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Waste Connections, Inc. (WCN)

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195.89
+0.10
+(0.05%)
At close: 3:59:55 PM EDT
195.99
+0.10
+(0.05%)
After hours: 4:00:50 PM EDT

Valuation Measures

Annual Monthly
Currency in USD Download
Current12/31/20249/30/20246/30/20243/31/202412/31/2023
Market Cap 50.59B 44.27B 46.14B 45.24B 44.37B 38.46B
Enterprise Value 58.92B 52.64B 54.07B 53.22B 51.32B 45.47B
Trailing P/E 81.92 47.14 53.70 57.12 58.31 46.50
Forward P/E 26.18 22.62 24.21 26.88 26.45 22.83
PEG Ratio (5yr expected) -- -- -- -- -- --
Price/Sales 5.68 5.10 5.49 5.53 5.54 4.90
Price/Book 6.44 5.36 5.78 5.81 5.77 5.07
Enterprise Value/Revenue 6.61 6.05 6.42 6.50 6.40 5.79
Enterprise Value/EBITDA 26.14 20.13 22.04 22.87 22.69 19.46
12/31/2023 - 5/22/1998

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Financial Highlights

Fiscal Year

Fiscal Year Ends 12/31/2024
Most Recent Quarter (mrq) 12/31/2024

Profitability

Profit Margin 6.92%
Operating Margin (ttm) -2.99%

Management Effectiveness

Return on Assets (ttm) 4.06%
Return on Equity (ttm) 7.93%

Income Statement

Revenue (ttm) 8.92B
Revenue Per Share (ttm) 34.58
Quarterly Revenue Growth (yoy) 11.00%
Gross Profit (ttm) 3.73B
EBITDA 2.39B
Net Income Avi to Common (ttm) 617.57M
Diluted EPS (ttm) 2.39
Quarterly Earnings Growth (yoy) --

Balance Sheet

Total Cash (mrq) 72.91M
Total Cash Per Share (mrq) 0.28
Total Debt (mrq) 8.41B
Total Debt/Equity (mrq) 106.97%
Current Ratio (mrq) 0.65
Book Value Per Share (mrq) 30.46

Cash Flow Statement

Operating Cash Flow (ttm) 2.23B
Levered Free Cash Flow (ttm) 853M

Trading Information

Stock Price History

Beta (5Y Monthly) 0.67
52 Week Change 3 18.90%
S&P 500 52-Week Change 3 7.02%
52 Week High 3 201.66
52 Week Low 3 160.34
50-Day Moving Average 3 189.54
200-Day Moving Average 3 182.94

Share Statistics

Avg Vol (3 month) 3 1.13M
Avg Vol (10 day) 3 1.88M
Shares Outstanding 5 258.36M
Implied Shares Outstanding 6 258.36M
Float 8 257.24M
% Held by Insiders 1 0.21%
% Held by Institutions 1 89.09%
Shares Short (3/31/2025) 4 2.15M
Short Ratio (3/31/2025) 4 2.13
Short % of Float (3/31/2025) 4 0.94%
Short % of Shares Outstanding (3/31/2025) 4 0.83%
Shares Short (prior month 2/28/2025) 4 2.25M

Dividends & Splits

Forward Annual Dividend Rate 4 1.26
Forward Annual Dividend Yield 4 0.64%
Trailing Annual Dividend Rate 3 1.17
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield 3 0.60%
5 Year Average Dividend Yield 4 0.69
Payout Ratio 4 48.95%
Dividend Date 3 3/13/2025
Ex-Dividend Date 4 2/27/2025
Last Split Factor 2 3:2
Last Split Date 3 6/19/2017

Footnotes

  • 1 Data provided by Refinitiv.
  • 2 Data provided by EDGAR Online.
  • 3 Data derived from multiple sources or calculated by Yahoo Finance.
  • 4 Data provided by Morningstar, Inc.
  • 5 Shares outstanding is taken from the most recently filed quarterly or annual report and Market Cap is calculated using shares outstanding.
  • 6 Implied Shares Outstanding of common equity, assuming the conversion of all convertible subsidiary equity into common.
  • 7 EBITDA is calculated by S&P Global Market Intelligence using methodology that may differ from that used by a company in its reporting.
  • 8 A company's float is a measure of the number of shares available for trading by the public. It's calculated by taking the number of issued and outstanding shares minus any restricted stock, which may not be publicly traded.

Abbreviation Guide

  • mrq = Most Recent Quarter
  • ttm = Trailing Twelve Months
  • yoy = Year Over Year
  • lfy = Last Fiscal Year
  • fye = Fiscal Year Ending

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