WM Waste Management, Inc.
Waste Management, Inc. (WM) trend channel, buy level and 3-month target on Trade The Path. Sector: Industrials. Listed on NYSE. Levels below are fitted to this ticker's own swing highs and lows (TheilβSen, log-price), then projected 3 months. If this ticker has no settled sample yet, treat the numbers as a geometric read, not a track record. Information only, not financial advice.
In the buy zone
Price is sitting on the lower trend line β the level that has repeatedly held.
Read from the last 3 years of history we hold: rising, drifting +9% a year. The target of US$237.20 is below the nearest ceiling (US$252.66), so it does not depend on a breakout. What would overturn this: a close below US$214.80 β the floor of the channel being read β after which the trend, not the entry, is what was wrong.
- 3 years read from
- US$214.80 β US$252.66 Rising channel, +9% a year
- Position in that channel
- -2% below the floor of it β 0% is the floor, 100% the ceiling
Price history, with the path projected 3 months forward
- Daily close
- Upper trend line (3 years)
- Lower trend line (3 years)
- Dashed after today: projected 3 months
- Our buy
- Our target
Suggested path
Buy now
US$214.01
last close Β· 16 Sept 2026
Channel buy is US$223.78; last close is the better price available now.
Our target
US$237.20
by 10 Oct 2026
Projected move
10.8%
gross, before costs
Last close is our buy β the best price available now.
The lines are drawn where this stock has actually turned: 9 touches on the ceiling, 8 on the floor, each fitted to the slope that catches the most of them. Buying one average daily range below its 50-day mean, on heavier volume than usual and while it is still above its 200-day mean, has come up 791 times; measured against the 6% floor β the least a call has to be worth to be worth making, not what it aims at β 73% cleared it, typically in 34 days, with price going about 5% against the entry along the way (63% in the worst case we have on record). Trades that have not reached the target within 3 months are counted as misses, whatever they are worth at the time. The prices above are this stockβs own β its average, its volatility β but the setup is the same one we apply everywhere: derived on eight unrelated tickers, then confirmed on 87 others it was never fitted to. We deliberately do not tune it to each stock: doing so scores worse on history the tuning never saw β 58% against 71% β because it fits the past rather than the future. On this stock the setup has come up 12 times so far, reaching target 67% of the time. The sell price comes from where this stock is projected to be, not from a minimum worth taking: the fitted path reaches 14% above the entry within 90 days, and of the sizes that path supports, 6% is the one that has returned the most per day of money tied up here β measured over the 14 times this entry has come up on this chart, reached 79% of the time, typically in 25 days. Smaller sizes got there sooner but paid less for the weeks they used; larger ones need a break above the projected ceiling, which is not the base case. The date published is whichever is later: that typical time, or the day the projected path itself reaches the price. It is a prediction, so it can be revised: if the run tops out before it gets there, the target is cut to what is actually on the table and you are told the same day. An ordinary pullback is not treated as topping out β those go on to make a new high about 8 times in 10, so they are ridden through. What triggers the revision is price closing below its 50-day trend and staying there, after which the odds of recovery fall to roughly 3 in 10.
- Upper line touches
- 9
- Lower line touches
- 8
- Fit confidence
- 41%
- Fitted
- 15 Sept 2026
About Waste Management, Inc.
Waste Management, Inc. (WM) functions as a premier provider of environmental waste solutions across North America, serving a diverse client base that includes residential, commercial, industrial, and municipal customers. The company's core operations involve comprehensive collection services, which include gathering and transporting both waste materials and recyclables from their initial point of generation to designated transfer stations, material recovery facilities (MRFs), or final disposal sites. Waste Management maintains an extensive network of facilities, owning, developing, and operating landfill gas-to-energy plants within the United States, in addition to managing numerous transfer stations. As of December 31, 2021, its substantial infrastructure consisted of 255 solid waste landfills, 5 secure hazardous waste landfills, 96 material recovery facilities, and 340 transfer stations. Beyond primary collection and disposal, WM offers services in materials processing and commodities recycling. This extends to recycling brokerage, where they handle the marketing of recyclable goods for third-party entities, alongside providing various other strategic business solutions. Its service portfolio also encompasses construction and remediation projects, the responsible management of fly ash and other residues generated from coal and fuel combustion, and specialized in-plant services offering full-spectrum waste management consulting. Furthermore, the company delivers tailored disposal solutions for oil and gas exploration and production activities. Originally incorporated in 1987 as USA Waste Services, Inc., the company rebranded to Waste Management, Inc. in 1998. Its corporate headquarters are situated in Houston, Texas.
- Sector
- Industrials
- Industry
- Waste Management
- CEO
- James C. Fish Jr.
- Employees
- 60,500
- Country
- US
Scorecard
Our own pillar scores, computed from the fundamentals below. They are not Morningstar ratings β that data is licensed and we do not redistribute it.
- Valuation
- β
- Profitability
- β
- Financial health
- β
- Cash generation
- β
Key statistics
- Market cap
- US$87.17B
- Enterprise value
- β
- Beta
- 0.43
- Avg volume
- 2.15M
- Revenue per share
- β
- Dividend yield
- β
- 52-week range
- 194.11-248.13
- Exchange
- NYSE
Key ratios
- P/E (TTM)
- β
- PEG
- β
- Price / sales
- β
- Price / book
- β
- EV / EBITDA
- β
- Gross margin
- β
- Operating margin
- β
- Net margin
- β
- Current ratio
- β
- Quick ratio
- β
- Debt / equity
- β
- Interest cover
- β
Income statement
Balance sheet
Cash flow
Trend lines are fitted statistically to past swing highs and lows and projected forward on the assumption the same rhythm continues. It often does not. This is information, not advice.