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WM Waste Management, Inc.

Industrials · Waste Management

4 · Weak Momentum 4.0 · Weak At risk 21y streak

226.26

-0.03%

About the company

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.

1.56%
93.16%
3.54
90.4B
59.54
3.80
223.63

52-week range

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Yield Growth Momentum Safety Value Health

Dividend deep dive

Waste Management, Inc. (WM) operates in the Industrials sector as a waste management company. Its current dividend yield is 1.48%, which sits within its 5-year historical range of 1.44% to 1.72%, and below the 5-year average of 1.57%. The company holds a dividend safety status of 'watch' and has a rating score of 6.0.

Dividend history

WM has a 21-year streak of increasing its dividend, qualifying it as a 'Contender' on the CCC list. Over the past three years, the dividend grew at an 8.27% CAGR, and at an 8.65% CAGR over five years. Annual dividends have risen consistently, from 1.50 USD in 2014 to 3.00 USD in 2024, with a projected 3.30 USD for 2025. This demonstrates a pattern of consistent annual dividend increases.

Dividend safety

The dividend payout ratio stands at 51.3%, indicating that roughly half of earnings are distributed as dividends. Leverage is elevated, with a debt-to-equity ratio of 228.408%.

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Price history

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Price

Dividend profile

Frequency
Quarterly
Growth (TTM)
+12.4%
CAGR 3y
+8.3%
+8.6%
21 years

(5-year)

Now 1.6%
1.4% avg 1.6% 1.7%

Payment calendar

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Dividend history

CAGR 3y +8.3% CAGR 5y +8.6% 21y streak
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Per-share dividend by year

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Debt & leverage

228.4%
0.93
0.80
Debt vs cash
Debt Cash
Total debt
22.9B USD
Total cash
158.0M USD
7.7B USD

Latest reported balance-sheet figures.

Held by 1 investor

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