Waste Management, Inc. (WM) Stock

About Waste Management, Inc.

Waste Management, Inc. is led by CEO James C. Fish Jr., employs 61,700 people, headquartered in Houston, US, publicly traded since 1988.

Waste Management, Inc. (WM) stock trades at $210.10 with a market capitalization of $83.98B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 29.17, price-to-book of 8.38, price-to-sales of 3.22. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $194.11 and $248.13, and currently trades 15.3% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 1.83%.

On profitability, Waste Management, Inc. generates a return on equity (ROE) of 28.92% — well above the market average, a sign of a high-quality business, return on capital employed of 11.75%, an operating margin of 18.28%, a net profit margin of 11.12%.

In its most recent fiscal year, Waste Management, Inc. reported annual revenue of $25.2B, net profit of $2.7B, revenue has compounded at 10.6% a year over the last five years, profit at 12.6% a year. Profit growing faster than revenue points to expanding margins.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.35 — a leveraged balance sheet worth monitoring, a current ratio of 0.93, total assets of $45.8B, $201.0M in cash and equivalents.

WM has a beta of 0.43 (less volatile than the overall market).