Best Waste Management Stocks Worth Watching - August 13th

Key Points

• Seven waste management stocks are highlighted for monitoring, including Waste Management, Rockwell Automation, and GFL Environmental, with a focus on their defensive nature and stable cash flows due to regulatory requirements.
• Waste Management, Inc. has experienced a recent trading volume of 1,176,793 shares and is trading at $229.42, reflecting a 52-week range between $199.69 and $242.58.
• Rockwell Automation shares rose $8.55, reaching $348.30, with a market capitalization of $39.16 billion and a PE ratio of 40.87, indicating strong growth potential.

Waste Management, Rockwell Automation, Halliburton, Fluor, Cemex, JBS, and GFL Environmental are the seven Waste Management stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Waste management stocks are shares of companies that provide services for the collection, processing, treatment, recycling and disposal of municipal, industrial and hazardous waste. These firms operate landfills, recycling facilities and treatment plants, often under long‐term municipal or commercial contracts. Investors typically view them as defensive holdings with relatively stable cash flows driven by regulatory requirements and essential environmental services. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Waste Management stocks within the last several days.

Waste Management (WM)

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.

WM stock traded down $3.56 during midday trading on Wednesday, reaching $229.42. The stock had a trading volume of 1,176,793 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,700,224. Waste Management has a 52-week low of $199.69 and a 52-week high of $242.58. The company has a current ratio of 0.86, a quick ratio of 0.82 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.51. The company's fifty day simple moving average is $230.63 and its 200 day simple moving average is $229.32. The company has a market cap of $92.42 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 34.04, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.91 and a beta of 0.64.

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Rockwell Automation (ROK)

Rockwell Automation, Inc. provides industrial automation and digital transformation solutions in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and Latin America. The company operates through three segments, Intelligent Devices, Software & Control, and Lifecycle Services. Its solutions include hardware and software products and services.

Shares of NYSE ROK traded up $8.55 during trading on Wednesday, hitting $348.30. 682,028 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 945,582. Rockwell Automation has a 12-month low of $215.00 and a 12-month high of $360.92. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.72, a quick ratio of 0.72 and a current ratio of 1.06. The company has a fifty day moving average price of $337.63 and a 200-day moving average price of $294.89. The firm has a market capitalization of $39.16 billion, a PE ratio of 40.87, a P/E/G ratio of 3.39 and a beta of 1.39.

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Halliburton (HAL)

Halliburton Company provides products and services to the energy industry worldwide. It operates through two segments, Completion and Production, and Drilling and Evaluation. The Completion and Production segment offers production enhancement services that include stimulation and sand control services; cementing services, such as well bonding and casing, and casing equipment; and completion tools that offer downhole solutions and services, including well completion products and services, intelligent well completions, and service tools, as well as liner hanger, sand control, and multilateral systems.

NYSE HAL traded up $0.13 during trading on Wednesday, hitting $21.10. The stock had a trading volume of 5,682,449 shares, compared to its average volume of 13,824,643. The company has a market capitalization of $17.99 billion, a PE ratio of 9.86, a PEG ratio of 3.55 and a beta of 1.12. The company has a quick ratio of 1.47, a current ratio of 2.00 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68. The firm has a 50 day moving average price of $21.61 and a 200 day moving average price of $22.64. Halliburton has a twelve month low of $18.72 and a twelve month high of $32.57.

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Fluor (FLR)

Fluor Corporation provides engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC); fabrication and modularization; operation and maintenance; asset integrity; and project management services worldwide. The company operates through Energy Solutions, Urban Solutions, Mission Solutions, and Other segments. The Energy Solutions segment provides solutions to the energy transition markets, including asset decarbonization, carbon capture, renewable fuels, waste-to-energy, green chemicals, hydrogen, nuclear power, and other low-carbon energy sources.

Shares of Fluor stock traded down $1.01 on Wednesday, reaching $42.46. 2,085,883 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 3,579,093. The stock's 50 day moving average price is $49.93 and its 200-day moving average price is $42.42. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.18, a current ratio of 1.62 and a quick ratio of 1.62. The company has a market cap of $6.86 billion, a P/E ratio of 1.75 and a beta of 1.43. Fluor has a 1-year low of $29.20 and a 1-year high of $60.10.

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Cemex (CX)

CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V., together with its subsidiaries, produces, markets, distributes, and sells cement, ready-mix concrete, aggregates, urbanization solutions, and other construction materials and services worldwide. The company offers gray ordinary portland, white portland, oil-well, and blended cement products; mortar; and standard ready-mix, architectural and decorative, rapid-setting, fiber-reinforced, fluid-fill, roller-compacted, self-consolidating, pervious, and antibacterial, and other concrete products.

CX traded down $0.09 on Wednesday, reaching $8.69. The company's stock had a trading volume of 5,569,730 shares, compared to its average volume of 12,917,706. The stock has a 50 day moving average of $7.50 and a two-hundred day moving average of $6.62. The company has a quick ratio of 0.61, a current ratio of 0.86 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.37. The company has a market capitalization of $12.59 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 8.51, a P/E/G ratio of 0.93 and a beta of 1.40. Cemex has a fifty-two week low of $4.89 and a fifty-two week high of $8.83.

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JBS (JBS)

JBS N.V., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a protein and food company worldwide. The company offers beef, pork, chicken, poultry, fish, and lamb products; cooked frozen meat; plant based products; and other food products. It also sells leather, leather, hygiene and cleaning products, collagen, metal packaging, biodiesel, and others, as well as wet blue leather, semi-finished, and finished leather products.

NYSE JBS traded down $0.02 on Wednesday, reaching $14.36. The stock had a trading volume of 2,936,751 shares, compared to its average volume of 4,836,016. JBS has a 12-month low of $12.83 and a 12-month high of $15.11.

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GFL Environmental (GFL)

GFL Environmental Inc. offers non-hazardous solid waste management and environmental services in Canada and the United States. It offers solid waste management, liquid waste management, and soil remediation services, including collection, transportation, transfer, recycling, and disposal services for municipal, residential, and commercial, and industrial customers.

NYSE:GFL traded down $0.01 during trading hours on Wednesday, hitting $50.47. The company's stock had a trading volume of 476,247 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,662,357. The company has a market capitalization of $18.51 billion, a PE ratio of 7.95 and a beta of 1.00. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.89, a quick ratio of 0.67 and a current ratio of 0.67. The business's 50-day moving average is $49.10 and its two-hundred day moving average is $47.97. GFL Environmental has a 52-week low of $38.78 and a 52-week high of $52.00.

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