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 1.18 and WM reads 0.11; on return on invested capital, WCN reads 7.4% and WM reads 31.5%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's WCN price has a different growth bar priced in than WM (+13.1% implied for WCN vs +5.8% for WM); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. 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 | $167.38 | $226.66 |
| Market cap | $42.5B | $91.2B |
| Sector | Waste Management | Waste Management |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +13.1% | +5.8% |
| P/E | 40.3 | 32.1 |
| P/B | 5.36 | 9.19 |
| P/S | 4.35 | 3.55 |
| EV/EBITDA | 17.6 | 13.6 |
| Revenue growth | +5.7% | +7.3% |
| Operating margin | 17.1% | 18.8% |
| Net margin | 10.9% | 11.1% |
| Return on equity | 13.4% | 28.7% |
| Return on assets | 5.0% | 6.1% |
| Return on invested capital | 7.4% | 31.5% |
| FCF yield | 2.9% | 3.9% |
| Dividend yield | 0.8% | 1.5% |
| Debt / equity | 1.18 | 0.11 |
| Current ratio | 0.66 | 0.91 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 2.74 | 2.67 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 8 / 9 |
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