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Best Waste Management Stocks To Watch Now - November 3rd

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Key Points

  • Waste Management, GFL Environmental, Custom Truck One Source, Concrete Pumping Holdings, and Avalon are highlighted as waste-management stocks with the sector’s highest recent dollar trading volume.
  • Waste Management is the largest company listed, with a $93.57 billion market capitalization, while GFL has reached near its 52-week high; both stocks traded slightly lower on Tuesday.
  • Custom Truck One Source, Concrete Pumping, and Avalon operate in specialized waste, infrastructure, or disposal services, but their valuations, liquidity, and financial profiles vary significantly—from Avalon’s $10 million market cap to CTOS’s elevated P/E ratio of 82.46.
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Waste Management, GFL Environmental, Custom Truck One Source, Concrete Pumping, and Avalon are the five Waste Management stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Waste management stocks are shares of publicly traded companies involved in collecting, transporting, recycling, treating, or disposing of waste. For stock market investors, they represent exposure to the waste services and environmental infrastructure sector, which may benefit from recurring demand, long-term contracts, and regulations requiring proper waste handling. 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.

Shares of Waste Management stock traded down $2.40 on Tuesday, reaching $235.31. The stock had a trading volume of 828,160 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,203,156. The business's 50 day moving average is $218.13 and its two-hundred day moving average is $225.24. The company has a current ratio of 0.82, a quick ratio of 0.87 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.21. Waste Management has a 1 year low of $197.46 and a 1 year high of $248.13. The company has a market cap of $93.57 billion, a P/E ratio of 30.90, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.88 and a beta of 0.42.

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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.

Shares of GFL stock traded down $0.07 during trading on Tuesday, hitting $45.91. The company had a trading volume of 861,962 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,648,014. The stock's 50-day moving average is $42.81 and its two-hundred day moving average is $40.85. The stock has a market capitalization of $16.57 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -58.09, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.22 and a beta of 0.72. The company has a quick ratio of 0.75, a current ratio of 0.75 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.34. GFL Environmental has a 52 week low of $33.33 and a 52 week high of $46.76.

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Custom Truck One Source (CTOS)

Custom Truck One Source, Inc. provides specialty equipment rental and sale services to the electric utility transmission and distribution, telecommunications, rail, forestry, waste management, and other infrastructure-related industries in the United States and Canada. The company operates through three segments: Equipment Rental Solutions (ERS), Truck and Equipment Sales (TES), and Aftermarket Parts and Services (APS).

Shares of NYSE CTOS traded up $0.12 during mid-day trading on Tuesday, reaching $10.75. 299,601 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 987,286. The company has a quick ratio of 0.29, a current ratio of 1.28 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.01. The company's 50 day moving average price is $9.43 and its 200 day moving average price is $8.86. Custom Truck One Source has a 52 week low of $5.18 and a 52 week high of $12.23. The stock has a market capitalization of $2.44 billion, a PE ratio of 82.46 and a beta of 1.43.

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Concrete Pumping (BBCP)

Concrete Pumping Holdings, Inc. provides concrete pumping and waste management services in the United States and the United Kingdom. The company offers concrete pumping services to general contractors and concrete finishing companies in the commercial, infrastructure, and residential sectors under the Brundage-Bone and Capital Pumping brands; and industrial cleanup and containment services primarily to customers in the construction industry under the Eco-Pan brand.

NASDAQ BBCP traded up $0.12 on Tuesday, reaching $10.58. 57,616 shares of the company's stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 194,919. Concrete Pumping has a 12 month low of $5.55 and a 12 month high of $12.19. The stock has a market cap of $533.16 million, a PE ratio of 66.13 and a beta of 0.88. The stock has a 50-day simple moving average of $9.67 and a 200 day simple moving average of $8.62. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.56, a current ratio of 1.71 and a quick ratio of 1.60.

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Avalon (AWX)

Avalon Holdings Corporation provides waste management services to industrial, commercial, municipal, and governmental customers in the United States. It operates in Waste Management Services, and Golf and Related Operations segments. The Waste Management Services segment offers hazardous and nonhazardous waste disposal brokerage and management services; captive landfill management services; and turnkey services, including daily operations, facilities management, and management reporting.

NYSE:AWX traded up $0.05 during trading hours on Tuesday, reaching $2.58. The company's stock had a trading volume of 2,571 shares, compared to its average volume of 17,688. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average of $2.59 and a 200-day simple moving average of $2.59. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.87, a quick ratio of 0.88 and a current ratio of 0.97. Avalon has a 1 year low of $2.43 and a 1 year high of $3.00. The firm has a market capitalization of $10.06 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 10.32 and a beta of 0.59.

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