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

WM POWR Grades

• WM scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 95.5% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for WM is in Quality, which has been heading up over the past 179 days.
• WM ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 46th percentile.

WM Stock Summary

• With a market capitalization of $66,220,514,900, WASTE MANAGEMENT INC has a greater market value than 97.13% of US stocks.
• WASTE MANAGEMENT INC's stock had its IPO on September 30, 1991, making it an older stock than 84.31% of US equities in our set.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, WM is more volatile than only 7.42% of stocks we're observing.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to WASTE MANAGEMENT INC, a group of peers worth examining would be RSG, MPC, CP, CB, and ENB.
• Visit WM's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.wm.com.

WM Valuation Summary

• WM's price/sales ratio is 3.6; this is 227.27% higher than that of the median Industrials stock.
• WM's price/earnings ratio has moved up 4.5 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for WM.

WM Growth Metrics

The 3 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 1.71%.
• Its 5 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 42.47%.
• The 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 42.47%.

Over the past 15 months, WM's revenue has gone up $3,430,000,000.

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
2022-06-30	19,031	4,480	2,144
2022-03-31	18,480	4,476	1,908
2021-12-31	17,931	4,338	1,816
2021-09-30	17,320	4,100	1,748
2021-06-30	16,516	3,945	1,600
2021-03-31	15,601	3,758	1,556

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 91.08% of graded US stocks.
• WM's asset turnover comes in at 0.596 -- 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.