Waste Management Inc. (WM)
WM · Industrials ·
United States
Waste Management Inc. (WM) is a company in the Industrials sector, based in United States. The stock is held in 19 ETFs we track – with its largest weight of 0.96 % in XDEB (msci-world-minimum-volatility). Anyone holding one of these ETFs also owns a small indirect stake in Waste Management.
Above-average ETF coverage: 19 of the 95 ETFs we cover hold Waste Management, spread across 8 indices. That puts the stock in more ETFs than 80.8 % of the 4,334 stocks we cover.
Price chart
Performance
| Year to date | -2.6 % | 1 year | +0.1 % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 month | -4.5 % | 3 months | -0.9 % |
| Calendar year 2025 | +8.9 % |
Measured in euros, Waste Management returned -0.8 % year to date and +2.4 % 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 13.2 % below the highest close since Aug 12, 2024, reached on Mar 9, 2026. Over the last 252 trading days, on days when the S&P 500 rose or fell 1 %, Waste Management moved on average 0.36 % in the opposite direction. The correlation of -0.23 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Republic Services Inc. | +0.84 | |
| Waste Connections Inc. | +0.80 | |
| Altria Group Inc. | +0.62 | |
| Cintas Corporation | +0.62 | |
| Consolidated Edison Inc. | +0.62 | |
| Atmos Energy Corporation | +0.61 | |
| S&P 500 Informationstechnologie | -0.64 | |
| Teradyne Inc. | -0.63 | |
| Western Digital Corporation | -0.62 |
Key financials
Latest reported fiscal year (FY2025, period end 2025-12-31) as filed with the SEC.
| Fiscal year | Revenue | Net income | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 20.4 | 2.3 | 11.3 % |
| FY2024 | 22.1 | 2.7 | 12.4 % |
| FY2025 | 25.2 | 2.7 | 10.7 % |
Held in these ETFs
| ETF | Index | Weight | per €1,000 in the ETF |
|---|---|---|---|
| XDEB | msci-world-minimum-volatility | 0.96 % | €9.60 |
| XDWI / XMIW | msci-world-industrials | 0.87 % | €8.70 |
| WIND | msci-world-industrials | 0.87 % | €8.70 |
| XD9U / XD9D | msci-usa | 0.13 % | €1.30 |
| SPYL / SPY5 | sp500 | 0.12 % | €1.20 |
| SXR8 | sp500 | 0.12 % | €1.20 |
| EUNL | msci-world | 0.10 % | €1.00 |
| XDWD / XDWL | msci-world | 0.10 % | €1.00 |
| SWWD | msci-world | 0.09 % | €0.90 |
| WIMI | msci-world-imi | 0.09 % | €0.90 |
| SPPW | msci-world | 0.09 % | €0.90 |
| SPYI / SPSA | msci-acwi-imi | 0.08 % | €0.80 |
| SPYY | msci-acwi | 0.08 % | €0.80 |
| IUSQ | msci-acwi | 0.08 % | €0.80 |
The last column turns the weight into euros: this much of €1,000 invested in one of these funds is allocated to Waste Management as of the fund's latest holdings list.
Weight in EUNL since 2019
In EUNL, a fund tracking the MSCI World, Waste Management had a weight of 0.12 % on Sep 30, 2019 and 0.10 % on Sep 16, 2026. Its share peaked at 0.15 % 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 Management 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 Management — the figure counts the ETFs holding both.
General Dynamics CorporationGD · 19 shared ETFs
Northrop Grumman Corp.NOC · 19 shared ETFs
Republic Services Inc.RSG · 19 shared ETFs · r +0.84
RTX CorporationRTX · 19 shared ETFs
Uber Technologies Inc.UBER · 19 shared ETFs
Lockheed Martin CorporationLMT · 19 shared ETFs
Rollins Inc.ROL · 19 shared ETFs
AMETEK Inc.AME · 18 shared ETFs
Key figures side by side
| Stock | 1 year | Volatility p.a. | Net margin | Revenue growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waste Management | +0.1 % | 19.1 % | 10.7 % | +14.2 % |
| General Dynamics Corporation | +10.3 % | 22.0 % | 8.0 % | +10.1 % |
| Northrop Grumman | -8.4 % | 26.5 % | 10.0 % | +2.2 % |
| Republic Services | -2.5 % | 18.5 % | 12.9 % | +3.5 % |
| RTX Corporation | +24.1 % | 25.5 % | 7.6 % | +9.7 % |
| Uber Technologies | -27.5 % | 37.9 % | 19.3 % | +18.3 % |
| Lockheed Martin Corporation | +13.3 % | 27.1 % | 6.7 % | +5.6 % |
| Rollins | -39.3 % | 24.1 % | 14.0 % | +11.0 % |
| AMETEK | +24.0 % | 22.9 % | 20.0 % | +6.6 % |
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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