Waste Management Inc
- Industry
- Environmental Services
- Exchange
- US
- Country
- USA
- IPO date
- Jun 2, 1988
- Employees
- 60,500
- Website
- www.wm.com
Composite valuation range · conservative $145–$165 / fair $185–$210 / optimistic $240–$275. At $237.9, Between the fair and optimistic ranges.
At publication $217.9 (May 26, 2026)
Data from EODHD, shown in the reporting currency; for reference only, not investment advice.
Waste Management, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides environmental solutions to residential, commercial, industrial, and municipal customers in the United States, Canada, Western Europe, and internationally. It offers collection services, including picking up and transporting waste and recyclable materials from where it was generated to a transfer station, recovery facility, or disposal site; owns and operates transfer stations; and owns, develops, and operates landfill gas-to-energy facilities that produce renewable electricity and renewable natural gas. It also operates materials processing and commodities recycling services, including cardboard, paper, glass, metals, plastics, construction and demolition materials, and other recycling commodities are recovered for resale or redirected for other purposes; markets and resells recycling commodities; recycling brokerage services, such as managing the marketing of recyclable materials for third parties; and other strategic business solutions. In addition, the company collects recyclable food and yard waste, as well as markets and sells mulch, compost, soil amendments, and renewable energy; offers remediation and construction, and industrial waste services; and manages and markets fly ash. Further, it provides Regulated Waste and Compliance Services (RWCS), which offers compliance programs, as well as collection, processing, and disposal of regulated and specialized waste, including medical, pharmaceutical, and hazardous waste; and Secure Information Destruction (SID) services that include the collection of personal and confidential information for secure destruction and recycling of sorted office paper. The company was formerly known as USA Waste Services, Inc. and changed its name to Waste Management, Inc. in 1998. Waste Management, Inc. was founded in 1968 and is based in Houston, Texas.
History
Waste Management, Inc. was founded in 1968 and is based in Houston, Texas. The company was formerly known as USA Waste Services, Inc. and changed its name to Waste Management, Inc. in 1998. Its IPO date was June 2, 1988. In 2024 the company acquired Stericycle, adding medical and regulated waste, compliance services, and secure information destruction, which now form its Healthcare Solutions platform.
Industry position
Waste Management describes itself as North America's leading integrated environmental solutions provider, operating the region's largest disposal network and collection fleet. As of year-end 2025 it owned or operated 257 landfills with a weighted-average remaining life of about 38 years (about 39 years including pending expansions), with expansion permits being sought at 15 landfills. By comparison, Republic Services had 207 active landfills at year-end 2025, and Waste Connections describes itself as the third-largest solid waste company in North America. In 2025, WM's net operating revenues totaled $25.204 billion, comprising Collection & Disposal of $20.704 billion, Healthcare Solutions of $2.508 billion, Recycling Processing and Sales of $1.492 billion, and Renewable Energy of $0.478 billion.