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

188.22 3.44 −1.79%
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) Shares outstanding

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Waste Connections, Inc.'s shares outstanding at the end of fiscal 2025 was $258.0M, unchanged from fiscal 2024. At the end of the quarter to 30 September 2026 it was $251.9M. Over the past ten years it has ranged from $185.2M (fiscal 2015) to $264.5M (fiscal 2019); the current reading is higher than 27% of that period. Waste Connections, Inc. ranks 4th of 18 Waste Management companies by shares outstanding.

Shares outstanding, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Shares outstanding Change
FY2025 $258.0M (0.26%)
FY2024 $258.7M 0.20%
FY2023 $258.1M 0.04%
FY2022 $258.0M (1.41%)
FY2021 $261.7M (0.74%)
FY2020 $263.7M (0.32%)
FY2019 $264.5M 0.05%
FY2018 $264.4M 0.04%
FY2017 $264.3M 14.38%
FY2016 $231.1M 24.75%

Quarterly newest first

Period Shares outstanding Change
Sep 2026 $251.9M (0.78%)
Jun 2026 $253.9M (0.79%)
Mar 2026 $255.9M (0.82%)
Dec 2025 $258.0M 0.15%
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low $185.2M High $264.5M
Ten-year median $258.7M
Current reading's percentile 27

Shares outstanding against peers

What Shares outstanding is

Shares (Diluted, Weighted) tells an investor how many shares a company’s earnings are spread across once potential new shares are counted.

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