WASTE CONNECTIONS, INC. vs Waste Management, Inc, two Waste Management stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where WCN and WM diverge most: on debt / equity, WCN reads 1.14 and WM reads 0.06; on return on invested capital, WCN reads 7.6% and WM reads 33.5%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's WCN price has a different growth bar priced in than WM (+15.1% implied for WCN vs +8.5% for WM); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What WCN's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). What WM's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | WCN | WM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $171.13 | $233.35 |
| Market cap | $43.8B | $94.4B |
| Sector | Waste Management | Waste Management |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +15.1% | +8.5% |
| P/E | 41.7 | 33.8 |
| P/B | 5.43 | 9.42 |
| P/S | 4.56 | 3.71 |
| EV/EBITDA | 18.0 | 13.0 |
| Revenue growth | +5.9% | +11.1% |
| Operating margin | 15.4% | 17.9% |
| Net margin | 11.0% | 11.0% |
| Return on equity | 13.1% | 27.9% |
| Return on assets | 5.0% | 6.1% |
| Return on invested capital | 7.6% | 33.5% |
| FCF yield | 2.6% | 3.5% |
| Dividend yield | 0.8% | 1.4% |
| Debt / equity | 1.14 | 0.06 |
| Current ratio | 0.69 | 0.93 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 2.83 | 2.75 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 6 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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