Waste Management, Inc (WM) last year’s performance of 30.86% is a clear signal for an entertaining trading season.

Waste Management, Inc (NYSE: WM) on Tuesday, soared 0.52% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $223.62. Within the past 52 weeks, WM’s price has moved between $168.73 and $226.50.

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Industrials Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 6.69% over the last five years. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 18.48%. With a float of $400.52 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $401.46 million.

The firm has a total of 48000 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 34.39%, operating margin of 18.63%, and the pretax margin is 15.91%.

Waste Management, Inc (WM) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock

Observing investor behavior towards Waste Management industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Waste Management, Inc is 0.21%, while institutional ownership is 83.38%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 12 ’24, was worth 1,186,908. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 08 ’24, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 2,455 for $225.75, making the entire transaction worth $554,214.

Waste Management, Inc (WM) Recent Fiscal highlights

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 18.48% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 14.37% during the next five years compared to 4.94% growth over the previous five years of trading.

Waste Management, Inc (NYSE: WM) Trading Performance Indicators

Waste Management, Inc (WM) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 0.85 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 4.22. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 42.90.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 6.55, a number that is poised to hit 1.82 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 8.05 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Waste Management, Inc (WM)

Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Waste Management, Inc, WM], we can find that recorded value of 1.84 million was better than the volume posted last year of 1.62 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 83.81%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 3.55.

During the past 100 days, Waste Management, Inc’s (WM) raw stochastic average was set at 94.25%, which indicates a significant increase from 91.42% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 25.82% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 21.74% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $210.75, while its 200-day Moving Average is $207.98. Now, the first resistance to watch is $226.20. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $227.62. The third major resistance level sits at $228.82. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $223.58, it is likely to go to the next support level at $222.39. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $220.97.

Waste Management, Inc (NYSE: WM) Key Stats

Market capitalization of the company is 90.22 billion based on 401,366K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 20,426 M and income totals 2,304 M. The company made 5,609 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 760,000 K in sales during its previous quarter.