
Waste Management, Halliburton, Rockwell Automation, JBS, and Cemex are the five Waste Management stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Waste management stocks are equity shares of companies that collect, transport, process, recycle and dispose of municipal, industrial or hazardous waste. They offer investors exposure to a defensive, recession-resistant sector characterized by stable, recurring revenues and steady cash flows underpinned by regulatory requirements and ongoing environmental service needs. Major publicly traded names include Waste Management, Inc. and Republic 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.
Shares of WM traded up $1.65 during trading hours on Wednesday, hitting $226.52. The company's stock had a trading volume of 979,779 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,626,202. The company has a market cap of $91.15 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 34.17, a PEG ratio of 3.00 and a beta of 0.64. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.65, a current ratio of 0.83 and a quick ratio of 0.79. The business has a 50 day simple moving average of $232.75 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $225.29. Waste Management has a 52-week low of $196.59 and a 52-week high of $242.58.
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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.
Halliburton stock traded down $0.12 during mid-day trading on Wednesday, hitting $22.04. 7,422,746 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 13,601,348. Halliburton has a one year low of $18.72 and a one year high of $37.08. The stock has a market cap of $18.95 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 9.22, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.28 and a beta of 1.13. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.69, a quick ratio of 1.46 and a current ratio of 1.98. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $20.85 and a 200-day moving average price of $23.68.
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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.
Rockwell Automation stock traded up $2.09 during mid-day trading on Wednesday, reaching $340.24. 295,064 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 863,122. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.71, a current ratio of 1.05 and a quick ratio of 0.72. The firm has a market capitalization of $38.35 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 42.85, a P/E/G ratio of 3.81 and a beta of 1.38. The firm's 50 day moving average price is $311.69 and its 200 day moving average price is $284.03. Rockwell Automation has a 52-week low of $215.00 and a 52-week high of $348.43.
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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.
Shares of JBS stock traded down $0.24 on Wednesday, reaching $13.22. The company's stock had a trading volume of 4,660,822 shares, compared to its average volume of 6,794,300. JBS has a 1 year low of $13.02 and a 1 year high of $15.11.
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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.
Shares of CX stock traded up $0.21 during trading hours on Wednesday, reaching $7.42. 7,673,245 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 12,058,267. The company has a current ratio of 0.85, a quick ratio of 0.60 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.44. Cemex has a 1 year low of $4.89 and a 1 year high of $7.43. The stock has a market cap of $10.74 billion, a PE ratio of 7.72, a PEG ratio of 1.18 and a beta of 1.38. The stock's fifty day moving average price is $6.82 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $6.19.
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