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WCN - Waste Connections, Inc.

Industrials

Price History

About

Industry

Waste Management

Employees

24,214

Headquarters

Canada


Company Overview

Waste Connections, Inc. provides non-hazardous waste collection, transfer, and disposal services in the United States and Canada. It offers collection services to residential, commercial, municipal, industrial, and exploration and production (E&P) customers; landfill disposal services; and recycling services for various recyclable materials, including compost, cardboard, mixed paper, plastic containers, glass bottles, and ferrous and aluminum metals. The company owns and operates transfer stations that receive, compact, and/or load waste to be transported to landfills or treatment facilities through truck, rail, or barge; develops, owns, and operates projects or the beneficial reuse of landfill gas through landfill network; and intermodal services for the movement of cargo and solid waste containers. In addition, it provides E&P waste treatment, recovery, and disposal services for waste created through the initial drilling and completion of an oil or natural gas well, such as drilling fluids, drill cuttings, completion fluids, and flowback water; production wastes and produced water during a well's operating life; contaminated soils that require treatment during site reclamation; and substances, which require clean-up after a spill, reserve pit clean-up, or pipeline rupture. Waste Connections, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is based in Woodbridge, Canada.

Price

$162.44

52-Week Range

$155 $202

Dividend Yield

0.82%

Dividend Score

D

Dividend

Yield 0.82%
Annual $1.33
Payout 31%
5Y Avg 0.68%

Valuation

P/E (TTM) 38.9
Fwd P/E 26.3
P/B 5.04
PEG 1.22

Profitability

Profit Margin 11.4%
Op Margin 18.0%
ROE 13.4%
ROA 5.4%

Financial Health

Current Ratio 0.62
Quick Ratio 0.53
Debt/Equity 111%

Cash Flow

Free CF $1.2B
Op CF $2.4B
Total Cash $46M

Analyst Consensus

Strong Buy

25 analysts

Target: $199 $156 - $225
+22.4% implied

Dividend Growth

Most Recent Annual Growth

-19.23%

3-Year Avg Growth

1.10%

5-Year Avg Growth

5.26%

Annual Dividends

Year-over-Year Growth

Recent Dividend History

Ex-Dividend Date Amount
Feb 25, 2026 $0.3500
Aug 06, 2025 $0.3150
May 07, 2025 $0.3150
Feb 27, 2025 $0.3150
Nov 07, 2024 $0.3150
Aug 07, 2024 $0.2850
May 07, 2024 $0.2850
Feb 27, 2024 $0.2850
Nov 07, 2023 $0.2850
Aug 15, 2023 $0.2550
May 09, 2023 $0.2550
Feb 28, 2023 $0.2550
Nov 15, 2022 $0.2550
Aug 17, 2022 $0.2300
May 17, 2022 $0.2300
Mar 01, 2022 $0.2300
Nov 08, 2021 $0.2300
Aug 17, 2021 $0.2050
May 11, 2021 $0.2050
Mar 02, 2021 $0.2050

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