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WM Waste Management Inc
NYSE USD Industrials
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As of 29 Oct 2026
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Market facts
- Market cap
- 90B
- P/E ratio
- 32.07
- Analyst target
- 253.52
- Dividend yield
- 1.6%
- Beta
- 0.43
Profile
Instrument facts
- Exchange
- NYSE
- Currency
- USD
- Sector
- Industrials
- Industry
- Waste Management
- ISIN
- Not available
- Market cap
- 90B
- P/E ratio
- 32.07
- Analyst target
- 253.52
- Dividend yield
- 1.6%
- Beta
- 0.43
About
About Waste Management Inc
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.
Research context
Waste Management Inc appears in PyInvesting’s US Stock catalogue. The price history above describes this recorded instrument; it does not by itself identify a company’s business or establish a continuous investment return.
- Currency
- USD
- Sector
- Industrials
- Industry
- Waste Management
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5 years, 6 months ago
Waste Management, Inc is currently in a long term uptrend where the price is trading 14.4% above its 200 day moving average.
From a valuation standpoint, the stock is 93.0% cheaper than other stocks from the Industrials sector with a price to sales ratio of 3.7.
Waste Management, Inc's total revenue rose by 5.7% to $4B since the same quarter in the previous year.
Its net income has dropped by 2.0% to $438M since the same quarter in the previous year.
Finally, its free cash flow fell by 165.9% to $-485M since the same quarter in the previous year.
Based on the above factors, Waste Management, Inc gets an overall score of 3/5.