Waste Connections Inc. (WCN)
WCN · Industrials ·
United States
Waste Connections Inc. (WCN) is a company in the Industrials sector, based in United States. The stock is held in 16 ETFs we track – with its largest weight of 0.60 % in XDEB (msci-world-minimum-volatility). Anyone holding one of these ETFs also owns a small indirect stake in Waste Connections.
Above-average ETF coverage: 16 of the 95 ETFs we cover hold Waste Connections, spread across 7 indices. That puts the stock in more ETFs than 76.4 % of the 4,334 stocks we cover.
Price chart
Performance
| Year to date | -10.8 % | 1 year | -9.8 % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 month | -5.2 % | 3 months | +0.9 % |
| Calendar year 2025 | +2.2 % |
Measured in euros, Waste Connections returned -9.1 % year to date and -7.7 % over one year. The gap to the dollar figures above comes from the exchange rate alone: each daily price is converted at the ECB euro reference rate for the same day.
Risk metrics
The close on Sep 16, 2026 was 21.7 % below the highest close since Aug 12, 2024, reached on Apr 3, 2025. Over the last 252 trading days, on days when the S&P 500 rose or fell 1 %, Waste Connections moved on average 0.12 % in the opposite direction. The correlation of -0.07 shows how reliable that average is: the broad market explained only a small share of the daily moves.
Correlated with
The strongest co-movers on top, the most inverse below. Low or negative values improve portfolio diversification.
| Instrument | r | −1 … +1 |
|---|---|---|
| Waste Management Inc. | +0.80 | |
| Republic Services Inc. | +0.78 | |
| Brown & Brown Inc. | +0.60 | |
| VICI Properties Inc | +0.58 | |
| Cintas Corporation | +0.56 | |
| Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. | +0.56 | |
| Micron Technology Inc. | -0.58 | |
| S&P 500 Informationstechnologie | -0.56 | |
| Western Digital Corporation | -0.56 |
Key financials
Latest reported fiscal year (FY2025, period end 2025-12-31) as filed with the SEC.
| Fiscal year | Revenue | Net income | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 8.0 | 0.8 | 9.5 % |
| FY2024 | 8.9 | 0.6 | 6.9 % |
| FY2025 | 9.5 | 1.1 | 11.4 % |
Held in these ETFs
| ETF | Index | Weight | per €1,000 in the ETF |
|---|---|---|---|
| XDEB | msci-world-minimum-volatility | 0.60 % | €6.00 |
| XDWI / XMIW | msci-world-industrials | 0.40 % | €4.00 |
| WIND | msci-world-industrials | 0.40 % | €4.00 |
| XD9U / XD9D | msci-usa | 0.06 % | €0.60 |
| SWWD | msci-world | 0.04 % | €0.40 |
| WIMI | msci-world-imi | 0.04 % | €0.40 |
| SPYY | msci-acwi | 0.04 % | €0.40 |
| EUNL | msci-world | 0.04 % | €0.40 |
| IUSQ | msci-acwi | 0.04 % | €0.40 |
| SPPW | msci-world | 0.04 % | €0.40 |
| XDWD / XDWL | msci-world | 0.04 % | €0.40 |
| SPYI / SPSA | msci-acwi-imi | 0.01 % | €0.10 |
The last column turns the weight into euros: this much of €1,000 invested in one of these funds is allocated to Waste Connections as of the fund's latest holdings list.
Weight in EUNL since 2019
In EUNL, a fund tracking the MSCI World, Waste Connections had a weight of 0.06 % on Sep 30, 2019 and 0.04 % on Sep 16, 2026. Its share peaked at 0.08 % on Sep 30, 2022. The weight rises and falls with the stock's price relative to the other index members, and it also shifts when the index provider changes the composition.
How much Waste Connections Inc. overlaps with other holdings in a portfolio is shown by the Portfolio X-Ray and the ETF overlap check.
Stocks with similar ETF exposure
Names that reach a portfolio through largely the same funds as Waste Connections — the figure counts the ETFs holding both.
FTAI Aviation Ltd.FTAI · 15 shared ETFs- HEICO Corporation Class AHEI A · 15 shared ETFs
- MasTec Inc.MTZ · 15 shared ETFs
- Sunbelt Rentals Holdings IncSUNB · 15 shared ETFs
XPO Inc.XPO · 15 shared ETFs- ATI IncATI · 15 shared ETFs
Bloom Energy Corporation Class ABE · 15 shared ETFs- Carpenter Technology CorporationCRS · 15 shared ETFs
Key figures side by side
| Stock | 1 year | Volatility p.a. | Net margin | Revenue growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waste Connections | -9.8 % | 20.4 % | 11.4 % | +6.1 % |
| FTAI Aviation | +9.3 % | 72.3 % | – | +44.5 % |
| HEICO Corporation | -12.9 % | 30.5 % | – | – |
| MasTec | +17.5 % | 47.9 % | 2.8 % | +16.2 % |
| Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc | – | 47.5 % | – | +4.4 % |
| XPO | +28.8 % | 46.0 % | 3.9 % | +1.1 % |
| ATI Inc | +138.6 % | 44.5 % | 8.8 % | +5.2 % |
| Bloom Energy Corporation | +268.4 % | 106.2 % | -15.1 % | +38.9 % |
| Carpenter Technology Corporation | +70.7 % | 47.8 % | 13.1 % | +4.3 % |
Return and volatility from our daily closing prices in US dollars; margin and growth from the latest SEC annual filing. Fiscal years do not all end on the same date.
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