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Waste Connections, Inc. (WCN)

Industrials | Waste Management | Woodbridge, Canada | NYSE
165.51 USD +8.69 (5.541%) ⇧ (Oct. 15, 2026, 4 p.m. EDT)

Short-term:★★☆☆☆Long-term:★★★★☆Dividends:★★☆☆☆
Hot Take ↕ | Oct. 10, 2026, 8:36 a.m. EDT

Waste Connections presents a classic case of long-term strength battling short-term technical weakness. While the stock trades below its 50-day and 200-day moving averages and has slipped in recent sessions, the underlying business remains robust with a nine-year cumulative gain of over 250 percent and a strong analyst consensus pointing to significant upside potential. The fundamentals support a solid buy for the long horizon, yet the immediate chart looks battered, creating a wait-and-see environment for traders. Investors should view the low dividend yield as a minor perk rather than a primary income driver, focusing instead on the company's operational efficiency and growth trajectory which justify the premium valuation.

Model Selection — Backtest MAE (log-scale, lower is better)
ModelMAE
AutoARIMA ✓0.036923
AutoETS0.036923
MSTL0.037297
AutoTheta0.076309

Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: AutoARIMA

Forecast Reliability
Score 50%
H-stat 16.13
Ljung-Box p 0.000
Jarque-Bera p 0.134
Excess Kurtosis -0.95
Attribute Value
Sector Industrials
Ex Dividend Date 2026-08-05
Last Dividend Date 2026-08-05
Debt to Equity Ratio 121.68
Revenue per Share 38.233
Market Cap 41,637,224,448
Trailing P/E 37.11
Forward P/E 26.68
Beta 0.48
Profit Margins 10.86%
Website https://www.wasteconnections.com

As of Oct. 10, 2026, 8:36 a.m. EDT: Speculators are positioning for a potential recovery with heavy call open interest at 160 to 185 strikes for late 2026, indicating a bullish bias for the medium term. However, there is significant downside hedging activity, specifically a large concentration of put open interest at the 130 strike for November 2026, suggesting investors are protecting against a deeper correction despite the overall upside skew.


Dividend Data

Yield Summary
Last Yield 1yr Yield 3yr Avg 5yr Avg
0.21% 0.65% 0.68% 0.69%
Dividend History
Date Dividend Yield %
2026-08-06 0.350000 0.209093
2026-05-06 0.350000 0.228043
2026-02-25 0.350000 0.210084
2025-08-06 0.315000 0.167678
2025-05-07 0.315000 0.158778
2025-02-27 0.315000 0.169064
2024-11-07 0.315000 0.173172
2024-08-07 0.285000 0.158960
2024-05-07 0.285000 0.172205
2024-02-27 0.285000 0.169310
2023-11-07 0.285000 0.216450
2023-08-15 0.255000 0.184315
2023-05-09 0.255000 0.178621
2023-02-28 0.255000 0.190412
2022-11-15 0.255000 0.187348
2022-08-17 0.230000 0.159811
2022-05-17 0.230000 0.180576
2022-03-01 0.230000 0.182815
2021-11-08 0.230000 0.170737
2021-08-17 0.205000 0.161494
2021-05-11 0.205000 0.169421
2021-03-02 0.205000 0.205989
2020-11-09 0.205000 0.192905
2020-07-31 0.185000 0.180717
2020-05-04 0.185000 0.216780
2020-02-26 0.185000 0.185241
2019-11-08 0.185000 0.208240
2019-08-09 0.160000 0.174368
2019-05-07 0.160000 0.175573
2019-02-28 0.160000 0.191847
2018-11-09 0.160000 0.207900
2018-05-15 0.140000 0.186866
2018-02-27 0.140000 0.195422
2017-11-07 0.140000 0.202488
2017-08-03 0.120000 0.183599
2017-05-08 0.120000 0.194468
2017-03-03 0.120000 0.205058
2016-11-03 0.120000 0.242948
2016-07-28 0.096667 0.195129
2016-04-29 0.096667 0.215518
2016-02-26 0.096667 0.230929
2015-11-05 0.096667 0.262968
2015-08-06 0.086667 0.261623
2015-04-28 0.086667 0.276479
2015-02-26 0.086667 0.276010
2014-10-31 0.086667 0.260522
2014-07-30 0.076667 0.236529
2014-04-29 0.076667 0.258138
2014-02-07 0.076667 0.274464
2013-11-01 0.076667 0.269638
2013-08-02 0.066667 0.228834
2013-05-06 0.066667 0.263367
2013-02-01 0.066667 0.278631
2012-11-01 0.066667 0.302848
2012-08-02 0.060000 0.297915
2012-05-07 0.060000 0.284091
2012-02-16 0.060000 0.282043
2011-10-31 0.060000 0.264317
2011-08-01 0.050000 0.233064
2011-05-04 0.050000 0.245821
2011-02-17 0.050000 0.251509
2010-10-27 0.050222 0.282711
Additional Data
dividendYield 0.85
exDividendDate 2026-08-06
trailingAnnualDividendRate 1.365
trailingAnnualDividendYield 0.008704247
lastDividendValue 0.35
lastDividendDate 2026-08-06
dividendDate 2026-08-20

Info Dump

Attribute Value
52 Week Change -0.043128848
Address1 6,220 Highway 7
Address2 Suite 600
All Time High 201.66
All Time Low 1.82716
Ask 0.0
Ask Size 800
Audit Risk 4
Average Analyst Rating 1.4 - Strong Buy
Average Daily Volume10 Day 1,932,300
Average Daily Volume3 Month 1,336,515
Average Volume 1,336,515
Average Volume10Days 1,932,300
Beta 0.481
Bid 0.0
Bid Size 700
Board Risk 1
Book Value 31.414
City Woodbridge
Compensation As Of Epoch Date 1,767,139,200
Compensation Risk 2
Country Canada
Crypto Tradeable 0
Currency USD
Current Price 165.51
Current Ratio 0.657
Custom Price Alert Confidence HIGH
Date Short Interest 1,790,726,400
Day High 165.71
Day Low 159.27
Debt To Equity 121.68
Display Name Waste Connections
Dividend Date 1,787,184,000
Dividend Yield 0.85
Earnings Call Timestamp End 1,792,699,200
Earnings Call Timestamp Start 1,792,699,200
Earnings Growth 0.044
Earnings Quarterly Growth 0.021
Earnings Timestamp 1,792,612,800
Earnings Timestamp End 1,792,612,800
Earnings Timestamp Start 1,792,612,800
Ebitda 3,124,495,104
Ebitda Margins 0.32
Enterprise To Ebitda 16.404
Enterprise To Revenue 5.249
Enterprise Value 51,254,755,328
Eps Current Year 5.64936
Eps Forward 6.20305
Eps Trailing Twelve Months 4.46
Esg Populated 0
Ex Dividend Date 1,785,974,400
Exchange NYQ
Exchange Data Delayed By 20
Exchange Timezone Name America/New_York
Exchange Timezone Short Name EDT
Fifty Day Average 160.8134
Fifty Day Average Change 4.696594
Fifty Day Average Change Percent 0.029205242
Fifty Two Week Change Percent -4.312885
Fifty Two Week High 179.74
Fifty Two Week High Change -14.230011
Fifty Two Week High Change Percent -0.079169974
Fifty Two Week Low 146.89
Fifty Two Week Low Change 18.619995
Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent 0.1267615
Fifty Two Week Range 146.89 - 179.74
Financial Currency USD
First Trade Date Milliseconds 895,843,800,000
Five Year Avg Dividend Yield 0.7
Float Shares 251,185,002
Forward Eps 6.20305
Forward P E 26.682034
Free Cashflow 1,048,649,280
Full Exchange Name NYSE
Full Time Employees 24,214
Fullday Change 8.689987
Fullday Change Percent 5.5413766
Fullday Price 165.51
Gmt Off Set Milliseconds -14,400,000
Governance Epoch Date 1,790,812,800
Gross Margins 0.42529
Gross Profits 4,152,523,008
Has Pre Post Market Data 1
Held Percent Insiders 0.0025600002
Held Percent Institutions 0.91262
Implied Shares Outstanding 251,569,244
Industry Waste Management
Industry Disp Waste Management
Industry Key waste-management
Is Earnings Date Estimate 0
Language en-US
Last Dividend Date 1,785,974,400
Last Dividend Value 0.35
Last Fiscal Year End 1,767,139,200
Last Split Date 1,497,830,400
Last Split Factor 3:2
Long Business Summary Waste Connections, Inc. provides non-hazardous waste collection, transfer, and disposal services in the United States and Canada. It offers collection services to residential, commercial, municipal, industrial, and exploration and production (E&P) customers; landfill disposal services; and recycling services for various recyclable materials, including compost, cardboard, mixed paper, plastic containers, glass bottles, and ferrous and aluminum metals. The company owns and operates transfer stations that receive, compact, and/or load waste to be transported to landfills or treatment facilities through truck, rail, or barge; develops, owns, and operates projects or the beneficial reuse of landfill gas through landfill network; and intermodal services for the movement of cargo and solid waste containers. In addition, it provides E&P waste treatment, recovery, and disposal services for waste created through the initial drilling and completion of an oil or natural gas well, such as drilling fluids, drill cuttings, completion fluids, and flowback water; production wastes and produced water during a well's operating life; contaminated soils that require treatment during site reclamation; and substances, which require clean-up after a spill, reserve pit clean-up, or pipeline rupture. Waste Connections, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is based in Woodbridge, Canada.
Long Name Waste Connections, Inc.
Market us_market
Market Cap 41,637,224,448
Market State PRE
Max Age 86,400
Message Board Id finmb_384586
Most Recent Quarter 1,782,777,600
Net Income To Common 1,060,512,000
Next Fiscal Year End 1,798,675,200
Non Diluted Market Cap 39,096,376,210
Number Of Analyst Opinions 25
Open 159.61
Operating Cashflow 2,513,213,952
Operating Margins 0.19695999
Overall Risk 1
Payout Ratio 0.32970002
Peg Ratio 1.51
Phone 905 532 7510
Previous Close 156.82
Price Eps Current Year 29.297123
Price Hint 2
Price To Book 5.26867
Price To Sales Trailing12 Months 4.264395
Profit Margins 0.10862
Quick Ratio 0.55
Quote Source Name Delayed Quote
Quote Type EQUITY
Recommendation Key strong_buy
Recommendation Mean 1.42857
Region US
Regular Market Change 8.68999
Regular Market Change Percent 5.54138
Regular Market Day High 165.71
Regular Market Day Low 159.27
Regular Market Day Range 159.27 - 165.71
Regular Market Open 159.61
Regular Market Previous Close 156.82
Regular Market Price 165.51
Regular Market Time 1,792,094,402
Regular Market Volume 4,186,426
Return On Assets 0.05494
Return On Equity 0.13033
Revenue Growth 0.064
Revenue Per Share 38.233
Sand P52 Week Change 0.16207206
Sector Industrials
Sector Disp Industrials
Sector Key industrials
Share Holder Rights Risk 2
Shares Outstanding 251,569,244
Shares Percent Shares Out 0.0156
Shares Short 3,922,424
Shares Short Previous Month Date 1,788,134,400
Shares Short Prior Month 3,836,909
Short Name Waste Connections, Inc.
Short Percent Of Float 0.0179
Short Ratio 3.22
Source Interval 15
State ON
Symbol WCN
Target High Price 220.0
Target Low Price 162.0
Target Mean Price 197.12
Target Median Price 197.0
Total Cash 100,524,000
Total Cash Per Share 0.399
Total Debt 9,638,559,744
Total Revenue 9,763,922,944
Tradeable 0
Trailing Annual Dividend Rate 1.365
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield 0.008704247
Trailing Eps 4.46
Trailing P E 37.109863
Trailing Peg Ratio 1.5071
Triggerable 1
Two Hundred Day Average 163.041
Two Hundred Day Average Change 2.4689941
Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent 0.0151433945
Type Disp Equity
Volume 4,186,426
Website https://www.wasteconnections.com
Zip L4H 4G3