Waste Connections Inc. (WCN): Price and Financial Metrics

WCN POWR Grades

• WCN scores best on the Sentiment dimension, with a Sentiment rank ahead of 95.68% of US stocks.
• WCN's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• WCN's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 25.83% of US stocks).

WCN Stock Summary

• WCN has a market capitalization of $35,596,815,930 -- more than approximately 92.32% of US stocks.
• WCN's current price/earnings ratio is 57.6, which is higher than 87.42% of US stocks with positive earnings.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, WCN is more volatile than only 5.55% of stocks we're observing.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Waste Connections Inc, a group of peers worth examining would be NDAQ, RSG, DLR, IQV, and MOS.
• Visit WCN's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.wasteconnections.com.

WCN Valuation Summary

• WCN's EV/EBIT ratio is 39.6; this is 85.05% higher than that of the median Industrials stock.
• Over the past 243 months, WCN's price/sales ratio has gone up 3.3.
• WCN's EV/EBIT ratio has moved up 23.2 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for WCN.

WCN Growth Metrics

Its 4 year revenue growth rate is now at 158.55%.
• The 3 year revenue growth rate now stands at 136.49%.
• Its year over year revenue growth rate is now at -0.13%.

WCN's revenue has moved up $1,629,426,000 over the prior 52 months.

The table below shows WCN's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	6,151.361	1,698.229	618.047
2021-09-30	5,925.292	1,492.909	582.402
2021-06-30	5,717.676	1,503.814	626.07
2021-03-31	5,489.527	1,439.331	221.951
2020-12-31	5,445.99	1,408.521	204.677
2020-09-30	5,409.698	1,540.69	207.274

WCN's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• WCN has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 77.22% of graded US stocks.
• WCN's asset turnover comes in at 0.42 -- ranking 13th of 14 Almost Nothing stocks.
• CLH, CVA, and AES are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with WCN.

The table below shows WCN's key quality metrics over time.