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Market cap

86.5B

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Market data

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Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E25.7

P25 14.6P50 20.6P75 30.4

Trailing P/E31.2

P25 17.1P50 27.2P75 47.6

ROE29.9

P25 -16.4P50 5.9P75 16.4

ROIC11.3

P25 -10.3P50 5.1P75 12.2

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Indicator catalog

All WM market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

Available fields

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Showing 285 of 285 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Cik	0000823768
Company name	Waste Management, Inc.
Country	United States
Country code	US
Cusip	94106L109
Employees	60,500
Employees Change	-1,200%
Employees Change Percent	-1.94
Enterprise value	$109.2B
Exchange	NYSE
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
In Index	SP500
Industry	Waste Management
IPO Date	1988-06-02
Isin	US94106L1098
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$86.5B
Market cap category	Large-Cap
Price	$215
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	420,049.59x
Sector	Industrials
Sic	4953
Symbol	WM
Website	https://www.wm.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	3.23%
EV Earnings	39.09x
EV Sales Forward	3.94x
EV/EBIT	22.95x
EV/EBITDA	14.25x
EV/FCF	33.2x
EV/Sales	4.3x
FCF yield	3.8%
Forward P/E	25.71x
P/B ratio	8.65x
P/E ratio	31.17x
P/S ratio	3.4x
PE Ratio10 Y	28.82x
PE Ratio3 Y	32.27x
PE Ratio5 Y	32.52x
PEG ratio	2.19x
PS Forward	3.12x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	18.73%
EBITDA Margin	30.15%
FCF margin	12.95%
Gross margin	40.61%
Gross Profit	$10.3B
Gross Profit Growth	13.81%
Gross Profit Growth Q	5.28%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	11.46%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	11.18%
Net Income	$2.8B
Net Income Growth	4.45%
Net Income Growth Q	13.5%
Net Income Growth Quarters	2%
Net Income Growth Years	0%
Net Income Growth3 Y	7.36%
Net Income Growth5 Y	12.42%
Pretax Margin	13.89%
Profit Margin	10.99%
Profit Per Employee	$46,182
Profitable Years	25
ROA	6.6
Roa5y	6.86
ROCE	11.73
ROE	29.94
Roe5y	31.19
ROIC	11.34
Roic5y	11.85

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr10y	15.6%
Cagr15y	14.86%
Cagr1y	-7.17%
Cagr20y	11.96%
Cagr3y	10.21%
Cagr5y	10.49%
Div CAGR10	8.13%
Div CAGR3	8.87%
Div CAGR5	9.13%
EPS Growth	4.07
EPS Growth Q	13.29
EPS Growth Quarters	2
EPS Growth Years	0
EPS Growth3 Y	8.15
EPS Growth5 Y	13.55
FCF Growth	79.1%
FCF Growth Q	125.73%
FCF Growth3 Y	30.13%
FCF Growth5 Y	7.28%
OCF Growth	21.12%
OCF Growth Q	24.26%
OCF Growth10 Y	8.78%
OCF Growth3 Y	13.6%
OCF Growth5 Y	11.01%
Revenue Growth	10.87x
Revenue Growth Q	3.47x
Revenue Growth Quarters	22x
Revenue Growth Years	5x
Revenue Growth3 Y	8.44x
Revenue Growth5 Y	10.25x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$0.56
Assets	$45.7B
Cash	$158M
Current Assets	$4.8B
Current Liabilities	$5.1B
Debt	$22.9B
Debt EBITDA	$2.83
Debt Equity	$2.28
Debt FCF	$6.96
Equity	$10B
Interest Coverage	5.26
Liabilities	$35.7B
Long Term Assets	$40.9B
Long Term Liabilities	$30.5B
Net Cash	$-22.7B
Net Cash By Market Cap	$-26.28
Net Debt EBITDA	$2.97
Net Debt Equity	$2.27
Net Debt FCF	$6.91
Tangible Book Value	$-7.5B
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$-18.68
WACC	6.17

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	0.93
Inventory Turnover	66.64
Net Working Capital	$145M
Quick ratio	0.8
Working Capital	$-338M
Working Capital Turnover	$-41.32

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	-0.2%
Dividend Growth	11.22%
Dividend Growth Years	22%
Dividend per share	$3.78
Dividend Years	29
Dividend Yield	1.76%
Ex Div Date	2026-03-13
Last Dividend	$0.95
Payout Frequency	Quarterly
Payout Ratio	49.49%

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
10Y total return	325.97%
1Y total return	-7.17%
200-day SMA	223
3Y total return	33.88%
50-day SMA	231.3
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50over200
5Y total return	64.68%
All Time High	248.1
All Time High Change	-13.2%
All Time High Date	2026-03-06
All Time Low	9.75
All Time Low Change	2,108.92%
All Time Low Date	1993-11-22
ATR	4.81
Beta	0.5
Beta1y	-0.17
Beta2y	0.09
Ch YTD	-1.98
High	221.7
High52	248.1
High52 Date	2026-03-06
High52ch	-13.2%
Low	215
Low52	194.1
Low52 Date	2025-11-03
Low52ch	10.95%
Ma50ch	-6.9%
Premarket Change Percent	0.02
Premarket Price	$221
Premarket Volume	56,942
Price vs 200-day SMA	-3.41%
RSI	33.25
RSI Monthly	50.21
RSI Weekly	42.61
Sharpe ratio	-0.52x
Sortino ratio	-0.41
Total Return	1.55%
Tr YTD	-1.59
Tr15y	698.74%
Tr1m	-7.69%
Tr1w	-5.86%
Tr3m	-4.66%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	20
Analyst Count Top	6
Analyst Price Target Top	$261
Analyst Ratings	Buy
Analyst Ratings Top	Buy
Earnings EPS Estimate	$1.74
Earnings EPS Estimate Growth	4.19
Earnings Revenue Estimate	6,287,360,976x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	4.48x
Operating Income	$4.8B
Operating Income Growth	10.09
Operating Income Growth Q	6.13
Operating Income Growth3 Y	11.13
Operating Income Growth5 Y	11.81
Operating margin	18.73
Price target	$256
Price Target Change	$19.07
Price Target Change Top	$20.96

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	400,420,277%
Float Percent	99.71%
Net Borrowing	-1,240,000,000
Shares Insiders	0.17%
Shares Institutions	82.71%
Shares Out	401,575,752
Shares Qo Q	-0.02%
Shares Yo Y	0.2%
Short Float	1.55%
Short Ratio	3.41
Short Shares	1.54

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$3.1B
Average Volume	2,034,357.1x
Bv Per Share	24.91
CAPEX	$-3B
Ch10y	254.9
Ch15y	456.4
Ch1m	-7.69
Ch1w	-5.86
Ch1y	-8.55
Ch20y	465.9
Ch3m	-5.04
Ch3y	27.87
Ch5y	52.33
Ch6m	6.66
Change	-2.75%
Change From Open	-2.49
Close	221.5
Days Gap	-0.26
Depreciation Amortization	2,903,000,000
Dollar Volume	566,041,033.6
Earnings Date	2026-04-28
Earnings Time	amc
EBIT	$4.8B
EBITDA	$7.7B
EPS	$6.91
F Score	7
FCF	$3.3B
FCF EV Yield	3.01x
FCF Per Share	$8.19
Financing CF	-2,958,000,000
Fiscal Year End	December
Founded	1,968
Goodwill	13,873,000,000
Graham Number	62.23327
Graham Upside	-71.1
Income Tax	$734M
Investing CF	-3,468,000,000
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-04-28
Last Report Date	2026-03-31
Last Split Type	Never
Last10k Filing Date	2026-02-09
Lynch Fair Value	$85.82
Lynch Upside	-60.15
Ma150	222.5
Ma150ch	-3.18%
Ma20	226
Ma20ch	-4.7%
Net CF	-86,000,000
Next Earnings Date	2026-07-27
Open	220.9
Optionable	Yes
P FCF Ratio	26.29
P OCF Ratio	13.65
Payment Date	2026-03-27
Position In Range	5.96
Post Close	215.4
Postmarket Change Percent	0.37
Postmarket Price	$216
Ppne	20,335,000,000
Pre Close	221.5
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$11.29
Relative Volume	1.29x
Revenue	25,413,000,000x
SBC By Revenue	0.67x
Share Based Comp	170,000,000
Tax By Revenue	2.89x
Tax Rate	20.8%
Tr20y	858.13%
Tr6m	7.5%
Us State	Texas
Views	130
Volume	2,628,226
Z Score	2.95

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Income

WM dividend yield, growth & safety

Yield, payout sustainability, and the multi-year growth streak.

Dividend yield

+1.8%

$3.78 annual per share

Payout ratio

+49.5%

Share of earnings returned as dividends. Below 60% is generally sustainable.

5Y dividend CAGR

+9.1%

22 consecutive years of growth

Total shareholder yield

+1.6%

Next ex-dividend date: 2026-03-13

Performance

WM stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns WM?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+82.7%

Float: +99.7% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+0.2%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

WM momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

33.2

Neutral momentum band

Price vs 200-day MA

-3.4%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

0.50

Less volatile than the market

Sharpe ratio

-0.52

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

Peers

WM vs. sector cohort

Currency-neutral comparison: P/E, P/S, ROIC, 5Y revenue CAGR, and 1Y total return. Market-cap column appears only when every peer reports in the same currency.

Ticker	Name	Market cap	P/E	P/S	ROIC	5Y rev CAGR	1Y total return	Rating
BA	The Boeing Company	187.1B	95.1x	2.0x	-13.6%	+10.3%	+27.9%	بيع
CAT	Caterpillar Inc.	413.4B	44.7x	5.8x	16.5%	+10.5%	+183.2%	بيع
DE	Deere & Company	155.3B	32.4x	3.3x	6.0%	+4.8%	+23.3%	بيع

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