Waste Connections, Inc.

WCN Industrials Waste Management

Waste Connections, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $9.5 billion, up 6.14% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+7.31%
EPS
+28.8%
Free cash flow
+2.74%
Total debt
+8.87%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

190.96 0.85 −0.44%
Market cap
$48.0B
P/E
42.7×
Fwd P/E
39.5×
Dividend yield
0.75%
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
3.11
Beneish M
−2.72
Dividend safety
79/100

Waste Connections, Inc. (WCN) Debt to equity

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Waste Connections, Inc.'s debt to equity at the end of the quarter to 30 September 2026 was 1.2×, up 0.1× from fiscal 2025 (1.1×). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 0.6× (fiscal 2017) to 1.1× (fiscal 2015); the current reading is higher than 91% of that period. That is above the Waste Management industry median of 0.4× and above the Industrials sector median of 0.3×.

Debt to equity, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
FY2025 1.1× 3.93%
FY2024 1.0× 16.49%
FY2023 0.9× (9.07%)
FY2022 1.0× 33.45%
FY2021 0.7× 5.36%
FY2020 0.7× 9.43%
FY2019 0.6× (2.16%)
FY2018 0.7× 3.30%
FY2017 0.6× (2.79%)
FY2016 0.6× (41.21%)

Quarterly newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
Sep 2026 1.2× 1.99%
Jun 2026 1.2× 3.83%
Mar 2026 1.1× 5.54%
Dec 2025 1.1× 0.01%
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 0.6× High 1.1×
Ten-year median 0.7×
Current reading's percentile 91

Debt to equity against peers

Company Debt to equity
ONT Onterris, Inc. compare 0.0×
OIO ESGL Holdings Limited compare 0.3×
NVRI Enviri Corporation compare 0.6×
CWST Casella Waste Systems, Inc. compare 0.9×
CLH Clean Harbors, Inc. compare 0.9×
GFL GFL Environmental Inc. compare 1.0×
RSG Republic Services, Inc. compare 1.1×
WCN Waste Connections, Inc. 1.2×
WM Waste Management, Inc. compare 2.4×
Waste Management industry median 0.4×
Industrials sector median 0.3×
Market median 0.1×

What Debt to equity is

Debt to Equity Ratio shows how much a company relies on borrowed money compared with the money its shareholders have in the business.

(Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt) ÷ Shareholders Equity (Total)

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