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) Price to free cash flow

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As of 5 November 2026, Waste Connections, Inc. (WCN) trades at a price to free cash flow of 40.5×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 11.7× (January 2015) to 115× (August 2016); the current reading is higher than 90% of that period. That is above the Waste Management industry median of 28.9× and above the Industrials sector median of 19.6×.

Price to free cash flow, daily

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Annual newest first

Period Price to free cash flow Change
FY2025 36.7× (2.11%)
FY2024 37.5× 19.89%
FY2023 31.3× 5.18%
FY2022 29.7× (16.76%)
FY2021 35.7× 0.93%
FY2020 35.4× 29.70%
FY2019 27.3× 21.29%
FY2018 22.5× (10.30%)
FY2017 25.1× (5.71%)
FY2016 26.6× 48.84%

Quarterly newest first

Period Price to free cash flow Change
Sep 2026 32.7× (9.24%)
Jun 2026 36.0× (0.20%)
Mar 2026 36.1× (1.75%)
Dec 2025 36.7× 1.20%
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 11.7× High 115×
Ten-year median 31.4×
Current reading's percentile 90

Price to free cash flow against peers

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WM Waste Management, Inc. compare 25.7×
CLH Clean Harbors, Inc. compare 28.9×
RSG Republic Services, Inc. compare 29.5×
WCN Waste Connections, Inc. 40.5×
CWST Casella Waste Systems, Inc. compare 60.0×
GFL GFL Environmental Inc. compare 79.9×
Waste Management industry median 28.9×
Industrials sector median 19.6×
Market median 14.1×

What Price to free cash flow is

Price to Free Cash Flow Ratio shows how much investors pay for each dollar of cash a company generates after its capital spending.

Stock Price ÷ ((Operating Cash Flow (TTM) + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) (TTM) + Intangible Assets Change (Net) (TTM)) ÷ (Shares (Basic, Weighted) (latest quarter)))

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