Compare Stocks: WM, COST, and PRU

Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
COST Costco Wholesale	$1,106.21 +1.3%	$967.12	$844.06 ▼ $1,109.50	$483.99B	0.85	2.39 million shs	1.87 million shs
PRU Prudential Financial	$123.55 +0.9%	$117.32	$91.89 ▼ $128.78	$41.99B	0.85	1.88 million shs	1.14 million shs
WM Waste Management	$243.47 -0.3%	$221.43	$200.57 ▼ $248.13	$97.07B	0.38	2.40 million shs	1.35 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
COST Costco Wholesale	+1.28%	+5.00%	+12.65%	+15.10%	+21.03%
PRU Prudential Financial	+0.93%	+3.52%	+8.93%	-1.20%	+14.71%
WM Waste Management	-0.22%	+2.95%	+12.98%	+8.34%	+19.38%

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
COST Costco Wholesale	$1,106.21 +1.3%	$967.12	$844.06 ▼ $1,109.50	$483.99B	0.85	2.39 million shs	1.87 million shs
PRU Prudential Financial	$123.55 +0.9%	$117.32	$91.89 ▼ $128.78	$41.99B	0.85	1.88 million shs	1.14 million shs
WM Waste Management	$243.47 -0.3%	$221.43	$200.57 ▼ $248.13	$97.07B	0.38	2.40 million shs	1.35 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
COST Costco Wholesale	+1.28%	+5.00%	+12.65%	+15.10%	+21.03%
PRU Prudential Financial	+0.93%	+3.52%	+8.93%	-1.20%	+14.71%
WM Waste Management	-0.22%	+2.95%	+12.98%	+8.34%	+19.38%

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
COST Costco Wholesale	2.71	Moderate Buy	$1,092.23	-1.26% Downside
PRU Prudential Financial	1.76	Reduce	$115.67	-6.38% Downside
WM Waste Management	2.69	Moderate Buy	$257.04	5.57% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest WM, COST, and PRU Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
11/12/2026	PRU Prudential Financial	Wells Fargo & Company Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Boost Price Target	Underweight	$103.00 ➝ $113.00
11/12/2026	PRU Prudential Financial	Mizuho Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Boost Price Target	Neutral	$116.00 ➝ $120.00
11/11/2026	COST Costco Wholesale	Sanford C. Bernstein Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Boost Price Target	Outperform	$1,143.00 ➝ $1,155.00
11/11/2026	PRU Prudential Financial	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Boost Price Target	Neutral	$92.00 ➝ $125.00
11/10/2026	COST Costco Wholesale	Freedom Broker Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Downgrade	Buy ➝ Hold	$1,010.00 ➝ $1,050.00
11/5/2026	COST Costco Wholesale	JPMorgan Chase & Co. Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Boost Price Target	Overweight	$1,015.00 ➝ $1,150.00
11/5/2026	PRU Prudential Financial	Piper Sandler Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Boost Price Target	Neutral	$120.00 ➝ $133.00
11/4/2026	COST Costco Wholesale	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Downgrade	Buy (B) ➝ Buy (B-)
11/4/2026	PRU Prudential Financial	Bank of America Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Reiterated Rating	Neutral
11/4/2026	PRU Prudential Financial	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Boost Price Target	Underweight	$94.00 ➝ $98.00
10/30/2026	WM Waste Management	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Boost Price Target	Buy	$270.00 ➝ $280.00

(Data available from 11/14/2023 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
COST Costco Wholesale	$303.15B	1.62	$26.88 per share	41.15	$80.80 per share	13.69
PRU Prudential Financial	$57.68B	0.73	$15.25 per share	8.10	$87.26 per share	1.42
WM Waste Management	$25.20B	3.84	$14.95 per share	16.29	$24.82 per share	9.81

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
COST Costco Wholesale	$9.23B	$20.76	53.29	44.35	4.82	3.04%	27.60%	10.63%	12/10/2026 (Estimated)
PRU Prudential Financial	$3.58B	$10.99	11.24	9.04	1.93	6.75%	16.38%	0.67%	2/2/2027 (Estimated)
WM Waste Management	$2.71B	$7.62	31.95	27.36	3.17	11.78%	31.97%	6.90%	1/27/2027 (Estimated)

Latest WM, COST, and PRU Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
12/10/2026	Q1 2027	COST Costco Wholesale	$4.92	N/A	N/A	N/A	$74.35 billion	N/A
11/3/2026	Q3 2026	PRU Prudential Financial	$3.33	$3.77	+$0.44	$3.96	$14.66 billion	$14.45 billion
10/27/2026	Q3 2026	WM Waste Management	$2.18	$2.15	-$0.03	$2.05	$6.81 billion	$6.85 billion
9/24/2026	Q4 2026	COST Costco Wholesale	$6.54	$6.75	+$0.21	$6.75	$94.97 billion	$95.72 billion

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	5-Year Annualized Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
COST Costco Wholesale	$5.88	0.53%	-15.66%	28.32%	22 Years
PRU Prudential Financial	$5.60	4.53%	+4.18%	50.96%	18 Years
WM Waste Management	$3.78	1.55%	+8.65%	49.61%	23 Years

Latest WM, COST, and PRU Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
11/10/2026	PRU Prudential Financial	quarterly	$1.40	4.54%	11/24/2026	11/24/2026	12/10/2026
11/10/2026	COST Costco Wholesale	special	$30.00		11/24/2026	11/24/2026	12/4/2026
10/14/2026	COST Costco Wholesale	quarterly	$1.47	0.58%	10/30/2026	10/30/2026	11/13/2026
8/24/2026	WM Waste Management	quarterly	$0.9450	1.77%	9/11/2026	9/11/2026	9/25/2026

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
COST Costco Wholesale	0.11	1.06	0.62
PRU Prudential Financial	0.66	0.17	0.17
WM Waste Management	2.21	0.82	0.78

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
COST Costco Wholesale	68.48%
PRU Prudential Financial	56.83%
WM Waste Management	80.40%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
COST Costco Wholesale	0.10%
PRU Prudential Financial	0.05%
WM Waste Management	0.18%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
COST Costco Wholesale	355,000	443.13 million	442.69 million	Optionable
PRU Prudential Financial	36,824	343.00 million	342.83 million	Optionable
WM Waste Management	60,500	397.64 million	396.92 million	Optionable

WM, COST, and PRU Headlines

Recent News About These Companies

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Waste Management Reaches 52-Week High at $244.13 With No Overhead Resistance

November 12 at 11:34 PM | 247wallst.com

Waste Management (WM) Pushes Deeper Into Multi Material Recycling With New Tech Bets

November 12 at 11:34 PM | finance.yahoo.com

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November 12 at 3:13 PM | marketbeat.com

Analysts Offer Insights on Industrial Goods Companies: Wesco International (WCC) and Waste Management (WM)

November 12 at 1:33 PM | theglobeandmail.com

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November 12 at 10:50 AM | quiverquant.comQ

Waste Management Stocks To Keep An Eye On - November 11th

November 11 at 3:13 PM | marketbeat.com

Multi Material Recycling - Global Strategic Business Report: Capitalize on a 10.1% CAGR to US$26.1 Billion by 2032 as Veolia, Waste Management, Republic Services and SUEZ Disrupt Recycling Economics

November 10, 2026 | finance.yahoo.com

WM Launches "I Recycle" Pledge Ahead of America Recycles Day

November 10, 2026 | prnewswire.com

Waste Management, Inc. $WM Stock Holdings Increased by Retirement Systems of Alabama

November 10, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Waste Management (NYSE:WM) SVP Johnson Varkey Sells 500 Shares of Company Stock

November 10, 2026 | insidertrades.com

This is the Stock I’m Retiring On: It’s Already Up 15% Since September

November 9, 2026 | finance.yahoo.com

Top Waste Management Stocks To Follow Now - November 9th

November 9, 2026 | marketbeat.com

People Keep Paying for Trash Pickup. Here's Why I'd Buy the Company Collecting the Checks.

November 9, 2026 | fool.com

Insider Selling: Waste Management (NYSE:WM) SVP Sells 500 Shares of Company Stock

November 9, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Waste Management: I Bought The Dip And Now I'm Waiting For Another

November 9, 2026 | seekingalpha.com

Waste Management: I Bought The Dip, And Now I'm Waiting For Another

November 9, 2026 | seekingalpha.com

Waste Management, Inc. $WM Holdings Boosted by Pictet Asset Management Holding SA

November 9, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Waste Management, Inc. $WM Shares Bought by Bryn Mawr Trust Advisors LLC

November 9, 2026 | marketbeat.com

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WM, COST, and PRU Company Descriptions

Costco Wholesale NASDAQ:COST

$1,106.21 +14.00 (+1.28%)

Closing price 11/13/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$1,105.49 -0.72 (-0.07%)

As of 11/13/2026 07:59 PM Eastern

Costco Wholesale Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the operation of membership warehouses in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, Japan, the United Kingdom, Korea, Australia, Taiwan, China, Spain, France, Iceland, New Zealand, and Sweden. The company offers branded and private-label products in a range of merchandise categories. It offers merchandise, such as sundries, dry groceries, candies, coolers, freezers, deli, liquor, and tobacco; appliances, electronics, health and beauty aids, hardware, garden and patio products, sporting goods, tires, toys and seasonal products, office supplies, automotive care products, postages, tickets, apparel, small appliances, furniture, domestics, housewares, special order kiosks, and jewelry; and meat, produce, service deli, and bakery products. The company also operates gasoline, pharmacies, optical, food courts, hearing-aid centers, and tire installation centers; and offers business delivery, travel, grocery, and various other services online. It also operates e-commerce websites. The company was formerly known as Costco Companies, Inc. and changed its name to Costco Wholesale Corporation in August 1999. Costco Wholesale Corporation was founded in 1976 and is based in Issaquah, Washington.

Prudential Financial NYSE:PRU

$123.55 +1.14 (+0.93%)

Closing price 11/13/2026 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$123.65 +0.10 (+0.08%)

As of 11/13/2026 07:30 PM Eastern

Prudential Financial, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides insurance, investment management, and other financial products and services in the United States and internationally. It operates through PGIM, Retirement Strategies, Group Insurance, Individual Life, and International Businesses segments. The PGIM segment offers investment management services and solutions related to public fixed income, public equity, real estate debt and equity, private credit and other alternatives, and multi-asset class strategies to institutional and retail clients, as well as its general account. The Retirement Strategies segment provides a range of retirement investment, and income products and services to retirement plan sponsors in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors; develops and distributes individual variable and fixed annuity products. The Group Insurance segment offers various group life, and long-term and short-term group disability, as well as group corporate-, bank-, and trust-owned life insurance in the United States primarily for institutional clients for use in connection with employee and membership benefits plans; sells accidental death and dismemberment, and other supplemental health solutions; and plan administration services in connection with its insurance coverages. The Individual Life segment develops and distributes variable life, universal life, and term life insurance products. The International Businesses segment develops and distributes life insurance, retirement products, investment products, and certain accident and health products; and advisory services. The company provides its products and services to individual and institutional customers through its proprietary and third-party distribution networks. Prudential Financial, Inc. was founded in 1875 and is headquartered in Newark, New Jersey.

Waste Management NYSE:WM

$243.47 -0.64 (-0.26%)

Closing price 11/13/2026 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$244.00 +0.53 (+0.22%)

As of 11/13/2026 07:56 PM Eastern

Waste Management, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of environmental solutions to residential, commercial, industrial, and municipal customers in the United States and Canada. It offers collection services, including picking up and transporting waste and recyclable materials from where it was generated to a transfer station, material recovery facility (MRF), or disposal site; and owns and operates transfer stations, as well as owns, develops, and operates landfill facilities that produce landfill gas used as renewable natural gas for generating electricity. As of December 31, 2022, the company owned or operated 254 solid waste landfills, five secure hazardous waste landfills, 97 MRFs, and 337 transfer stations. It also provides materials processing and commodities recycling services at its MRFs, where cardboard, paper, glass, metals, plastics, construction and demolition materials, and other recycling commodities are recovered for resale or redirected for other purposes; recycling brokerage services, such as managing the marketing of recyclable materials for third parties; and other strategic business solutions. In addition, the company offers construction and remediation services; services related with the disposal of fly ash, and residue generated from the combustion of coal and other fuel stocks; in-plant services comprising full-service waste management solutions and consulting services; and specialized disposal services for oil and gas exploration and production operations. The company was formerly known as USA Waste Services, Inc. and changed its name to Waste Management, Inc. in 1998. Waste Management, Inc. was incorporated in 1987 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

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