Waste Connections, Inc. (WCN) Stock Analysis
A live, multi-source view of Waste Connections, Inc. (WCN): real-time price, technical indicators, Wall Street analyst consensus, recent news sentiment and social buzz — aggregated into one place so you can size up the stock at a glance.
About Waste Connections, Inc.
Waste Connections, Inc. provides non-hazardous waste collection, transfer, and disposal services in the United States and Canada. It offers collection services to residential, commercial, municipal, industrial, and exploration and production (E&P) customers; landfill disposal services; and recycling services for various recyclable materials, including compost, cardboard, mixed paper, plastic containers, glass bottles, and ferrous and aluminum metals. The company owns and operates transfer stations that receive, compact, and/or load waste to be transported to landfills or treatment facilities through truck, rail, or barge; develops, owns, and operates projects or the beneficial reuse of landfill gas through landfill network; and intermodal services for the movement of cargo and solid waste containers.
Sector: Industrials · Industry: Waste Management · Canada · 24,214 employees · wasteconnections.com
Key statistics · as of 2026-09-06
As of 2026-09-06, Waste Connections, Inc. (WCN) had a market capitalization of $41.48B, a trailing P/E of 39.8 (forward 26.6), a dividend yield of 0.85% and a beta of 0.47; the shares traded in a 52-week range of $146.89 – $179.74 (-7.6% over the year).
- Market cap
- $41.48B
- Enterprise value
- $51.09B
- Trailing P/E
- 39.8
- Forward P/E
- 26.6
- PEG ratio
- 2.36
- Price / book
- 5.25
- EPS (trailing)
- $4.14
- EPS (forward)
- $6.21
- Dividend yield
- 0.85%
- Payout ratio
- 33.0%
- Ex-dividend date
- 2026-08-06
- 52-week range
- $146.89 – $179.74
- 52-week change
- -7.6%
- Beta
- 0.47
- Average volume
- 1.4M
- Shares outstanding
- 251.6M
- Short % of float
- 1.68%
- Profit margin
- 10.9%
Fundamental figures are recorded once every few days, dated above; they are not live and can differ from the interactive tiles.
Last universe scan · 2026-09-11
In RapidTradeView’s 2026-09-11 scan of the US universe, Waste Connections, Inc. (WCN) last closed at $159.44 (the last completed close before that scan).
Technicals at the scan: RSI 34 (neutral territory), price -3.7% versus its 20-day average, 20-day versus 50-day average spread -1.2%, MACD histogram -0.67.
Sentiment inputs: StockTwits 100% bullish; analyst consensus score 77/100.
Next scheduled company event: in 39 days from the scan date.
Scan values are recorded once per trading day and are not live quotes; the interactive tiles above update in real time.
Smart Money · last 90 days
Members of Congress disclosed 0 buys and 0 sells of WCN; corporate insiders filed 0 buys and 6 sells (4 distinct filers, latest disclosure 2026-08-21). Filings arrive days to weeks after the trade and are not a live signal. Most active filers: Iii Robert Nielsen (0B/2S), Robert Michael Cloninger (0B/2S), Philip Rivard (0B/1S), Susan Netherton (0B/1S). Who is trading what
RapidTradeView pick record
WCN has not appeared in the daily picks yet. Full scoreboard
What this page covers
RapidTradeView pulls Waste Connections, Inc. (WCN) data from multiple independent sources and combines it into a single dashboard. Below the summary you’ll find live, interactive tiles for each of the following:
- Price & chart — real-time quote with pre/post-market moves and a line or candlestick chart.
- Technical indicators — RSI, MACD, moving averages, Bollinger Bands, volume and support/resistance, distilled into one overall signal.
- Analyst consensus — the buy/hold/sell breakdown and price targets published by Wall Street analysts.
- News sentiment — recent headlines, each scored for tone so the prevailing narrative is obvious.
- Earnings — current EPS, year-over-year change and the next scheduled earnings date.
- Social buzz — Reddit mention volume and StockTwits sentiment for the retail-trader angle.
How to read the signals
No single indicator tells the whole story. A bullish technical reading paired with a cautious analyst consensus, or strong social buzz against weak earnings, is exactly the kind of tension this view is built to surface. RapidTradeView’s signals are generated by deterministic, statistical models — they describe what the data is doing, they are not personalised recommendations to buy or sell WCN.
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