Is the price fair?
What WCN's price assumes
Waste Connections, Inc. trades at 40.8× earnings against 29.9× for the median Industrials name, more expensive than its own group.
40.8
Trailing P/E · Industrials median 29.9 · 1.36× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 4.32
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 2.9%
Free cash flow yield · Industrials median 4.0%
- Growth the price implies
- +13%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +13% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +2.0% a year over the last three.
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- Industrials median P/E346 names
- 29.9
- Waste Management median P/E5 names
- 40.8
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $1.15B
- Market capitalisation
- $39.1B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +8.8%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +2.0%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $169.41 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $206.76 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $262.19 |
| 52-week range | $149.02 – $189.75 |
| Today | $167.13 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Industrials
Ranks #165 of 332 by Smart Score