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Republic Services RSG Return on assets

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19.5%+0.4pp
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Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$4.1B+2.6%
Gross profit$1.7B+3.1%
Operating income$830.0M+3.2%
Net income$525.3M+6.1%
EPS (diluted)$1.70+7.6%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$118.0M+42.2%
Total debt$49.0M-12.5%
Total equity$12.0B+2.7%
Total assets$34.6B+4.5%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$1.2B+19.7%
CapEx$476.0M+3.7%
Free cash flow$751.0M+32.7%

Valuation

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Market cap$63.82B-10.5%
Enterprise value$63.75B-10.6%
P/E29.4×-4.8×
P/S3.8×-0.6×

Profitability

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Gross margin42%0.0pp
Operating margin19.9%-0.3pp
Net margin13%+0.1pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity18.4%-0.2pp
Debt / equity0.0×
Current ratio0.7×0.0×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Republic Services’s reported figures.

Based on trailing twelve months.

The official record: Republic Services’s 10-Q, filed May 8, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Republic Services's return on assets?
Republic Services (RSG) reported return on assets of 6.4% in Q1 2026.
How has Republic Services's return on assets changed year-over-year?
Republic Services's return on assets decreased by 0.9% year-over-year, from 6.5% to 6.4%.
What is the long-term trend for Republic Services's return on assets?
Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Republic Services's return on assets has grown at a 7.0% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 19.6% to 25.8%.
What does return on assets mean?
How much profit the company squeezes out of everything it owns.
How do you interpret return on assets?
Higher means more productive assets. Unlike ROE, it is unaffected by leverage, so a wide ROE-minus-ROA gap flags a heavily levered balance sheet.
How does return on assets compare across companies?
Best compared within an industry — asset intensity varies enormously across sectors. Not meaningful for banks, whose assets are largely financial.