Waste Connections Inc (NYSE:WCN) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.15M but it saw 2294615 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 50.56B USD, the company’s current market price of $195.68 came falling about -1.12 while comparing to the previous closing price of $197.90. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $201.66 and as low as $160.34. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $194.01 while lowest mark touched by it was $198.75.
Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Waste Connections Inc (WCN) gives us an average price of $193.75, while its current price level is -2.97% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 22.04% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $190.45 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $183.56. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.79% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 2.56%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 54.78 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.
Over the week, WCN’s stock price is moving -0.16% down while it is 2.49% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 14.05% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 18.58%.
The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Apr-22, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 1.33 while estimate for next year EPS is 5.26. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $2.49B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $9.52B and seeing the company making $10.15B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $2.41B for current-quarter revenue.
Currently, Waste Connections Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 258.02M with 0.20% of that held by the insiders while 89.04% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 3.81% and return on equity (ROE) at 7.94%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 82.00 while having a 32.63 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.63. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 6.42 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 5.67. Its return on asset (ROA) is 3.24% on average.
