WCN Waste Connectionsdata gap · 92% coverage
Industrials · Environmental & Facilities Services · close $167.90 (2026-10-16) · latest quarter in EDGAR: 2026-06-30
Waste Connections (WCN) has a ThetaGrade House Rating of 44/100 (grade D), ranking #57 of 202 in Industrials. Its strongest pillars are profitability (62) and growth (55); its weakest is valuation (20). Data gap: 2 factors without usable data, so 92% of the method weight is covered. TTM revenue growth is 5.7% and operating margin 17.0%.
Data as of .
Data gap
No usable data for: Consensus score (1–5), 90-day net rating shift. Data gap: no usable data for this factor, so it is left out and its weight is shared among the factors that do have data (no value is imputed). 92% of the full method weight is backed by data.
Analyst sentiment
weight 7.5% · no data · —| Consensus score (1–5) (0.0%)data gap | derived | — |
| 90-day net rating shift (0.0%)data gap | derived | — |
Growth
weight 30.83% (→33.3%) · 55| Revenue growth YoY (TTM) (13.3%) | 5.7% | 35 |
| EPS growth YoY (TTM) (13.3%) | 67.3% | 85 |
| Revenue acceleration (6.7%) | 0.0% | 36 |
Profitability
weight 18.5% (→20.0%) · 62| Operating margin (10.7%) | 17.0% | 63 |
| 4Q gross-margin change (9.3%) | 0.5% | 60 |
Balance sheet
weight 18.5% (→20.0%) · 21| Net debt / EBITDA (10.7%) | 2.36× | 26 |
| Current ratio (5.3%) | 0.66 | 5 |
| Interest coverage (4.0%) | 4.97× | 30 |
Cash flow
weight 12.33% (→13.3%) · 48| FCF margin (6.7%) | 13.0% | 61 |
| FCF yield (6.7%) | 2.9% | 35 |
Valuation
weight 12.33% (→13.3%) · 20| P/E (inverted) (6.7%) | 40.46× | 18 |
| EV/Sales (inverted) (6.7%) | 5.03× | 21 |
Technicals (EOD)
| RSI(14) | 71.2 |
| EMA 9 / 21 | 159.03 / 157.72 · crossed up 2d ago |
| 200-day SMA | 162.99 |
| Volume vs 20d avg | 1.29× |
| 20-day return | 8.2% |
Exit-rule monitor
- EXITRating break: House Rating below 60
Data source per metric (SEC XBRL tag or derivation): Revenue: RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax · Gross profit: Revenue − CostOfGoodsAndServicesSold · Operating income: OperatingIncomeLoss · Interest expense: InterestExpenseNonoperating · D&A: DepreciationDepletionAndAmortization · EPS: EarningsPerShareDiluted · Market cap: SEC shares (dei EntityCommonStockSharesOutstanding (cover page)) × EOD close · P/E: EOD close ÷ SEC TTM EPS (EarningsPerShareDiluted).
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FAQ
- What is WCN's House Rating?
- WCN scores 44 out of 100 (grade D) as of 2026-10-16, ranking #57 of 202 Industrials stocks we cover.
- What do analysts say about WCN?
- We do not have enough analyst-sentiment data to score this stock.
- When does WCN report earnings next?
- WCN's next earnings report is estimated for about 2026-10-20 (window 2026-10-17 to 2026-10-23), based on its past SEC 8-K earnings filings. This is an estimate, not a company-confirmed date.
- Is WCN a buy?
- ThetaGrade does not give personal advice. The House Rating is an educational, rules-based summary of public data; see the methodology for how it is built.
Sources: SEC EDGAR filings (fetched 2026-10-18), Finnhub recommendation trends, Massive EOD prices. Scores are sector percentiles; a factor without usable data is a data gap: it is left out and the remaining weights are renormalized (nothing is imputed). Educational only. Methodology