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Waste Management is a waste management business based in the US. Waste Management stocks (WM.US) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $164.96 – an increase of 2.28% over the previous week. Waste Management employs 49,500 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $19.9 billion.
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| Latest market close | $164.96 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $136.60 - $173.08 |
| 50-day moving average | $164.10 |
| 200-day moving average | $160.94 |
| Wall St. target price | $176.61 |
| PE ratio | 30.2679 |
| Dividend yield | $2.65 (1.72%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $5.45 |
Note: The dollar amounts in the table below are in Canadian dollars.
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Historical closes compared with the close of $164.96 from 2023-06-02
| 1 week (2023-05-30) | 1.73% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2023-05-05) | -2.06% |
| 3 months (2023-03-06) | 9.41% |
| 6 months (2022-12-06) | -0.36% |
| 1 year (2022-06-06) | 4.44% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2021-06-04) | 17.20% |
| 3 years (2020-06-05) | 47.02% |
| 5 years (2018-06-06) | 96.90% |
Valuing Waste Management stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Waste Management's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
| Revenue TTM | $19.9 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 17.4% |
| Gross profit TTM | $7.4 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 7.16% |
| Return on equity TTM | 32.36% |
| Profit margin | 11.33% |
| Book value | $16.70 |
| Market capitalisation | $67.1 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Environmental, social and governance (known as ESG) criteria are a set of three factors used to measure the sustainability and social impact of companies like Waste Management.
When it comes to ESG scores, lower is better, and lower scores are generally associated with lower risk for would-be investors.
Total ESG risk: 10.59
Socially conscious investors use ESG scores to screen how an investment aligns with their worldview, and Waste Management's overall score of 10.59 (as at 01/01/2019) is excellent – landing it in it in the 5th percentile of companies rated in the same sector.
ESG scores are increasingly used to estimate the level of risk a company like Waste Management is exposed to within the areas of "environmental" (carbon footprint, resource use etc.), "social" (health and safety, human rights etc.), and "governance" (anti-corruption, tax transparency etc.).
Environmental score: 3.19/100
Social score: 3.11/100
Governance score: 0.22/100
Controversy score: 2/5
ESG scores also evaluate any incidences of controversy that a company has been involved in. Waste Management scored a 2 out of 5 for controversy – the second-highest score possible, reflecting that Waste Management has, for the most part, managed to keep its nose clean.
Dividend payout ratio: 48.13% of net profits
Recently Waste Management has paid out, on average, around 48.13% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 1.72% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Waste Management shareholders could enjoy a 1.72% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Waste Management's case, that would currently equate to about $2.65 per share.
While Waste Management's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Waste Management may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.
Waste Management's most recent dividend payout was on 16 June 2023. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 1 June 2023 (the "ex-dividend date").
Over the last 12 months, Waste Management's shares have ranged in value from as little as $136.5974 up to $173.0751. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Waste Management's is 0.7305. This would suggest that Waste Management's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
Waste Management, Inc. , through its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of environmental solutions to residential, commercial, industrial, and municipal customers in the United States and Canada. It offers collection services, including picking up and transporting waste and recyclable materials from where it was generated to a transfer station, material recovery facility (MRF), or disposal site; and owns and operates transfer stations, as well as owns, develops, and operates landfill facilities that produce landfill gas used as renewable natural gas for generating electricity. As of December 31, 2022, the company owned or operated 254 solid waste landfills, five secure hazardous waste landfills, 97 MRFs, and 337 transfer stations. It also provides materials processing and commodities recycling services at its MRFs, where cardboard, paper, glass, metals, plastics, construction and demolition materials, and other recycling commodities are recovered for resale or redirected for other purposes; recycling brokerage services, such as managing the marketing of recyclable materials for third parties; and other strategic business solutions. In addition, the company offers construction and remediation services; services related with the disposal of fly ash, and residue generated from the combustion of coal and other fuel stocks; in-plant services comprising full-service waste management solutions and consulting services; and specialized disposal services for oil and gas exploration and production operations. The company was formerly known as USA Waste Services, Inc.
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