The Bid & Ask

Quotations, Dispatches, and the Daily Tape

Thursday, August 13, 2026

Subject of the day

WM

Concerning the House

Waste Management, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides environmental solutions to residential, commercial, industrial, and municipal customers in the United States, Canada, Western Europe, and internationally. It offers collection services, including picking up and transporting waste and recyclable materials from where it was generated to a transfer station, recovery facility, or disposal site; owns and operates transfer stations; and owns, develops, and operates landfill gas-to-energy facilities that produce renewable electricity and renewable natural gas. It also operates materials processing and commodities recycling services, including cardboard, paper, glass, metals, plastics, construction and demolition materials, and other recycling commodities are recovered for resale or redirected for other purposes; markets and resells recycling commodities; recycling brokerage services, such as managing the marketing of recyclable materials for third parties; and other strategic business solutions. In addition, the company collects recyclable food and yard waste, as well as markets and sells mulch, compost, soil amendments, and renewable energy; offers remediation and construction, and industrial waste services; and manages and markets fly ash. Further, it provides Regulated Waste and Compliance Services (RWCS), which offers compliance programs, as well as collection, processing, and disposal of regulated and specialized waste, including medical, pharmaceutical, and hazardous waste; and Secure Information Destruction (SID) services that include the collection of personal and confidential information for secure destruction and recycling of sorted office paper. The company was formerly known as USA Waste Services, Inc. and changed its name to Waste Management, Inc. in 1998. Waste Management, Inc. was founded in 1968 and is based in Houston, Texas.

United States · www.wm.com

The Long Run

FY 2009–2025 · 17 years

LineLatestCAGRTrend
Revenue$25.20B+4.0%
Operating income$4.31B+4.2%
Net income$2.30B+6.2%
Cash from ops$4.72B+5.5%
Quotation

$224.21

-2.11 (-0.9%)

52w hi$244.47
52w lo$194.39
Vol1.79M
As ofAug 13
The Verdict

Hold

Our score +0.15

Short+0.21
Medium+0.17
Long-0.02

computed 2026-08-13

By the Numbers

Waste Management, Inc.

Industrials · Waste Management

Market cap$89.62B
Enterprise value$113.26B
Trailing P/E59.00x
Forward P/E24.53x
EV / EBITDA14.57x
P / S (ttm)3.49x
Profit margin11.1%
Return on equity29.8%
Revenue growth+4.0%
Earnings growth+8.3%
Debt / equity235.30
Risk Metrics
Beta vs SPX0.10
Corr SPX0.09
Annual vol19.2%
Annual ret+6.1%
Sharpe0.32
Max DD-18.7%

Window: 504 trading days (504 obs)

Layer Breakdown
LayerRawContribution
Fundamental+0.15
Sector+0.07
Technical+0.17
Earnings+0.00
Sentiment+0.00

macro × 1.00 · 2026-08-13

Recent Sessions
DateOpenHighLowCloseVol
Aug 13$227.59$228.37$224.17$224.211.79M
Aug 12$225.05$228.39$223.46$226.321.38M
Aug 11$225.68$228.98$225.68$226.851.31M
Aug 10$227.18$227.89$225.56$226.601.51M
Aug 7$227.38$231.56$226.70$227.681.68M