WM Waste Management, Inc.
Trend channel, buy level and 3-month target. Information only, not financial advice.
Inside the channel · 12-month channel rising
Price is between the lines.
- 12-month channel
- US$199.44 – US$262.88 · rising, +4% a year
- Price in channel
- 54% (0% = floor, 100% = ceiling)
- Ceiling overhead
- US$262.70
- Turns bearish below
- US$199.49
Price history, with the path projected 3 months forward
Updated 9:41 PM ET (14 h ago)
- Daily close
- Upper trend line (12 months)
- Lower trend line (12 months)
- The same lines over the last 12 months
- Dashed after today: projected 3 months
- Our buy
- Our target
Suggested path
Buy at or below
US$212.63
level as at 27 Nov 2026
Our target
US$238.14
by 6 Nov 2026
Projected move
12.0%
gross, before costs
Price is between our buy and target.
Target: WM's usual move size (12.0%), the best return per day on this path.
This move size: reached in 20% of 14 past stretches, typically in 83 days. (0.14% per day)
- Upper line touches
- 4
- Lower line touches
- 4
- Fit confidence
- 67%
- Fitted
- 1 Nov 2026
Company information
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 scores from the fundamentals below (not Morningstar ratings).
- Valuation
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- Profitability
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- Financial health
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- Cash generation
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Key statistics
- Market cap
- US$93.31B
- Enterprise value
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- Beta
- 0.43
- Avg volume
- 2.21M
- Revenue per share
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- Dividend yield
- —
- 52-week range
- 194.11-248.13
- Exchange
- NYSE
Key ratios
- P/E (TTM)
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- PEG
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- Price / sales
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- Price / book
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- EV / EBITDA
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- Gross margin
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- Operating margin
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- Net margin
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- Current ratio
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- Quick ratio
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- Debt / equity
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- Interest cover
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Income statement
Balance sheet
Cash flow
Trend lines are fitted to past swing highs and lows and may not continue. Information only, not financial advice.