Loading company financials…
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. · Commercial Services & Supplies · CIK 0000823768
$239.10
+4.15% · live
Updated
$96.33B market value
From WASTE MANAGEMENT INC's FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 9, 2026 · read the filing
WASTE MANAGEMENT handles waste and environmental services. It took in $25.20B last year, which makes it a large company. Of every dollar it sells, about 11 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by profitability and accounting, with growth and debt worth watching.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Recent open-market selling by Carroll John A., not under a pre-arranged plan.
$300.2K sold in the last 120 days · Read the filing
These are things the company filed or that a published model flagged — not predictions, and not a reason on their own to buy or sell anything.
Financial health
Strong finances across the board.
From WASTE MANAGEMENT INC's FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Cash
$414.0M → $201.0M
Gross profit
$8.68B → $10.19B
Free cash flow
$2.16B → $2.82B
Revenue
$22.06B → $25.20B
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 9, 2026
Deteriorated: -51.4%
$414.0M to $201.0MCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: +17.4%
$8.68B to $10.19BSignificant
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
How the latest move compares (quote live), and what was published around it
WM rose 4.15% on the latest quote. The average Utilities company tracked here moved +1.66%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 2.5 points above its sector and 5.2 points above the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
The growth rate someone buying today is paying for, against what the company has delivered
At today's price, the market is paying for free cash flow to grow by about 16% a year for the next 10 years. Over the last 10 years it grew by about 8% a year.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 11 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $2.71B last year.
Slowly. Sales grew 14.2% last year.
Manageable, but notable. Clearing its debt would take about 3.8 years of cash flow. For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.28 in assets.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 49 cents of every dollar of profit and keeps the rest, which leaves the payment comfortably covered. It paid out 22% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 12 years.
GoodNext payment expected around , projected from how regularly it has paid before rather than from a date the company has announced.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $2.71B and generated $6.04B of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Feb 9, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Feb 19, 2025Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 13, 2024Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Feb 7, 2023Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 15, 2022Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $25.20B | $22.06B | $20.43B | $19.70B | $17.93B | +14.2% |
| Cost of revenue | $15.01B | $13.38B | $12.61B | $12.29B | $11.11B | +12.2% |
| Gross profit | $10.19B† | $8.68B† | $7.82B† | $7.40B† | $6.82B† | +17.4% |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 40.4% | 39.3% | 38.3% | 37.6% | 38.0% | +1.1 pts |
| Selling, general and administrative | $2.72B | $2.26B | $1.93B | $1.94B | $1.86B | +20.2% |
| Operating income | $4.31B | $4.06B | $3.58B | $3.37B | $2.96B | +6.0% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 17.1% | 18.4% | 17.5% | 17.1% | 16.5% | −1.3 pts |
| Income before tax | $3.43B | $3.46B | $3.02B | $2.92B | $2.35B | −0.9% |
| Net income | $2.71B | $2.75B | $2.30B | $2.24B | $1.82B | −1.4% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 10.7% | 12.4% | 11.3% | 11.4% | 10.1% | −1.7 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $6.72 | $6.84 | $5.74 | $5.49 | $4.36 | −1.7% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
This company's latest filing beside its peers' stored scores
| Company | Health | F-Score | Revenue growth | Profit margin | P/E | Debt to equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WMWASTE MANAGEMENT INC · this page | 8.0/10 | 8/9 | 14.2% | 10.7% |
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 356 shares at $220.13 ($78.4K)
Holds 4,480 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 1,365 shares at $219.90 ($300.2K)
Holds 3,509 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Had a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Cash +26.6% · Operating income +8.9% · Profit +8.1% — against Q2 FY2025
Read the filingWrite down why you are following WASTE MANAGEMENT INC, what has to go right and what would change your mind, then see each new annual report measured against it. Sign in to start one.
Go deeper
Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
The 577 subsidiaries named in its 10-K. A filer lists the significant ones and may leave the rest out, so this is the floor rather than the full count.
Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from WM's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Feb 9, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
4 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. All four had enough reported figures. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 9 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 8.0 | 8/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 9, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 8.0 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 8.0 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 8.0 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 7, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 9.0 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 15, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 6.0 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 22, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
8 of 9 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's.
2.06
In the grey zone
For this model, above 2.6 is safe and below 1.1 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
-2.80
Below the threshold — nothing unusual flagged
Scores above -1.78 are the ones the model associates with earnings manipulation.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Improved: +30.4%
$2.16B to $2.82BSignificant
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
Improved: +14.2%
$22.06B to $25.20BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +6.0%
$4.06B to $4.31BNotable
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: +1.1 pts
39.3% to 40.4%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Deteriorated: −1.3 pts
18.4% to 17.1%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Deteriorated: −1.7 pts
12.4% to 10.7%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Changed: +10.2%
$1.21B to $1.33BNotable
Why it matters: Cash handed to shareholders. A rise can be a higher dividend or simply more shares, and a cut is a decision the company explains in its own filing — neither is rated here.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Jul 29, 2026 — read it.
Improved: +26.6%
$440.0M to $557.0MSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: +8.9%
$1.15B to $1.25BNotable
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: +8.1%
$726.0M to $785.0MNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +8.8%
$1.80 to $1.96Notable
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Q2 FY2026 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Jul 29, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Improved: +252.5%
$158.0M to $557.0MCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: +7.3%
$6.23B to $6.68BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +7.7%
$2.53B to $2.73BNotable
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Improved: +12.6%
$1.11B to $1.25BNotable
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: +8.6%
$723.0M to $785.0MNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +9.2%
$1.80 to $1.96Notable
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
5 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
These coincide with the move in time. None is presented as its cause: a price can move on news that names no company, on the wider market, or on trading that no document records.
Filter by minute, hour, day or week — or compare against peers
Loading price history…
Discounted at 8%–10% a year, with growth settling to 2.5% after 10 years. Those rates are ordinary choices, not measurements: across that range the assumed growth works out between 13% and 18%. This describes what the price implies — it is not a forecast, and not a view on whether the price is right.
Opinions from 38 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 38 analysts publishing on this company, 12 say strong buy, 16 say buy and 10 say hold. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 1.9% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
The trailing P/E is 34.0x — a high multiple relative to the current trailing profit.
Nothing unusual. Its accounting patterns look like those of companies that report earnings straightforwardly.
| 35.57x |
| 3.59x |
| RSGREPUBLIC SERVICES, INC. | 8.0/10 | 7/9 | 3.5% | 12.9% | 35.31x | 1.87x |
|---|
| Median of peers | 8.0/10 | — | 3.5% | 12.9% | 35.31x | 1.87x |
|---|
Peers come from the company's industry classification. A difference describes the companies; it does not rank them.
Gifted shares — 4,874 shares
Holds 4,109 shares after this filing.
Gifted shares — 4,874 shares
Holds 4,874 shares after this filing.
Gifted shares — 5,357 shares
Holds 3,137 shares after this filing.
Gifted shares — 5,357 shares
Holds 5,357 shares after this filing.
Notice filed ahead of a planned sale — the sale itself has not necessarily happened yet.
Filed notice to sell 1,365 shares ($300.2K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Dividend Reinvestment.
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Published results
Held a shareholder vote
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Operating margin +1.0 pts · Free cash flow +125.7% · Cash -26.9% — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingSigned a material agreement
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Revenue +14.2% · Operating margin −1.3 pts · Cash -51.4% — against FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingSuspended trading in its employee benefit plans
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Revenue +14.9% · Operating margin −4.6 pts · Long-term debt +40.7% — against Q3 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2025
Revenue +19.0% · Profit margin −1.3 pts · Cash +155.8% — against Q2 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingThe first 40 of 577. The rest are in the exhibit.
Source: Exhibit 21 of the 10-K filed 2026-02-09. These are legal entities, not brands or acquisitions — a company that bought a business may hold it inside an entity named here, or inside one small enough that the rule does not require naming it at all.
Coverage from the last 30 days
What Rollins (ROL) Said on Its Q3 Earnings Call
Yahoo ·
WM Is Set to Report Q3 Earnings: What's in Store for Investors?
Yahoo ·
Ahead of Waste Management (WM) Q3 Earnings: Get Ready With Wall Street Estimates for Key Metrics
Yahoo ·
Clean Harbors (CLH) Earnings Expected to Grow: What to Know Ahead of Next Week's Release
Yahoo ·
Waste Management (WM) Beats Stock Market Upswing: What Investors Need to Know
Yahoo ·
Waste Management (WM): Buy, Sell, or Hold Post Q2 Earnings?
Yahoo ·
Waste Management: Turn America's Trash Into Your Treasure
SeekingAlpha ·
Waste Management (WM) Reports Next Week: Wall Street Expects Earnings Growth
Yahoo ·
The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights Abbott Laboratories, Johnson & Johnson, Stryker, Waste Management and Republic Services
Yahoo ·
Waste Management (WM) Has a Long Runway. Is the Stock Worth Buying?
Yahoo ·
When the Stock Market Gets Dangerous, These 6 Investments Have a History of Holding Up
Yahoo ·
The Stocks That Will Get Investors Home Safe When Tech Cracks
Yahoo ·
Primary sources and further research