells recycling commodities; recycling brokerage services, such as managing the marketing of recyclable materials for third parties; and other strategic business solutions. In addition, the company collects recyclable food and yard waste, as well as markets and sells mulch, compost, soil amendments, and renewable energy; offers remediation and construction, and industrial waste services; and manages and markets fly ash. Further, it provides Regulated Waste and Compliance Services (RWCS), which offers compliance programs, as well as collection, processing, and disposal of regulated and specialized waste, including medical, pharmaceutical, and hazardous waste; and Secure Information Destruction (SID) services that include the collection of personal and confidential information for secure destruction and recycling of sorted office paper. The company was formerly known as USA Waste Services, Inc. and changed its name to Waste Management, Inc. in 1998. Waste Management, Inc. was founded in 1968 and is based in Houston, Texas.
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Summary
52.7 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
If free cash flow stays at €2.5B (2025), it supports €28.1B. The remaining €54.7B of the market value assume it grows 15.1% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
15.1%
no growth afterwards
Price to operating cash flow 14.6×, below its usual range.
Middle half of 20 quarters: 14.7× to 16.2×, median 15.3×.
Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
with respect to the priced-in expectation
Since the last quarter
Q1 → Q2 2026
6 more unchanged: Revenue, 12 mo., EBIT margin, FCF margin, Net debt, Shares outstanding, Return on equity
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | 27.11% | 13.10% | Rank 85 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 22.61% | 19.33% | Rank 57 |
| EBIT margin | 18.28% | 11.28% | Rank 77 |
| FCF margin | 11.17% | 8.50% | Rank 66 |
| Gross margin | 29.08% | 28.98% | Rank 51 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | 14.24% | 5.15% | Rank 88 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per year | 7.50% | 8.01% | Rank 49 |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per year | 13.74% | 12.89% | Rank 54 |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 12.80% | 4.02% | Rank 88 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 2.84% | 4.42% | Rank 21 |
| FCF yield | 3.05% | 3.98% | Rank 35 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 4.56 | 2.08 | Rank 21 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 24.95 | 19.47 | Rank 31 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | 8.75% | −0.01% | Rank 67 |
| Share price, 6 months | 10.18% | −1.43% | Rank 74 |
| Share price, 3 months | 8.90% | 0.53% | Rank 76 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −4.16% | −16.36% | Rank 89 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | 0.51% | 1.39% | Rank 57 |
| Change in share countlower is better | 0.20% | −0.44% | Rank 16 |
| Dividend streak in years | 26 | 5 | Rank 95 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | −4.75% | 0.27% | Rank 11 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 21.80% | 39.65% | Rank 16 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | 4.48 | 1.38 | Rank 11 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 2.29 | 0.61 | Rank 9 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 21.18% | 32.95% | Rank 94 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, $B | EBIT margin | FCF, $B | Shares | Net debt, $B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 13.6 | 17.7% | 1.6 | 447M | 9.3 |
| 2017 | 14.5 | 18.1% | 1.7 | 442M | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 14.9 | 18.3% | 1.9 | 432M | 10.0 |
| 2019 | 15.5 | 17.8% | 2.1 | 428M | 9.9 |
| 2020 | 15.2 | 16.3% | 1.8 | 425M | 13.3 |
| 2021 | 17.9 | 16.8% | 2.4 | 423M | 13.3 |
| 2022 | 19.7 | 17.5% | 1.9 | 415M | 14.6 |
| 2023 | 20.4 | 18.7% | 1.8 | 407M | 15.8 |
| 2024 | 22.1 | 18.8% | 2.2 | 403M | 23.5 |
| 2025 | 25.2 | 18.3% | 2.8 | 404M | 22.7 |
3 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
Waste Management Inc mainly meets criteria in the Profitability category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
Waste Management Inc is rated here with the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
3 of 7 rules met
5 of 11 points
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Selected fundamental metrics for Waste Management Inc.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 35.3 | 22.5 |
| P/B ratio | 9.6 | 2.9 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 27.1% | 13.1% |
| Equity ratio | 21.8% | 39.7% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 2.29 | 0.61 |
| Dividend yield | 1.5% | 2.0% |
How comparable stocks in the same sector score in the StockScorer model.
| Symbol | Company | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| WM | Waste Management Incthis page | |
| RSG | Republic Services Inc | Medium5.5 |
| WCN.TO | Waste Connections Inc | locked |
| VIE.PA | Veolia Environnement VE SA | locked |
| GFL.TO | Gfl Environmental Holdings Inc | locked |
| CLH | Clean Harbors Inc | locked |
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