Waste Connections, Inc
Waste Connections, Inc. provides waste collection, transfer, disposal, and recycling services in the United States and Canada. The company operates through six segments: Southern, Western, Eastern, Canada, Central, and Exploration and Production (E&P). It offers collection services to residential, commercial, municipal, industrial, and 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 also 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; and intermodal services for the rail haul movement of cargo and solid waste containers in the Pacific Northwest through a network of intermodal facilities. In addition, it provides E&P waste treatment, recovery, and disposal services for waste resulting from oil and natural gas exploration and production activity, 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. Further, the company offers container and chassis sales and leasing services to its customers. As of December 31, 2019, it owned or operated a network of 300 solid waste collection operations; 124 transfer stations; 60 municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills; 12 E&P waste landfills; 14 non-MSW landfills; 66 recycling operations; 4 intermodal operations; 23 E&P liquid waste injection wells; and 19 E&P waste treatment and oil recovery facilities. It also operated an additional 51 transfer stations, 10 MSW landfills, and 2 intermodal operations. Waste Connections, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is based in Vaughan, Canada. Show More...
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Website http://www.wasteconnections.com
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Sector Industrials
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Industry Waste Management
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Last Quote 197.09 USD
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Last Updated 30-05-2025
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2010-12 2011-12 2012-12 2013-12 2014-12 2015-12 2016-12 2017-12 2018-12 2019-12 TTM Earnings Per Share USD 0.77 0.97 0.87 1.05 1.86 -0.52 1.07 2.18 2.07 2.14 2.2 Dividends USD 0.05 0.21 0.25 0.28 0.32 0.36 0.41 0.5 0.58 0.67 0.69 Payout Ratio % * 6.4 20.8 28.2 27.2 25.8 38.4 25.8 20.2 29.9 31.3 Shares Mil 175.0 170.0 183.0 186.0 125.0 185.0 231.0 264.0 264.0 265.0 265.0 Book Value Per Share * USD 7.99 8.39 10.18 10.8 11.77 10.59 21.36 22.73 24.7 25.76 25.42 Free Cash Flow Per Share * USD 1.1 1.44 1.44 1.57 1.58 1.79 1.78 3.68 3.03 3.48 Return on Assets % 4.71 5.29 3.79 3.86 4.51 -1.85 3.02 4.97 4.44 4.3 4.29 Financial Leverage (Average) 2.13 2.39 2.7 2.48 2.36 2.58 1.98 1.92 1.96 1.98 2.14 Return on Equity % 9.93 11.97 9.72 9.98 10.89 -4.55 6.46 9.68 8.6 8.47 8.82 Return on Invested Capital % 7.02 7.87 5.68 5.83 6.51 -1.14 4.62 6.99 6.18 6.12 6.06 Interest Coverage 6.62 7.13 6.0 5.36 6.96 -0.96 4.9 5.06 6.35 5.79 5.89 Current Ratio 0.85 0.88 0.87 0.95 1.02 0.96 1.2 1.47 1.27 1.12 1.98 Quick Ratio 0.64 0.67 0.62 0.72 0.76 0.7 0.92 1.23 1.08 0.98 1.84 Debt/Equity 0.67 0.84 1.17 1.01 0.89 1.08 0.64 0.62 0.64 0.65 0.8