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Fair value pending

Upside to midpoint

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Market cap

5.4B

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Market data

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Current market quote for this ticker.

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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/E73.5

P25 14.6P50 20.6P75 30.4

Trailing P/E761

P25 17.1P50 27.2P75 47.6

ROE0.5

P25 -16.4P50 5.9P75 16.4

ROIC2

P25 -10.3P50 5.1P75 12.2

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All CWST 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 261 of 261 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

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

Metric	Value
Cik	0000911177
Company name	Casella Waste Systems, Inc.
Country	United States
Country code	US
Cusip	147448104
Employees	5,600
Employees Change	500%
Employees Change Percent	9.8
Enterprise value	$6.5B
Exchange	NASDAQ
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
Industry	Waste Management
IPO Date	1997-10-28
Isin	US1474481041
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$5.4B
Market cap category	Mid-Cap
Price	$85.44
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	335,190.71x
Sector	Industrials
Sic	4953
Symbol	CWST
Website	https://www.casella.com

Valuation

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

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	0.13%
EV Earnings	916.82x
EV Sales Forward	3.14x
EV/EBIT	70.56x
EV/EBITDA	16.12x
EV/FCF	63.99x
EV/Sales	3.49x
FCF yield	1.88%
Forward P/E	73.51x
P/B ratio	3.47x
P/E ratio	760.97x
P/S ratio	2.9x
PE Ratio10 Y	255x
PE Ratio3 Y	465.89x
PE Ratio5 Y	309.76x
PS Forward	2.6x

Profitability

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

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	4.94%
EBITDA Margin	21.64%
FCF margin	5.45%
Gross margin	33.67%
Gross Profit	$632M
Gross Profit Growth	13.59%
Gross Profit Growth Q	8.6%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	19.24%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	18.81%
Net Income	$7.1M
Net Income Growth	-44.39%
Net Income Growth Years	0%
Net Income Growth3 Y	-48.55%
Net Income Growth5 Y	-40.34%
Pretax Margin	0.66%
Profit Margin	0.38%
Profit Per Employee	$1,275
Profitable Years	8
ROA	1.79
Roa5y	3.23
ROCE	3.08
ROE	0.46
Roe5y	5.38
ROIC	2
Roic5y	4.67

Growth

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

Metric	Value
Cagr10y	28.16%
Cagr15y	18.6%
Cagr1y	-28.96%
Cagr20y	8.71%
Cagr3y	-1.98%
Cagr5y	4.68%
EPS Growth	-47.35
EPS Growth Years	0
EPS Growth3 Y	-52.35
EPS Growth5 Y	-43.43
FCF Growth	7.32%
FCF Growth3 Y	12.04%
FCF Growth5 Y	19.39%
OCF Growth	5.59%
OCF Growth Q	24.2%
OCF Growth10 Y	15.94%
OCF Growth3 Y	17.89%
OCF Growth5 Y	16.8%
Revenue Growth	14.92x
Revenue Growth Q	9.64x
Revenue Growth Quarters	44x
Revenue Growth Years	12x
Revenue Growth3 Y	19.01x
Revenue Growth5 Y	19.16x

Financial strength

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

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$0.58
Assets	$3.3B
Cash	$129M
Current Assets	$359.7M
Current Liabilities	$260M
Debt	$1.2B
Debt EBITDA	$2.82
Debt Equity	$0.79
Debt FCF	$12.14
Equity	$1.6B
Interest Coverage	1.48
Liabilities	$1.7B
Long Term Assets	$2.9B
Long Term Liabilities	$1.4B
Net Cash	$-1.1B
Net Cash By Market Cap	$-20.48
Net Debt EBITDA	$2.74
Net Debt Equity	$0.71
Net Debt FCF	$10.88
Tangible Book Value	$101.7M
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$1.6
WACC	7.45

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	1.38
Net Working Capital	$9.2M
Quick ratio	1.17
Working Capital	$99.7M
Working Capital Turnover	$11.04

Dividends and buybacks

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

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	-4.23%
Dividend Yield	0%

Performance and technicals

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

Metric	Value
10Y total return	1,094.97%
1Y total return	-28.95%
200-day SMA	93.5
3Y total return	-5.83%
50-day SMA	84.45
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50under200
5Y total return	25.7%
All Time High	121.2
All Time High Change	-29.53%
All Time High Date	2025-05-07
All Time Low	0.53
All Time Low Change	16,020.75%
All Time Low Date	2009-03-13
ATR	3.33
Beta	0.77
Beta1y	0.26
Beta2y	0.36
Ch YTD	-12.76
High	85.92
High52	121
High52 Date	2025-05-08
High52ch	-29.41%
Low	83.38
Low52	74.05
Low52 Date	2026-03-25
Low52ch	15.38%
Ma50ch	1.17%
Price vs 200-day SMA	-8.62%
RSI	54.32
RSI Monthly	43.02
RSI Weekly	44.05
Sharpe ratio	-1x
Sortino ratio	-1.2
Total Return	-4.23%
Tr YTD	-12.76
Tr15y	1,192.59%
Tr1m	-0.45%
Tr1w	-1.6%
Tr3m	-18.36%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	7
Analyst Count Top	4
Analyst Price Target Top	$121
Analyst Ratings	Strong Buy
Analyst Ratings Top	Strong Buy
Earnings EPS Estimate	$0.11
Earnings EPS Estimate Growth	-42.11
Earnings Revenue Estimate	453,444,000x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	8.71x
Operating Income	$92.8M
Operating Income Growth	-8.22
Operating Income Growth Q	41.73
Operating Income Growth3 Y	-3.21
Operating Income Growth5 Y	5.89
Operating margin	4.94
Price target	$116
Price Target Change	$35.6
Price Target Change Top	$41.91

Ownership and float

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

Metric	Value
Float	62,205,859%
Float Percent	97.79%
Net Borrowing	-28,887,000
Shares Insiders	2.18%
Shares Institutions	121.98%
Shares Out	63,609,941
Shares Qo Q	0.08%
Shares Yo Y	4.24%
Short Float	6.71%
Short Ratio	5
Short Shares	6.56

Other indicators

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

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$90.2M
Average Volume	859,404.7x
Bv Per Share	24.65
CAPEX	$-239.6M
Ch10y	1,095
Ch15y	1,192.6
Ch1m	-0.45
Ch1w	-1.6
Ch1y	-28.95
Ch20y	431
Ch3m	-18.36
Ch3y	-5.83
Ch5y	25.7
Ch6m	-3
Change	-0.01%
Change From Open	0.29
Close	85.45
Days Gap	-0.3
Depreciation Amortization	313,326,000
Dollar Volume	40,893,890.9
Earnings Date	2026-04-30
Earnings Time	amc
EBIT	$92.8M
EBITDA	$406.1M
EPS	$0.11
F Score	6
FCF	$102.3M
FCF EV Yield	1.56x
FCF Per Share	$1.61
Financing CF	-30,395,000
Fiscal Year End	December
Founded	1,975
Goodwill	1,194,100,000
Graham Number	7.80223
Graham Upside	-90.87
Income Tax	$5.2M
Investing CF	-454,507,000
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-04-30
Last Report Date	2026-03-31
Last Split Type	Never
Last10k Filing Date	2026-02-20
Lynch Fair Value	$0.55
Lynch Upside	-99.36
Ma150	92.33
Ma150ch	-7.46%
Ma20	82.15
Ma20ch	4.01%
Net CF	-142,996,000
Next Earnings Date	2026-07-30
Open	85.19
Optionable	Yes
P FCF Ratio	53.11
P OCF Ratio	15.9
Position In Range	81.1
Post Close	85.44
Postmarket Change Percent	-0.5
Postmarket Price	$85.01
Ppne	1,408,990,000
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$13.38
Ptbv Ratio	53.43
Relative Volume	0.56x
Revenue	1,877,068,000x
SBC By Revenue	0.65x
Share Based Comp	12,172,000
Tax By Revenue	0.28x
Tax Rate	42.23%
Tr20y	431.01%
Tr6m	-3%
Us State	Vermont
Volume	478,627
Z Score	2.91

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Next action

Research pending

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Income

Does CWST pay a dividend?

Capital-return profile for this ticker.

Performance

CWST stock returns vs the market

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

Ownership

Who owns CWST?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+122.0%

Float: +97.8% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+2.2%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

CWST momentum and risk profile

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

RSI (14)

54.3

Neutral momentum band

Price vs 200-day MA

-8.6%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

0.77

Less volatile than the market

Sharpe ratio

-1.00

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

Peers

CWST 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%	فروش
CAT	Caterpillar Inc.	413.4B	44.7x	5.8x	16.5%	+10.5%	+183.2%	فروش
DE	Deere & Company	155.3B	32.4x	3.3x	6.0%	+4.8%	+23.3%	فروش

Questions

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