Waste Management (WM)
Industrials · Integrated waste management and environmental solutions
North America's largest waste and environmental solutions provider, combining traditional collection and disposal with renewable energy generation and healthcare compliance services.
What Waste Management does
Waste Management is North America's leading comprehensive environmental solutions company providing collection, transfer, disposal, and recycling services across the U.S. and Canada through a network of 257 landfills and 342 transfer stations. The company generates renewable energy through landfill gas-to-energy facilities producing renewable electricity and natural gas for its fleet. Following its 2024 Stericycle acquisition, it also delivers regulated waste and secure information destruction services in healthcare, while operating a major materials recycling business processing paper, cardboard, glass, plastic and metal.
Themes: ["Renewable energy infrastructure","Waste diversion and resource recovery","Sustainability and environmental stewardship","Landfill gas-to-energy","Healthcare compliance and medical waste","Recycling and circular economy","Operational automation","EV fleet sustainability (natural gas vehicles)"]
Fundamentals
- Price$233.94 as of 2026-07-08 close
- Market cap$96.2B as of 2026-07-09
- 1-year return+4.0% as of 2026-07-08 close
- P/E34.42 as of 2026-07-09
- Net margin+11.0% as of 2026-07-09
- Gross margin+40.7% as of 2026-07-09
- ROE+28.9% as of 2026-07-09
- Debt / equity2.28 as of 2026-07-09
- Revenue growth (YoY)+10.9% as of 2026-07-09
- Revenue CAGR (3y)+8.6% SEC XBRL
- Beta0.44 as of 2026-07-09
Dividend: yield +1.7%; 5-year non-decreasing per-share dividend streak (SEC XBRL).
Key risks (from latest filing)
["Landfill capacity constraints and diminishing disposal opportunities requiring increased investment in alternatives and higher disposal costs","Integration risks from the large Stericycle acquisition, including failure to achieve anticipated synergies and challenges integrating medical waste and information destruction businesses","Commodity price volatility, inflationary labor costs, union organizing activities, and macroeconomic disruptions affecting margins and operational costs"]
Competitors & peers
Fundamentals: Finnhub, as of 2026-07-09. Filings: SEC EDGAR. Prices are delayed daily-close data.
Last updated 2026-07-08.
Informational only — NOT financial advice. All figures are delayed daily-close data from SEC EDGAR & Finnhub, shown with their as-of date.