Is the price fair?
What WM's price assumes
Waste Management trades at 31.3× earnings against 29.9× for the median Industrials name, more expensive than its own group.
31.3
Trailing P/E · Industrials median 29.9 · 1.05× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 3.64
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 4.2%
Free cash flow yield · Industrials median 4.0%
- Growth the price implies
- +8.1%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +8.1% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +33% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 9.23
- Industrials median P/E346 names
- 29.9
- Waste Management median P/E5 names
- 40.8
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $3.57B
- Market capitalisation
- $86.2B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +8.6%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +33%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $156.44 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $201.58 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $224.95 |
| 52-week range | $194.39 – $244.47 |
| Today | $221.26 |
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 #106 of 332 by Smart Score