Waste Connections (WCN) Stock Price, News & Analysis

17 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Waste Connections in the last year. There are currently 5 hold ratings, 11 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" WCN shares.
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17 brokerages have issued 12-month price targets for Waste Connections' stock. Their WCN share price targets range from $152.00 to $217.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $177.69 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 7.2% from the stock's current price.
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Waste Connections' stock was trading at $149.27 at the start of the year. Since then, WCN stock has increased by 11.1% and is now trading at $165.79.
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Waste Connections saw a drop in short interest in the month of March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,270,000 shares, a drop of 24.4% from the February 29th total of 1,680,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 920,900 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.4 days. Currently, 0.5% of the company's shares are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 24th 2024.
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Waste Connections will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, April 25th at 8:30 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at 412-317-0088 with passcode "4074999".

Waste Connections, Inc. (NYSE:WCN) announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, February, 13th. The business services provider reported $1.11 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.08 by $0.03. The business services provider earned $2.04 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.04 billion. Waste Connections had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 14.42% and a net margin of 9.51%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 8.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $0.89 EPS.

Waste Connections declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, February 13th. Investors of record on Wednesday, February 28th will be paid a dividend of $0.285 per share on Wednesday, March 13th. This represents a $1.14 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.69%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, February 27th.
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Waste Connections (NYSE:WCN) pays an annual dividend of $1.14 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.68%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 7 consecutive years, indicating the company has a new, but growing committment to grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 38.51%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, WCN will have a dividend payout ratio of 20.69% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Waste Connections (NYSE:WCN) stock in their portfolio include TCW Transform Supply Chain ETF (SUPP), Motley Fool Global Opportunities ETF (TMFG), Gabelli Love Our Planet & People ETF (LOPP), Neuberger Berman Carbon Transition & Infrastructure ETF (NBCT), FlexShares STOXX Global Broad Infrastructure Index Fund (NFRA), iShares MSCI USA Min Vol Factor ETF (USMV), Putnam Focused Large Cap Growth ETF (PGRO) and Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF (VOT).

Shares of Waste Connections split before market open on Monday, June 19th 2017. The 3-2 split was announced on Wednesday, April 26th 2017. The newly created shares were distributed to shareholders after the closing bell on Friday, June 16th 2017. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 150 shares after the split.

Waste Connections issued an update on its first quarter 2024 earnings guidance on Friday, February, 16th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.1 billion-$2.1 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.1 billion.

92 employees have rated Waste Connections Chief Executive Officer Worthing Jackman on Glassdoor.com. Worthing Jackman has an approval rating of 95% among the company's employees. This puts Worthing Jackman in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Waste Connections investors own include Hawkins (HWKN), Waste Management (WM), Ingersoll Rand (IR), Xtrackers California Municipal Bond ETF (CA), Alibaba Group (BABA), BlackRock (BLK), Visa (V), Home Depot (HD), Micron Technology (MU).

Waste Connections' stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Douglas Lane & Associates LLC (0.03%), Perpetual Ltd (0.02%), Massmutual Trust Co. FSB ADV (0.02%), Contravisory Investment Management Inc. (0.02%), Appleton Partners Inc. MA (0.02%) and Wealthcare Advisory Partners LLC (0.01%). Insiders that own company stock include Andrea E Bertone, Brian Harris, David Eddie, Eric Hansen, James Little, Jason Craft, Patrick James Shea, Philip Rivard, Robert Michael Cloninger, Susan Netherton and William J Razzouk.
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Shares of WCN stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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