On Friday, Waste Connections Inc (NYSE: WCN) was 0.22% up from the session before settling in for the closing price of $182.23. A 52-week range for WCN has been $169.36 – $201.66.
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Industrials Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 2.13% over the last five years. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 8.42%. With a float of $257.66 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $258.32 million.
The firm has a total of 23854 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 38.88%, operating margin of 12.19%, and the pretax margin is 8.68%.
Waste Connections Inc (WCN) Insider Activity
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Waste Connections Inc stocks. The insider ownership of Waste Connections Inc is 0.26%, while institutional ownership is 91.13%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on May 23 ’25, was worth 190,972. In this transaction SR VP Operations of this company sold 973 shares at a rate of $196.27, taking the stock ownership to the 4,250 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Mar 10 ’25, when Company’s EVP & COO sold 13,566 for $188.30, making the entire transaction worth $2,554,478. This insider now owns 95,000 shares in total.
Waste Connections Inc (WCN) Earnings and Forecasts
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 8.42% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 11.36% during the next five years compared to 2.13% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Waste Connections Inc (NYSE: WCN) Trading Performance Indicators
You can see what Waste Connections Inc (WCN) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 0.70. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 5.20. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 40.76.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 2.43, a number that is poised to hit 1.25 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 5.92 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 1.29 million was better than the volume posted last year of 1.13 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 52.88%.
During the past 100 days, Waste Connections Inc’s (WCN) raw stochastic average was set at 20.95%, which indicates a significant decrease from 51.53% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 2.99 in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 3.41 volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $188.89, while its 200-day Moving Average is $186.14. Now, the first resistance to watch is $183.73. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $184.82. The third major resistance level sits at $185.77. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $181.69, it is likely to go to the next support level at $180.74. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $179.65.
Waste Connections Inc (NYSE: WCN) Key Stats
There are 258,393K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 47.19 billion. As of now, sales total 8,920 M while income totals 617,570 K. Its latest quarter income was 2,228 M while its last quarter net income were 241,510 K.
