Waste Management (WM) closed at $225.25 on Aug 4, 2026, down 0.5% on the day. The stock is down 1.6% over the past month, down 0.7% over three months, up 3.4% year to date and down 0.0% over the past year. It trades 8.9% below its 52-week high of $247.15 and 17.5% above its 52-week low of $191.77. The close sits below its 50-day moving average ($225.45) and above its 200-day moving average ($221.94).
WM is scheduled to report earnings on Oct 27, 2026, after market close. Over its last 8 reports the stock moved an average of 3.2% on the first trading day after earnings, beating the options-implied move in 2 of 8.
WM options were pricing 26% at-the-money implied volatility on Oct 22, 2026, an IV rank of 74 over the past year.
Waste Management is scheduled to report on Oct 27, 2026, after market close.
Over the last 8 reports, WM moved an average of 3.2% on the first trading day after earnings. The move beat the options-implied move in 2 of 8 reports.
Yes — the Aug 4, 2026 close of $225.25 is 1.5% above the 200-day average of $221.94.
WM closed 8.9% below its 52-week high of $247.15.
Waste Management, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides environmental solutions to residential, commercial, industrial, and municipal customers in the United States, Canada, Western Europe, and internationally. It offers collection services, including picking up and transporting waste and recyclable materials from where it was generated to a transfer station, recovery facility, or disposal site; owns and operates transfer stations; and owns, develops, and operates landfill gas-to-energy facilities that produce renewable electricity and renewable natural gas. It also operates materials processing and commodities recycling services, including cardboard, paper, glass, metals, plastics, construction and demolition materials, and other recycling commodities are recovered for resale or redirected for other purposes; markets and resells recycling commodities; recycling brokerage services, such as managing the marketing of recyclable materials for third parties; and other strategic business solutions. In addition, the company collects recyclable food and yard waste, as well as markets and sells mulch, compost, soil amendments, and renewable energy; offers remediation and construction, and industrial waste services; and manages and markets fly ash. Further, it provides Regulated Waste and Compliance Services (RWCS), which offers compliance programs, as well as collection, processing, and disposal of regulated and specialized waste, including medical, pharmaceutical, and hazardous waste; and Secure Information Destruction (SID) services that include the collection of personal and confidential information for secure destruction and recycling of sorted office paper. The company was formerly known as USA Waste Services, Inc. and changed its name to Waste Management, Inc. in 1998. Waste Management, Inc. was founded in 1968 and is based in Houston, Texas.
