Waste Management
$201.90Change from previous close: −0.99%Absolute change: −$2.02
Valuation
Data as of October 2, 2026
Valuation multiples
- Market cap
- $80.7B
- Enterprise value
- $103.5B
- P/E (trailing 12 months)
- 28.6
- Forward P/E
- 22.1
- PEG
- 1.87
- Price/book
- 8.14
- Price/sales
- 3.14
- EV/EBITDA
- 13.3
- EV/revenue
- 4.03
Profitability and growth
- Gross margin
- 40.6%
- Operating margin
- 19.0%
- Net margin
- 11.1%
- ROE
- 29.8%
- ROA
- 6.6%
- Revenue growth (year over year)
- 4.0%
- Earnings growth (year over year)
- 8.3%
Financial health
- Total cash
- $557M
- Total debt
- $23.36B
- Debt/equity
- 2.35
- Current ratio
- 0.91
- Quick ratio
- 0.80
Dividends
- Annual dividend per share
- $3.78
- Dividend yield
- 1.9%
- Payout ratio
- 50.1%
- Ex-dividend date
- September 11, 2026
Analysts and estimates
- Average price target
- $259.92
- Median price target
- $263.00
- High price target
- $277.00
- Low price target
- $220.00
- Analysts with a price target
- 25
- Consensus
- Buy
- Forward EPS
- $9.12
- EPS estimate, current year
- $8.14
Shares and trading
- Beta
- 0.43
- Average volume
- 2.02M
- Shares outstanding
- 399.72M
- Float
- 398.53M
- Institutional ownership
- 85.8%
- Insider ownership
- 0.3%
- Short interest (% of float)
- 1.5%
- Short ratio (days)
- 2.68