Waste Connections, Inc. (WCN) Stock Analysis
Industrials · Waste Management
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... Read more
TrendMatrix rates Waste Connections, Inc. (WCN) as Hold with moderate confidence. The stock trades at $157.06 with +7.7% upside to the $169.08 price target. Overall score: 4.9/10 across 10 analysis dimensions. Reward/risk ratio: 1.8:1.
Passes 2/5 gates (clean insider activity, no SEC red flags). Fails on weak momentum and favorable risk/reward ratio and death cross (50MA < 200MA). Suitability: moderate.
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TrendMatrix rates Waste Connections, Inc. (WCN) as Hold with moderate confidence. Score 4.9/10.
Take-profit target: $169.08 (+7.7% upside). Reward/risk ratio: 1.8:1. Stop-loss: $150.25.
Thin upside margin: 7.7%; V7 low-quality RISK_OFF penalty: -0.5 (Q=5.4); Leverage penalty (D/E 1.1): -0.5.
Waste Connections, Inc. trades at a P/E of 37.8 (forward 25.5). TrendMatrix value score: 5.1/10. Verdict: Hold.
20 analysts cover WCN with a consensus score of 4.2/5. Average price target: $199.
What does Waste Connections, Inc. do?Waste Connections, Inc. provides non-hazardous waste collection, transfer, and disposal services in the United States...
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.