Waste Connections, Inc.

WCN stock score: 60/100

$169.48 · +2.29% · Scored Oct 20, 2026

Technical
62
Fundamental
58
News
42

The reading

Waste Connections (WCN) scores 60 out of 100, which reads neutral, higher than 79% of Industrials stocks and 75% of the 4,166 US stocks we score.

The composite is technicals and fundamentals weighted equally: technicals read 62, fundamentals 58.

Among the fundamentals, Inventory Turnover at 100 and Earnings Growth (Annual) at 99 score highest, while Fair Value at 0 weighs the most against it.

On the daily chart, trend-following indicators average 70 and contrarian oscillators 23 — a split worth reading before trusting the technical total.

News sentiment is neutral at 42; it is shown, not counted in the composite.

Since Jul 25, 2026 the composite has ranged from 49 to 72, and it is down 12 points over the period.

What’s driving the score

The strongest and weakest of the scorers that count toward WCN’s composite. Each returns 0–100, higher is more bullish — including metrics where low is good, like P/E.

Fundamental

58

Pulling it up

  • Inventory Turnover100

    Inventory turnover is how many times a year a company sells through its inventory.

  • Earnings Growth (Annual)99

    Annual earnings growth tracks year-over-year profit expansion.

  • EBITDA Margins98

    EBITDA margins measure operating profitability before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization.

Holding it back

  • Fair Value0

    Fair value score synthesizes multiple valuation methods (DCF, P/E, P/B, P/S) to estimate intrinsic worth.

  • Price to Book Ratio5

    Price-to-Book ratio compares market value to book value.

  • Trailing P/E5

    Trailing P/E ratio uses the last 12 months of actual earnings.

41 weighted scorers.

Technical · daily

63

Pulling it up

  • Parabolic SAR (PSAR)100

    Parabolic SAR (Stop and Reverse) provides trailing stop levels that follow price trends.

  • VWAP100

    Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) shows the average price weighted by volume.

  • Stochastic (14)96

    Stochastic Oscillator (14-period) compares the current price to its range over 14 periods.

Holding it back

  • Bollinger Bands (20)0

    Bollinger Bands (20-period) plot standard deviations above and below a moving average.

  • Williams %R (28)0

    Williams %R (28-period) places the close within the last 28 periods' high-low range.

  • Williams %R (14)0

    Williams %R (14-period) measures where the current price sits within the recent high-low range.

62 weighted scorers; 3 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

News · shown, not counted

Global News
42

Technical score by timeframe

ChartScoreWeight
Hourly571
Daily633
Weekly602
Monthly632
Quarterly632

Composite score, last 90 days

05010060Jul 25, 2026Oct 20, 2026Jul 25, 2026: 72Jul 26, 2026: 72Jul 27, 2026: 71Jul 28, 2026: 71Jul 29, 2026: 72Jul 30, 2026: 70Jul 31, 2026: 71Aug 2, 2026: 55Aug 3, 2026: 55Aug 5, 2026: 51Aug 6, 2026: 53Aug 7, 2026: 56Aug 8, 2026: 56Aug 9, 2026: 57Aug 10, 2026: 55Aug 11, 2026: 56Aug 12, 2026: 55Aug 13, 2026: 55Aug 14, 2026: 56Aug 15, 2026: 56Aug 16, 2026: 56Aug 17, 2026: 54Aug 18, 2026: 57Aug 19, 2026: 59Aug 20, 2026: 58Aug 22, 2026: 59Aug 23, 2026: 59Aug 24, 2026: 59Aug 25, 2026: 56Aug 26, 2026: 56Aug 27, 2026: 55Aug 28, 2026: 56Aug 29, 2026: 56Aug 30, 2026: 55Aug 31, 2026: 55Sep 1, 2026: 58Sep 2, 2026: 56Sep 3, 2026: 55Sep 4, 2026: 55Sep 5, 2026: 54Sep 6, 2026: 54Sep 7, 2026: 54Sep 8, 2026: 55Sep 9, 2026: 52Sep 10, 2026: 51Sep 11, 2026: 52Sep 12, 2026: 52Sep 13, 2026: 52Sep 14, 2026: 53Sep 15, 2026: 53Sep 16, 2026: 50Sep 17, 2026: 50Sep 18, 2026: 52Sep 19, 2026: 51Sep 20, 2026: 51Sep 21, 2026: 51Sep 22, 2026: 51Sep 23, 2026: 53Sep 24, 2026: 53Sep 25, 2026: 52Sep 26, 2026: 51Sep 27, 2026: 52Sep 28, 2026: 52Sep 29, 2026: 52Sep 30, 2026: 50Oct 1, 2026: 49Oct 2, 2026: 51Oct 3, 2026: 50Oct 4, 2026: 50Oct 5, 2026: 51Oct 6, 2026: 52Oct 7, 2026: 53Oct 8, 2026: 52Oct 9, 2026: 51Oct 10, 2026: 51Oct 11, 2026: 51Oct 12, 2026: 51Oct 13, 2026: 52Oct 14, 2026: 53Oct 15, 2026: 59Oct 16, 2026: 60Oct 17, 2026: 60Oct 18, 2026: 60Oct 19, 2026: 59Oct 20, 2026: 60
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Key facts

Market cap
$42.6B
Sector
Industrials
Industry
Waste Management
Beta
0.48
Risk grade (1–10)
1
Next earnings
Oct 21, 2026

Waste Management peers

CompanyMarket capScore
WM Waste Management$92.6B62
RSG Republic Services$71.3B63
CLH Clean Harbors$16.7B61
GFL GFL Environmental$16.0B62
CWST Casella Waste Systems$5.9B52

Questions

What is WCN's stock score today?

WCN scores 60/100 (Neutral) as of Oct 20, 2026: technical 62, fundamental 58, and news sentiment 42, which is shown but not counted. Scores are recomputed every night.

Is WCN a buy?

The score is not a buy or sell recommendation. A 60 says the technical and fundamental signals we measure lean neutral today, relative to every other stock scored the same way. Use the breakdown above to see why, and treat it as a starting point for your own research.

How is the WCN score calculated?

103 weighted scorers feed it today: 41 fundamental, scored against Industrials ranges, and 62 technical on the daily chart, with 5 timeframes blended into the technical total. Every scorer returns 0–100; missing data is left out, never counted as zero.

Scores are information, not investment advice. Computed from Yahoo Finance, Finnhub and Alpha Vantage data; technical indicators via TA-Lib. Past scores do not predict future returns.