REPUBLIC SERVICES, INC.
At today's price, REPUBLIC SERVICES, INC. (RSG) is priced for +8.2% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Republic Services owns the one asset in waste that cannot be replicated, permitted landfill capacity, which is why it raises price above inflation almost every year and earns a 17% operating margin on collection, transfer, and disposal. • The counterintuitive part: even after weather and diesel hit Q1 2026, adjusted EBITDA margin still expanded 50 basis points to 32.1% on pricing discipline [Source: Republic Services Q1 2026 earnings release, May 2026]. • The watch item is pricing versus cost
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1,282 institutional managers reported holding RSG in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 57% of the company; the top 10 hold 26%. 107 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 3.7M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 1% of shares outstanding (2.3 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
RSG has cut its share count 3.3% over the past five years, spending $2.36B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (18 and counting), raised 17 years straight; the current rate is $2.41 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $1.94B in dividends and $1.95B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at RSG over the trailing three years: 2024: 2 buys totaling $115k; 2025: 2 buys totaling $1.10M. 17 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
RSG's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-02 | +0.4% | -6.2% |
| 2023-10-28 | -1.1% | +12.9% |
| 2024-03-01 | +0.6% | +1.0% |
| 2024-05-02 | -3.8% | +3.8% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
RSG's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-24 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-05-11 (items 5.07); 2026-05-07 (items 2.02, 8.01, 9.01); 2026-02-17 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-02-17 (items 5.03).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 28, 2026
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