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

WM POWR Grades

• WM scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 92.48% of US stocks.
• WM's strongest trending metric is Momentum; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• WM ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 29th percentile.

WM Stock Summary

• WM has a market capitalization of $65,401,054,764 -- more than approximately 95.87% of US stocks.
• With a one year PEG ratio of 211.34, Waste Management Inc is expected to have a higher PEG ratio (a measure of how expensive a stock is relative to its expected earnings growth) than 88.4% of US stocks.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, WM is more volatile than only 8.76% of stocks we're observing.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Waste Management Inc are RSG, AON, NTR, FDX, and AMOV.
• 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 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 47.72%.
• Its year over year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -73.68%.
• Its year over year revenue growth rate is now at 0.73%.

Over the past 70 months, WM's revenue has gone up $4,834,000,000.

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
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
2020-12-31	15,218	3,403	1,496
2020-09-30	14,997	3,672	1,505

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.