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Waste Management Stocks To Follow Now - April 14th

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Key Points

  • MarketBeat's stock screener highlights Waste Management (WM), GFL Environmental (GFL) and Custom Truck One Source (CTOS) as the three waste-management stocks to watch, noting they had the highest dollar trading volume among peers in recent days.
  • Waste-management equities are seen as relatively defensive due to steady regulated demand and recurring revenue from long-term contracts and user fees, but they face industry-specific risks like regulatory changes, landfill capacity limits, and commodity-price exposure for recyclables.
  • Company focuses differ: WM operates collection, transfer stations and landfills and captures landfill gas for renewable natural gas, GFL provides non-hazardous solid and liquid waste plus soil remediation services, and CTOS supplies specialty equipment rental, sales and aftermarket services to 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 provide waste collection, disposal, recycling and related environmental-services to municipalities, businesses and consumers. Investors view them as relatively defensive equities because they serve steady, regulated demand and often earn recurring revenue from long-term contracts and user fees, though they face industry-specific risks like regulatory changes, landfill capacity limits and commodity-price exposure for recyclables. Examples include Waste Management (WM) and Republic Services (RSG). 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.

Read Our Latest Research Report on WM

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.

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).

Read Our Latest Research Report on CTOS

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