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Waste Management Stocks To Keep An Eye On - November 5th

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Key Points

  • Waste Management (WM), GFL Environmental (GFL), and Custom Truck One Source (CTOS) were identified as waste-management stocks to watch based on recent dollar trading volume.
  • On Thursday, WM rose $2.71 to $241.20 and GFL gained $0.10 to $45.39, while CTOS fell $0.88 to $9.25.
  • WM operates waste collection, recycling, and landfill businesses; GFL provides waste and environmental services, while CTOS supplies equipment to waste management and other infrastructure industries.
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Waste Management, GFL Environmental, and Custom Truck One Source are the three Waste Management stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Waste management stocks are shares of publicly traded companies that collect, transport, process, recycle, or dispose of waste, and may provide related environmental services. For investors, they offer exposure to an industry driven by ongoing demand for waste services, though company performance can be affected by regulation, operating costs, and commodity prices. 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 WM stock traded up $2.71 during trading hours on Thursday, reaching $241.20. The company had a trading volume of 1,376,465 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,203,255. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.21, a quick ratio of 0.78 and a current ratio of 0.82. The business has a fifty day moving average price of $218.61 and a 200-day moving average price of $225.41. Waste Management has a one year low of $197.47 and a one year high of $248.13. The firm has a market cap of $95.91 billion, a PE ratio of 31.64, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.05 and a beta of 0.38.

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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.

GFL Environmental stock traded up $0.10 during midday trading on Thursday, reaching $45.39. 2,790,640 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 2,670,803. The firm has a market capitalization of $16.38 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -57.58, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.48 and a beta of 0.68. The business has a 50 day moving average of $42.99 and a two-hundred day moving average of $40.88. GFL Environmental has a 12 month low of $33.33 and a 12 month high of $46.76. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.03, a current ratio of 0.93 and a quick ratio of 0.75.

Read Our Latest Research Report on GFL

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 CTOS stock traded down $0.88 on Thursday, reaching $9.25. The stock had a trading volume of 503,306 shares, compared to its average volume of 990,460. The stock has a market cap of $2.10 billion, a P/E ratio of 71.81 and a beta of 1.46. Custom Truck One Source has a 1 year low of $5.18 and a 1 year high of $12.23. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.01, a quick ratio of 0.25 and a current ratio of 1.28. The company has a 50 day simple moving average of $9.45 and a 200 day simple moving average of $8.90.

Read Our Latest Research Report on CTOS

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