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Waste Management, Inc.

Waste Management, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $25.2 billion, up 14.2% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue: +6.25%
EPS: +37.1%
Free cash flow: +20.5%
Total debt: +0.03%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

240.83 2.34 +0.98%

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Market cap: $95.9B
P/E: 31.5×
Fwd P/E: 29.5×
Dividend yield: 1.52%
F-score: 6/9
Altman Z: 2.85
Beneish M: −2.76
Dividend safety: 77/100

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Waste Management, Inc. (WM) Debt to equity

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Waste Management, Inc.'s debt to equity at the end of the quarter to 30 September 2026 was 2.4×, up 0.1× from fiscal 2025 (2.3×). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 1.6× (fiscal 2017) to 2.9× (fiscal 2024); the current reading is higher than 82% of that period. That is above the Waste Management industry median of 0.4× and above the Industrials sector median of 0.3×.

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Period	Debt to equity	Change
FY2025	2.3×	(20.82%)
FY2024	2.9×	23.04%
FY2023	2.4×	7.81%
FY2022	2.2×	16.05%
FY2021	1.9×	1.53%
FY2020	1.9×	(2.96%)
FY2019	1.9×	19.51%
FY2018	1.6×	1.70%
FY2017	1.6×	(10.24%)
FY2016	1.8×	5.19%

Period	Debt to equity	Change
Sep 2026	2.4×	0.65%
Jun 2026	2.4×	3.02%
Mar 2026	2.3×	(0.38%)
Dec 2025	2.3×	(6.57%)
43 more quarters	Free account

Against its own ten years

Low 1.6× High 2.9×

Ten-year median 1.9×

Current reading's percentile 82

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. compare	1.2×
WM Waste Management, Inc.	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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