Waste Management…
USUSDWaste Management Inc (US:WM) — Environmental Services. Number of exchanges where the company shares trade: 4. On this page — price and chart, dividends, top holders and share count history.
About the company
- Website
- wm.com
- Investor relations
- investors.wm.com/
- Sector
- Industrials · Environmental Services
- Headquarters
- Houston, United States
- Management
- Employees
- 43 000
- Founded
- 1968
- IPO
- 1988-06-22
- Shares outstanding
- Free float
- 398.53 M
- Market cap
- 95.68 B USD
- Insiders
- 0.26%
- Institutions
- 85.78%
- Industry (SIC)
- Refuse Systems
- Legal form
- XTIQ
- ISIN
- US94106L1098
- LEI
- 549300YX8JIID70NFS41
- P/EP/E (Price / Earnings) — how many years of the company's profit you pay for a share. Calculated: current price ÷ net earnings per share over the last 12 months. Lower means cheaper relative to profit. Not calculated when the company has a loss (—).
- 31.1
- EPSEPS (Earnings Per Share) — the company's net profit over the last 12 months divided by the number of its shares, in the currency of this listing. A negative value (red) means a loss. P/E is the share price divided by EPS.
- 7.62 USD
- |P/B (price to book) — share price ÷ shareholders' equity per share from the latest balance sheet. Graham — as Benjamin Graham counted it: equity without goodwill, other intangible assets and preferred stock, that is tangible book value. He considered up to 1.5 acceptable for a defensive investor (green), or a product P/E × P/B up to 22.5. With negative tangible equity, Graham's P/B is not calculated.
- 9.57tangible equity is negative
- Payout ratioPayout ratio — what share of net income the company pays out as dividends. Calculated: dividends paid over the last 12 months ÷ net income for the same 12 months × 100%. Up to 60% — safe margin, 60–90% — borderline, over 90% — dividend at risk of a cut. «Loss» — the company pays without a profit.
- 48.0%
- FCFFCF (Free Cash Flow) — money left to the company after operating costs and investment in equipment; dividends are safest when paid from it. Calculated: operating cash flow − capital expenditure, over the last 12 months, in the reporting currency.
- 3.74 B USD
- Payout / FCFShare of free cash flow (FCF) the company paid out as dividends: dividends paid over 12 months ÷ FCF × 100%. Up to 60% — room to spare, 60–90% — borderline, over 90% — risky. Over 100% — paid more than it earned in free cash: the gap was covered by cash reserves, new borrowing or new shares, which cannot last long.
- 39%
- DebtDebt — all loans and bonds of the company per the latest report (short- and long-term), in the reporting currency. Below — how many years the company would need to repay net debt (debt minus cash) from its free cash flow: net debt ÷ FCF. Up to 3 years — good, 3–6 — moderate, over 6 — high. «Net cash» — net debt is negative.
- 23.4 B USD6.2 y of FCF
- Dividend streakDividend streak — how many years in a row the company has paid dividends without a break longer than 18 months. Counted from the earliest payment of the unbroken chain until today. «+» — data history starts in 1970, so the real streak may be longer. The longer the streak, the likelier the company keeps paying through crises.
- 28 y
- Earnings, FCF and dividends paid — for the 12 months to 30.09.2026 (the company's latest report).
- Net income
- NAVNAV — net asset value by the balance sheet: the company's assets minus its liabilities, the share of the company's shareholders (without other owners' stakes in its subsidiaries). Shown per share, with P/NAV — how many times the share price exceeds NAV per share (below 1 — the share costs less than its net assets on the balance sheet). Click to see what NAV is made of and its history.
Description
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.
Exchanges and tickers
| Exchange | Ticker | Currency | Price | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| common stock | ||||
| US USA Stocks | WM primary | USD | 237.32 +0.30% | common stock |
| LSE London Stock Exchange | 0LTG IOB | USD | 204.92 +0.00% | common stock |
| VI Vienna Stock Exchange | WM secondary | EUR | 210.6 -1.45% | common stock |
| XETRA Xetra | UWS secondary | EUR | 216.1 +0.98% | common stock |
| depositary receipt | ||||
| SA B3 Sao Paulo | W1MC34 | BRL | 66.36 | depositary receipt |
| TO Toronto Stock Exchange | WAST | CAD | — | depositary receipt |
Dividends
Waste Management Inc (WM) pays dividends quarterly. Per year (12 months up to and including the latest announced payment): 3.66 USD per share (payments: 4). That is about 1.54% of the current share price. Based on payment history, the next ex-dividend date is expected around 11.12.2026. Uninterrupted dividend history: 28 years.
| Ex-date | Payment | Amount | % | Type | Ticker |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-11 | 2026-09-25 | 0.9450 USD | 0.4/1.7 % | quarterly | US:WM |
| 2026-06-05 | 2026-06-18 | 0.9450 USD | 0.4/1.6 % | quarterly | US:WM |
| 2026-03-13 | 2026-03-27 | 0.9450 USD | 0.4/1.4 % | quarterly | US:WM |
| 2025-12-05 | 2025-12-19 | 0.8250 USD | 0.4/1.5 % | quarterly | US:WM |
| 2025-09-12 | 2025-09-26 | 0.8250 USD | 0.4/1.5 % | quarterly | US:WM |
| 2025-06-06 | 2025-06-20 | 0.8250 USD | 0.3/1.3 % | quarterly | US:WM |
| 2025-03-14 | 2025-03-28 | 0.8250 USD | 0.4/1.4 % | quarterly | US:WM |
| 2024-12-06 | 2024-12-20 | 0.7500 USD | 0.3/1.3 % | quarterly | US:WM |
| 2024-09-13 | 2024-09-27 | 0.7500 USD | 0.3/1.2 % | quarterly | US:WM |
| 2024-06-07 | 2024-06-21 | 0.7500 USD | 0.3/≈1.3 % | quarterly | US:WM |
| 2024-03-14 | 2024-03-28 | 0.7500 USD | 0.3/≈1.3 % | quarterly | US:WM |
| 2023-11-30 | 2023-12-15 | 0.7000 USD | 0.3/≈1.2 % | quarterly | US:WM |
Top holders
| Holder | Stake | Shares | Report date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blackrock Inc. | 7.69% | 30.73 M | 2026-06-30 |
| Gates Foundation Trust | 6.68% | 26.72 M | 2026-06-30 |
| Vanguard Capital Managem… | 6.3% | 25.18 M | 2026-06-30 |
| State Street Corporation | 4.51% | 18.01 M | 2026-06-30 |
| VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Van… | 3.19% | 12.75 M | 2026-06-30 |
| Capital Research Global… | 2.61% | 10.44 M | 2026-06-30 |
| Vanguard Portfolio Manag… | 2.53% | 10.12 M | 2026-06-30 |
| VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Van… | 2.39% | 9.57 M | 2026-06-30 |
| Geode Capital Management… | 2.27% | 9.07 M | 2026-06-30 |
| Ameriprise Financial, In… | 1.77% | 7.09 M | 2026-06-30 |
| Morgan Stanley | 1.65% | 6.58 M | 2026-06-30 |
| iShares Trust-iShares Co… | 1.23% | 4.92 M | 2026-08-31 |
| Parnassus Investments, L… | 1.2% | 4.79 M | 2026-06-30 |
| Fidelity Concord Street… | 1.2% | 4.78 M | 2026-07-31 |
| SPDR S&P 500 ETF TRUST-S… | 1.13% | 4.53 M | 2026-08-31 |
| AMERICAN MUTUAL FUND | 1.06% | 4.26 M | 2026-07-31 |
| VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Van… | 0.96% | 3.82 M | 2026-06-30 |
| Parnassus Income Funds-P… | 0.9% | 3.59 M | 2026-06-30 |
| Amcap Fund | 0.64% | 2.55 M | 2026-06-30 |
| Columbia Funds Series Tr… | 0.54% | 2.17 M | 2026-05-31 |
| FISH JAMES C JR (Chief E… | ≈0.08% | 320 402 | 2026-02-10 |
| MORRIS JOHN J JR. (Presi… | ≈0.03% | 102 368 | 2026-03-09 |
| RANKIN DEVINA A (Chief F… | ≈0.02% | 83 934 | 2025-05-27 |
| HEMMER TARA J (Chief Ope… | ≈0.02% | 81 461 | 2026-05-20 |
| BOETTCHER CHARLES C (Off… | ≈0.01% | 56 159 | 2026-01-30 |
| WATSON MICHAEL J. (Offic… | ≈0.01% | 46 758 | 2026-03-02 |
| GLUSKI ANDRES RICARDO (D… | ≈0% | 18 383 | 2026-05-15 |
| CARRASCO RAFAEL (Officer… | ≈0% | 15 539 | 2026-06-05 |
| HOLT VICTORIA M (Directo… | — | — | 2026-05-15 |
| MAZZARELLA KATHLEEN M. (… | — | — | 2026-05-15 |
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