Waste Connections Inc (NYSE: WCN) is 1.28% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $169.36 and a high of $201.66 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The WCN stock was last observed hovering at around $183.62 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.78%.
Currently trading at $182.84, the stock is -0.86% and -3.52% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.35 million and changing -0.42% at the moment leaves the stock -1.75% off its SMA200. WCN registered 6.56% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 3.48%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $190.0696 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $186.05835.
The stock witnessed a -4.11% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -6.61%, and is 0.42% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 1.54% over the week and 1.67% over the month.
Waste Connections Inc (WCN) has around 23854 employees, a market worth around $47.24B and $9.08B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 75.27 and Fwd P/E is 30.86. Profit margin for the company is 6.93%. Distance from 52-week low is 7.96% and -9.33% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (3.77%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 8.46% this year
1117.0 institutions hold shares in Waste Connections Inc (WCN), with institutional investors hold 90.12% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 258.32M, and float is at 257.72M with Short Float at 0.83%. Institutions hold 89.94% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 28.93 million shares valued at $5.07 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 11.2138 of the WCN Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is T. ROWE PRICE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, INC. with 12.4 million shares valued at $2.17 billion to account for 4.806 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are ROYAL BANK OF CANADA which holds 10.16 million shares representing 3.9397 and valued at over $1.78 billion, while WCM INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, LLC holds 3.6201 of the shares totaling 9.34 million with a market value of $1.64 billion.
Waste Connections Inc (WCN) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by NIELSEN III ROBERT, the company’s SR VP Operations. SEC filings show that NIELSEN III ROBERT sold 973 shares of the company’s common stock on May 23 ’25 at a price of $196.27 per share for a total of $0.19 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 4250.0 shares.
Waste Connections Inc disclosed in a document filed with the SEC on Mar 10 ’25 that CHAMBLISS DARRELL W (EVP & COO) sold a total of 13,566 shares of the company’s common stock. The trade occurred on Mar 10 ’25 and was made at $188.30 per share for $2.55 million. Following the transaction, the insider now directly holds 95000.0 shares of the WCN stock.
