Stock Evaluator: Waste Connections, Inc. (WCN)

Waste Connections, Inc. WCN

$167.38 1.11 0.67%
July 31, 2026 4:00:02 PM EST November 10, 2021 Volume: 1,391,660
After Hours: $120.37   0.15  |  0.12% November 10, 2021 7:59 PM EST Volume: 72,713
USD NYSE | DELAYED PRICE
SECTOR INDUSTRY
Industrials Commercial Services & Supplies

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COMPANY SUMMARY
Waste Connections, Inc. provides non-hazardous waste collection, transfer, and disposal 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; develops, owns, and operates projects or the beneficial reuse of landfill gas through landfill network; and intermodal services for the movement of cargo and solid waste containers. In addition, it provides E&P waste treatment, recovery, and disposal services for waste created through the initial drilling and completion of an oil or natural gas well, 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. Waste Connections, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is based in Woodbridge, Canada.

Commentary & Analysis


Financial Summary

Share Statistics WCN Industry
Median
Percentile
(All Stocks)
Market Cap (Mil) $42,188.1 $758.6 92%
Shares Out (Mil) 253.9 40.4 80%
Institutional Ownership 99.7% 76.9% 93%
Float (Mil) 251.2 35.5 77%
Beta 0.48 0.79 27%
Avg Daily Volume (000s) 1,497 296 77%
Price Change
(52-week)
(11.5%) 77.8% 36%
Growth WCN Industry
Median
Percentile
(All Stocks)
Sales (5yr) 11.7% 6.8% 64%
Net Income (5yr) 39.4% 9.2% 90%
EPS (5yr) 39.9% 13.7% 88
Dividends (5yr) 11.2% 0.0% 84%
Cash Flow (5yr) (35.9%) (15.2%) 14%
Estimates Qtrly Current
Fiscal
Year
Next
Fiscal
Year
# of Estimates 21 24 26
Current EPS $1.510 $5.632 $6.203
Month Ago EPS $1.510 $5.508 $6.187
# Rev Up 1 1 1
# Rev Down 0 0 0
Three Months Ago EPS $1.508 $5.506 $6.179
Year/Year Chg 29.2% 35.1% 63.4%
Financials WCN Industry
Median
Percentile
(All Stocks)
Sales (TTM) (Mil) $9,764 $1,551 84%
Net Income (TTM) (Mil) $1,061 $7 87%
EPS (TTM) $4.153 $0.100 84%
Operating Cash Flow (TTM) (Mil) $2,513 $87 90%
Net Cash Flow (TTM) (Mil) ($6) $0 33%
Long-Term Debt (Q1) (Mil) $9,555 $216 91%
Enterprise Value (Q1) (Mil) $52,288 $1,123 92%
Valuation WCN Industry
Median
Percentile
(All Stocks)
P/B 5.33 2.17 80%
P/E 40.4 24.4 78%
Dividend Yield 0.8% 0.0% 65%
PEG (5yr hist) 1.0 1.3 45%
Ratios WCN Industry
Median
Percentile
(All Stocks)
Gross Margin 42.5% 31.1% 53%
Net Margin 10.9% 1.5% 65%
ROA 5.0% 1.0% 72%
ROE 13.0% 3.7% 66%
Liabilities to Assets 63.0% 58.6% 57%
F-Score 8 5 94%

Passing Stock Screens

As of 7/31/2026, from a list of 60 stock screening strategies, WCN meetings the criteria of 1 screen:

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