Waste Management, Inc. (WM): Price and Financial Metrics

WM POWR Grades

• Quality is the dimension where WM ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 91.51% of US stocks.
• WM's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving down over the last 52 weeks.
• WM's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 40.37% of US stocks).

WM Stock Summary

• Waste Management Inc's market capitalization of $66,887,361,189 is ahead of 95.99% of US-listed equities.
• WM's one year PEG ratio, measuring expected growth in earnings next year relative to current common stock price is 3,266.15 -- higher than 98.98% of US-listed equities with positive expected earnings growth.
• Waste Management Inc's stock had its IPO on September 30, 1991, making it an older stock than 82.71% of US equities in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Waste Management Inc are AMOV, IQV, RSG, CB, and FDX.
• WM's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Waste Management Inc's official web site, go to www.wm.com.

WM Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Industrials stock, WM's price/sales ratio is 129.41% higher, now standing at 3.9.
• Over the past 243 months, WM's price/sales ratio has gone up 2.3.
• Over the past 243 months, WM's price/earnings ratio has gone down 77.4.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for WM.

WM Growth Metrics

• Its year over year price growth rate is now at 39.52%.
• The 2 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 14.72%.
• Its 2 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at -17.73%.

WM's revenue has moved up $1,028,000,000 over the prior 15 months.

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

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-06-30	16,516	3,945	1,600
2021-03-31	15,601	3,758	1,556
2020-12-31	15,218	3,403	1,496
2020-09-30	14,997	3,672	1,505
2020-06-30	15,103	3,595	1,610
2020-03-31	15,488	3,749	1,684

WM'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.

• WM has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 91.71% of graded US stocks.
• WM's asset turnover comes in at 0.589 -- ranking 8th of 14 Almost Nothing stocks.
• HCCI, CWST, and PESI are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with WM.

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