WCN · Waste Connections, Inc.
$186.60
+0.93% last session
End-of-day data · close of 2026-10-23
Market cap
$47B
Enterprise value
$56B
Trailing P/E
41.8
Forward P/E
30.2
Dividend yield
1.0%
Beta
—
Avg volume
1M
Employees
24K
Daily Change %
0.93%
5 Days Change
10.11%
10 Days Change
20.31%
30 Days Change
18.96%
60 Days Change
9.42%
Month to Day Change
22.71%
Year to Day Change
6.11%
Analyst Outlook
Analyst estimates change daily — follow the shifts on the Estimate Trends page.
Technical Analysis
Analyst sentiment over time — WCN
Rec Mean (blue, left — higher = more bullish) vs. price targets (right).
Investment Bank Ratings as of 2026-10-23
Latest call per bank · past 12 months
Citigroup
Neutral$192
+2.9% vs priceMorgan Stanley
Overweight$200
+7.2% vs priceRBC Capital
Outperform$221
+18.4% vs priceWells Fargo
Overweight$211
+13.1% vs priceBarclays
Equal-Weight$189
+1.3% vs priceJP Morgan
Overweight$180
-3.5% vs priceUBS
Buy$200
+7.2% vs priceGoldman Sachs
Buy$202
+8.3% vs priceRecent rating actions
| Date | Firm | Action | Rating | Price target |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | CIBC | Maintains | Outperformer | $184 → $207 |
| 2026-10-23 | Citigroup | Maintains | Neutral | $175 → $192 |
| 2026-10-23 | Morgan Stanley | Maintains | Overweight | $195 → $200 |
| 2026-10-23 | Oppenheimer | Maintains | Outperform | $193 → $200 |
| 2026-10-23 | RBC Capital | Maintains | Outperform | $218 → $221 |
| 2026-10-23 | Wells Fargo | Maintains | Overweight | $187 → $211 |
| 2026-10-23 | Barclays | Maintains | Equal-Weight | $187 → $189 |
| 2026-10-23 | TD Cowen | Maintains | Buy | $210 → $215 |
Ratings and price targets are the published opinions of the issuing banks, compiled from Yahoo Finance rating actions — not investment advice.
Signal Summary as of 2026-10-23
- bearish: RSI (14): RSI is 81 — overbought territory; the recent run-up may be due for a pause.
- bullish: Price vs 50-day MA: Trading 15.4% above the 50-day MA ($161.71).
- bullish: Price vs 200-day MA: Trading 14.8% above the 200-day MA ($162.58).
- bearish: MA cross: The 50-day MA sits below the 200-day MA (death-cross regime) — the longer-term trend points down.
- bullish: MACD (12,26,9): MACD histogram is positive (+3.50) — short-term momentum is improving.
- bullish: 52-week range: Price is within 5% of the 52-week high ($186.60).
WCN Price Chart
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Fundamentals
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. In addition, it provides E&P waste treatment, recovery, and disposal services for waste created through the initial drilling and completion of an oil or natural gas well, such as drilling fluids, drill cuttings, completion fluids, and flowback water; production wastes and produced water during a well's operating life; contaminated soils that require treatment during site reclamation; and substances, which require clean-up after a spill, reserve pit clean-up, or pipeline rupture. Waste Connections, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is based in Woodbridge, Canada.
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