WM Waste Management
Industrials · Environmental & Facilities Services · close $226.86 (2026-10-16) · latest quarter in EDGAR: 2026-06-30
Waste Management (WM) has a ThetaGrade House Rating of 48/100 (grade D), ranking #39 of 202 in Industrials. Its strongest pillars are profitability (66) and balance sheet (51); its weakest is growth (39). TTM revenue growth is 7.2% and operating margin 17.6%.
Data as of .
Analyst sentiment
weight 7.5% · 50| Consensus score (1–5) (3.8%) | derived | 71 |
| 90-day net rating shift (3.8%) | derived | 32 |
Growth
weight 30.83% · 39| Revenue growth YoY (TTM) (12.3%) | 7.2% | 43 |
| EPS growth YoY (TTM) (12.3%) | 4.6% | 34 |
| Revenue acceleration (6.2%) | 0.5% | 42 |
Profitability
weight 18.5% · 66| Operating margin (9.9%) | 17.6% | 68 |
| 4Q gross-margin change (8.6%) | 0.6% | 63 |
Balance sheet
weight 18.5% · 51| Net debt / EBITDA (9.9%) | -0.05× | 80 |
| Current ratio (4.9%) | 0.91 | 11 |
| Interest coverage (3.7%) | 4.87× | 27 |
Cash flow
weight 12.33% · 46| FCF margin (6.2%) | 11.2% | 52 |
| FCF yield (6.2%) | 3.1% | 40 |
Valuation
weight 12.33% · 40| P/E (inverted) (6.2%) | 32.13× | 38 |
| EV/Sales (inverted) (6.2%) | 3.52× | 41 |
Technicals (EOD)
| RSI(14) | 72.8 |
| EMA 9 / 21 | 215.98 / 213.20 · crossed up 2d ago |
| 200-day SMA | 224.50 |
| Volume vs 20d avg | 1.11× |
| 20-day return | 6.3% |
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: InterestPaidNet · 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 WM's House Rating?
- WM scores 48 out of 100 (grade D) as of 2026-10-16, ranking #39 of 202 Industrials stocks we cover.
- What do analysts say about WM?
- ThetaGrade's analyst-sentiment pillar for WM scores 50/100 against its sector peers, which we read as mixed. This is our own derived score; we do not republish individual analyst ratings, counts or targets.
- When does WM report earnings next?
- WM's next earnings report is estimated for about 2026-10-26 (window 2026-10-23 to 2026-10-29), based on its past SEC 8-K earnings filings. This is an estimate, not a company-confirmed date.
- Is WM 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