Waste Connections Inc (NYSE: WCN) on Tuesday, plunged -0.66% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $165.77. Within the past 52 weeks, WCN’s price has moved between $126.12 and $173.02.
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Industrials Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 10.39% over the last five years. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 14.12%. With a float of $256.76 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $257.60 million.
The firm has a total of 22539 workers. Let’s measure their productivity.
Waste Connections Inc (WCN) Insider Activity
Observing investor behavior towards Waste Management industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Waste Connections Inc is 0.36%, while institutional ownership is 94.08%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Mar 07 ’24, was worth 1,011,840. In this transaction Executive VP Engineering of this company sold 6,000 shares at a rate of $168.64, taking the stock ownership to the 28,215 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Mar 07 ’24, when Company’s Director sold 2,000 for $168.79, making the entire transaction worth $337,590. This insider now owns 31,600 shares in total.
Waste Connections Inc (WCN) Earnings and Forecasts
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 18.82 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 14.12% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 15.20% during the next five years compared to 7.33% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Waste Connections Inc (NYSE: WCN) Trading Performance Indicators
Waste Connections Inc (WCN) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 0.64 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 5.29. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 35.90.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 2.95, a number that is poised to hit 1.00 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 5.47 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Waste Connections Inc (WCN)
Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Waste Connections Inc, WCN], we can find that recorded value of 0.71 million was lower than the volume posted last year of 0.89 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 15.79%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 2.32.
During the past 100 days, Waste Connections Inc’s (WCN) raw stochastic average was set at 80.43%, which indicates a significant increase from 2.68% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 8.26% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 16.41% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $166.84, while its 200-day Moving Average is $147.13. Now, the first resistance to watch is $165.83. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $166.98. The third major resistance level sits at $167.68. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $163.98, it is likely to go to the next support level at $163.28. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $162.13.
Waste Connections Inc (NYSE: WCN) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 42.43 billion based on 258,019K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 8,022 M and income totals 762,800 K. The company made 2,036 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 126,750 K in sales during its previous quarter.
