Waste Management, Inc.

WM · Industrials

$209.82
-0.60% today

What a holder would want to know before buying WM: where the price sits in its own history, how far it has fallen before and whether it recovered, and what the business behind it earns. All of it is arithmetic over free market data — no opinions, no recommendations.

Where the price sits
Low $196.77 · Nov 2025High $246.51 · Mar 2026

Today’s price is 6% above the lowest point of the past year and 15% below the highest.

Over the past year it was cheaper than today on 10% of days and more expensive on 90%. Over the last 10 years: cheaper on 80% of days.

7% below its average price of the last 200 trading days.

How bad does it get

Fell 20% or more once in 10 years. The deepest fall was 30%; the longest took 13 months to get back to its peak. Every one recovered.

Now 15% below the Mar 2026 peak.

Feb 2020
−30%back in 13 months
What you own

Waste Management, Inc. · Industrials · Waste Management · a large company worth $83.47B

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…

Is it making money?
2022
2023
2024
2025

revenue profit

Sales of $25.20B in 2025, with $2.71B of profit. Sales grew in 3 of the last 3 years.

Keeps about 11 cents of every dollar of sales as profit.

Is it healthy?
Cash
$557.00M
Debt
$23.36B
Free cash flow / yr
$2.35B

Would need about 9.9 years of free cash flow to repay all its debt.

Is it expensive?

You pay $30 for every $1 of last year’s profit, and $23 for every $1 of profit expected next year.

A high number means buyers expect growth; a low one means they expect little, or fear trouble. Large US companies have averaged roughly 15–20 over the decades.

Pays 1.80% a year in dividends at today’s price · next ex-dividend Sep 11.

What others are doing

28 analysts: 19 say buy, 9 hold, 0 sell. Their average 12-month target is $255.56 (range $220.00–$277.00).

Insiders made 0 purchases and 2 sales in the last 6 months. Executives routinely sell shares they were paid in; buying with their own money is the rarer signal.

Free data from Yahoo Finance, refreshed daily. This is evidence about the business and its price history, not a recommendation.

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