Waste Connections
$214.44Change from previous close: −2.12%Absolute change: −$4.64
Valuation
Data as of October 2, 2026
Valuation multiples
- Market cap
- $53.95B
- Enterprise value
- $63.59B
- P/E (trailing 12 months)
- 36.8
- Forward P/E
- 24.3
- PEG
- 1.51
- Price/book
- 4.92
- Price/sales
- 5.53
- EV/EBITDA
- 20.4
- EV/revenue
- 6.51
Profitability and growth
- Gross margin
- 42.5%
- Operating margin
- 19.7%
- Net margin
- 10.9%
- ROE
- 13.0%
- ROA
- 5.5%
- Revenue growth (year over year)
- 6.4%
- Earnings growth (year over year)
- 4.4%
Financial health
- Total cash
- $100.52M
- Total debt
- $9.64B
- Debt/equity
- 1.22
- Current ratio
- 0.66
- Quick ratio
- 0.55
Dividends
- Annual dividend per share
- $1.93
- Dividend yield
- 0.9%
- Payout ratio
- 33.0%
- Ex-dividend date
- August 6, 2026
Analysts and estimates
- Average price target
- $263.39
- Median price target
- $276.66
- High price target
- $307.96
- Low price target
- $199.54
- Analysts with a price target
- 7
- Consensus
- Strong buy
- Forward EPS
- $8.81
- EPS estimate, current year
- $5.65
Shares and trading
- Beta
- 0.47
- Average volume
- 359.7K
- Shares outstanding
- 251.57M
- Float
- 251.19M
- Institutional ownership
- 91.5%
- Insider ownership
- 0.3%
- Short interest (% of float)
- 0.4%
- Short ratio (days)
- 2.76