Waste Connections is a waste management business based in the US. Waste Connections shares (WCN) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Waste Connections employs 23,854 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $9.4 billion.
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Waste Connections stock price (NYSE: WCN)
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Waste Connections price performance over time
Historical closes compared with the close of $176.55 from 2025-11-28
1 week (2025-11-26)
-0.27%
1 month (2025-11-04)
4.63%
3 months (2025-09-04)
-2.60%
6 months (2025-06-04)
-7.82%
1 year (2024-12-04)
-7.57%
2 years (2023-12-04)
27.11%
3 years (2022-12-02)
23.14%
5 years (2020-12-04)
80.54%
Is Waste Connections stock undervalued or overvalued?
Valuing Waste Connections stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Waste Connections's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Waste Connections's P/E ratio
Waste Connections's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 74x. In other words, Waste Connections shares trade at around 74x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
Waste Connections's PEG ratio
Waste Connections's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.2379. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Waste Connections's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Waste Connections's EBITDA
Waste Connections's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $2.5 billion.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Waste Connections's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
Waste Connections financials
Revenue TTM
$9.4 billion
Operating margin TTM
19.25%
Gross profit TTM
$3.9 billion
Return on assets TTM
3.89%
Return on equity TTM
7.61%
Profit margin
6.65%
Book value
$31.62
Market Capitalization
$45.4 billion
TTM: trailing 12 months
Waste Connections share dividends
Dividend payout ratio: 25.8% of net profits
Recently Waste Connections has paid out, on average, around 0% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Waste Connections shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Waste Connections's case, that would currently equate to about $1.26 per share.
While Waste Connections's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Waste Connections may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.
Waste Connections's most recent dividend payout was on 19 November 2025. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 4 November 2025 (the "ex-dividend date").
Have Waste Connections's shares ever split?
Waste Connections's shares were
split on a 3:2 basis on 18 June 2017
. So if you had owned 2 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 3 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Waste Connections shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 33.3% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Waste Connections shares which in turn could have impacted Waste Connections's share price.
Waste Connections share price volatility
Over the last 12 months, Waste Connections's shares have ranged in value from as little as $163.27 up to $200.5834. 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 Connections's is 0.617. This would suggest that Waste Connections's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
Waste Connections overview
Waste Connections, Inc. provides non-hazardous waste collection, transfer, disposal, and resource recovery services in the United States and Canada. It offers collection services to residential, commercial, municipal, industrial, and exploration and production (E&P) customers; landfill disposal services; and recycling services for various recyclable materials, including compost, cardboard, mixed paper, plastic containers, glass bottles, and ferrous and aluminum metals. The company owns and operates transfer stations that receive compact and/or load waste to be transported to landfills or treatment facilities through truck, rail, or barge; and intermodal services for the rail haul movement of cargo and solid waste containers in the Pacific Northwest through a network of intermodal facilities. In addition, it provides E&P waste treatment, recovery, and disposal services for waste resulting from oil and natural gas exploration and production activity, such as drilling fluids, drill cuttings, completion fluids, and flowback water; production wastes and produced water during a well's operating life; contaminated soils that require treatment during site reclamation; and substances, which require clean-up after a spill, reserve pit clean-up, or pipeline rupture. Further, the company offers leasing services. Waste Connections, Inc.
Frequently asked questions
What percentage of Waste Connections is owned by insiders or institutions? Currently 0.24% of Waste Connections shares are held by insiders and 89.157% by institutions.How many people work for Waste Connections? Latest data suggests 23,854 work at Waste Connections.When does the fiscal year end for Waste Connections? Waste Connections's fiscal year ends in December.Where is Waste Connections based? Waste Connections's address is: 6220 Highway 7, Woodbridge, ON, Canada, L4H 4G3What is Waste Connections's ISIN number? Waste Connections's international securities identification number is: CA94106B1013What is Waste Connections's CUSIP number? Waste Connections's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 44951D108
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