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Waste Connections WCN Return on equity

Return on equity at other companies

Waste Management logo
Waste ManagementWM
29.9%-4.1pp
Republic Services logo
Republic ServicesRSG
18.4%-0.2pp
EMCOR Group logo
EMCOR GroupEME
39.2%+1.5pp
MTZ
MasTecMTZ
14.5%+6.8pp
Williams Companies logo
Williams CompaniesWMB
19%-4.7pp
Texas Pacific Land logo
Texas Pacific LandTPL
36.5%-3.1pp

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×
P/S4.1×-1.2×

Profitability

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

Returns & leverage

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Debt / equity1.1×0.0×
Current ratio0.7×0.0×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Waste Connections’s reported figures.

Based on trailing twelve months.

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 return on equity?
Waste Connections (WCN) reported return on equity of 13.4% in Q4 2025.
What is the long-term trend for Waste Connections's return on equity?
Over 2 years (2021 to 2023), Waste Connections's return on equity has grown at a 23.0% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 30.2% to 45.6%.
What does return on equity mean?
How much profit the company earns on the money shareholders have invested.
How do you interpret return on equity?
Higher is better, but very high ROE can be manufactured by leverage — a thin equity base inflates the ratio. Read it next to debt-to-equity and ROIC to tell genuine returns from balance-sheet engineering.
How does return on equity compare across companies?
Comparable across peers, with the leverage caveat. Negative or near-zero equity makes ROE meaningless, so it is suppressed there.