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Waste Connections WCN Price / sales

Price / sales at other companies

Waste Management logo
Waste ManagementWM
3.6×-0.4×
Republic Services logo
Republic ServicesRSG
4.1×-0.6×
EMCOR Group logo
EMCOR GroupEME
1.9×+0.7×
MTZ
MasTecMTZ
1.7×+0.9×
Williams Companies logo
Williams CompaniesWMB
6.7×+1.5×
Texas Pacific Land logo
Texas Pacific LandTPL
39×-2.9×

Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$2.4B+6.4%
Gross profit$1.0B+7.8%
Operating income$364.1M-6.7%
Net income$219.3M-9.2%
EPS (diluted)$0.86-7.5%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$112.4M+1.1%
Total debt$9.4B+8.4%
Total assets$21.2B+4.6%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$545.6M+0.8%
CapEx$296.6M+39.6%
Free cash flow$249.0M-24.3%

Valuation

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Market cap$39.41B-17.6%
Enterprise value$48.74B-13.8%
P/E37.4×

Profitability

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Gross margin42.5%+0.5pp
Operating margin17.5%
Net margin11%

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity13.4%
Debt / equity1.1×0.0×
Current ratio0.7×0.0×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Waste Connections’s reported figures.

Based on the most recent quarter.

The official record: Waste Connections’s 10-Q, filed April 23, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Waste Connections's price / sales?
Waste Connections (WCN) reported price / sales of 4.3× in Q1 2026.
How has Waste Connections's price / sales changed year-over-year?
Waste Connections's price / sales decreased by 22.2% year-over-year, from 5.6× to 4.3×.
What is the long-term trend for Waste Connections's price / sales?
Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Waste Connections's price / sales has grown at a -1.7% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 21.9× to 20.4×.
What does price / sales mean?
How many dollars investors pay for each dollar of the company's annual sales.
How do you interpret price / sales?
Useful when earnings are negative or volatile (e.g. early-stage or cyclical firms). Only comparable across companies with similar margins — a sales dollar is worth more at a high-margin business.
How does price / sales compare across companies?
Best compared within a margin cohort; a software P/S and a retailer P/S are not directly comparable.