Stock Research: Waste Management

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Waste Management

NYSE:WM US94106L1098
24
  • Value
    58
  • Growth
    23
  • Safety
    Safety
    24
  • Combined
    16
  • Sentiment
    50
  • 360° View
    360° View
    24
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Company Description

Waste Management, Inc. is an environmental solutions provider offering collection, recycling, and disposal services. Its main businesses include collection, recycling, disposal, renewable energy from landfill gas, and healthcare solutions such as regulated waste and secure information destruction. The company operates throughout the United States and Canada, including East Tier (Eastern U.S., Great Lakes region, all of Canada) and West Tier (Western U.S., upper Midwest, British Columbia). In the last fiscal year, the company had a market cap of $90880 million, profits of $8680 million, revenue of $22063 million, and 61700 employees.

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Analysis

ANALYSIS: With an Obermatt 360° View of 24 (better than 24% compared with alternatives), overall professional sentiment and financial characteristics for the stock Waste Management are critical, mostly below average. The 360° View is based on consolidating four consolidated indicators, with half below and half above average for Waste Management. The consolidated Sentiment Rank has a good rank of 50, which means that professional investors are more optimistic about the stock than for 50% of alternative investment opportunities. It also rates well regarding its financing structure, with the consolidated Safety Rank at 58 or better than 58% of its peers when looking at the amount of its debt, its refinancing requirements, and its ability to service debt. But the stock is expensive and expects low growth. The consolidated Value Rank is only 24, meaning that the share price of Waste Management is on the high side, compared with indicators such as revenues, profits, and invested capital. The company exhibits below-average growth momentum when looking at financial metrics such as revenue, profit, invested capital growth,and stock returns, with its Growth Rank at 23. ...read more

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The higher the 360° View, the better the stock performed against its peers, considering all metrics. The 360° View represents an average of the other 5 ranks and is then scaled to a rank from 1 to 100. The shaded values are illustrative only.
Last update: 21-Aug-2025.

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Metrics Current 2024 2023 2022
Value
24 15 16 29
Growth
23 29 53 77
Safety
Safety
58 64 53 25
Sentiment
50 69 71 29
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24 78 46 23
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Metrics Current 2024 2023 2022
Analyst Opinions
50 43 45 40
Opinions Change
35 9 50 56
Pro Holdings
n/a 71 82 29
Market Pulse
73 88 66 58
Sentiment
50 69 71 29
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Metrics Current 2024 2023 2022
Value
24 15 16 29
Growth
23 29 53 77
Safety Safety
58 64 53 25
Combined
16 60 27 37
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Metrics Current 2024 2023 2022
Price vs. Sales (P/S)
26 22 33 35
Price vs. Earnings (P/E)
29 25 20 32
Price vs. Book (P/B)
3 3 1 6
Dividend Yield
34 43 44 46
Value
24 15 16 29
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Metrics Current 2024 2023 2022
Revenue Growth
53 53 47 50
Profit Growth
34 42 56 46
Capital Growth
32 31 59 67
Stock Returns
41 41 61 81
Growth
23 29 53 77
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Metrics Current 2024 2023 2022
Leverage
6 18 16 18
Refinancing
52 51 39 5
Liquidity
98 96 96 93
Safety Safety
58 64 53 25

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