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) Free cash flow margin

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Waste Connections, Inc.'s free cash flow margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 11.9%, down 1.1 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (13.0%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 13.0% (fiscal 2025) to 17.7% (fiscal 2018) — the current reading is the lowest in ten years. That is above the Waste Management industry median of 0.00% and above the Industrials sector median of 2.06%.

Free cash flow margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Free cash flow margin Change (points)
FY2025 13.0% (0.25)
FY2024 13.2% (2.02)
FY2023 15.3% (0.55)
FY2022 15.8% (0.39)
FY2021 16.2% 2.19
FY2020 14.0% (2.28)
FY2019 16.3% (1.39)
FY2018 17.7% 1.78
FY2017 15.9% 2.42
FY2016 13.5% (2.63)

Against its own ten years

Low 13.0% High 17.7%
Ten-year median 15.8%
Current reading's percentile 9

Free cash flow margin against peers

Company Free cash flow margin
RSG Republic Services, Inc. compare 14.9%
WM Waste Management, Inc. compare 14.4%
WCN Waste Connections, Inc. 11.9%
ONT Onterris, Inc. compare 11.6%
CLH Clean Harbors, Inc. compare 7.78%
CWST Casella Waste Systems, Inc. compare 5.45%
GFL GFL Environmental Inc. compare 4.15%
OIO ESGL Holdings Limited compare 0.00%
NVRI Enviri Corporation compare −16.2%
Waste Management industry median 0.00%
Industrials sector median 2.06%
Market median 0.00%

What Free cash flow margin is

Free Cash Flow Margin tells an investor how much of each sale turns into cash the company keeps after paying for investment in its assets.

(Operating Cash Flow + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) + Intangible Assets Change (Net)) ÷ Revenue

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