Company overview
Waste Connections, Inc. provides non-hazardous waste collection, transfer, disposal, and resource recovery services in the United States and Canada. It offers collection services to residential, commercial, municipal, industrial, and exploration and production (E&P) customers; landfill disposal services; and recycling services for various recyclable materials, including compost, cardboard, mixed paper, plastic containers, glass bottles, and ferrous and aluminum metals. The company owns and operates transfer stations that receive compact and/or load waste to be transported to landfills or treatment facilities through truck, rail, or barge; and intermodal services for the rail haul movement of cargo and solid waste containers in the Pacific Northwest through a network of intermodal facilities. In addition, it provides E&P waste treatment, recovery, and disposal services for waste resulting from oil and natural gas exploration and production activity, such as drilling fluids, drill cuttings, completion fluids, and flowback water; production wastes and produced water during a well's operating life; contaminated soils that require treatment during site reclamation; and substances, which require clean-up after a spill, reserve pit clean-up, or pipeline rupture. Further, the company offers leasing services. Waste Connections, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is based in Woodbridge, Canada.
Daily valuation snapshot
These values come from the daily market snapshot dated 2026-10-08. TTM means trailing twelve months. Use the market date when comparing WCN with another company.
| Daily close (USD) | $154.69 |
| Market capitalization (USD) | $38,989,542,105.08 |
| Price / earnings (TTM) | 36.76 |
| Price / book | 4.92 |
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Waste Connections, Inc.'s recorded market capitalization is $38,989,542,105.08. It measures the market value of the company's equity, rather than its revenue or cash balance.
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WCN's recorded P/E is 36.76: about $36.76 of share price for each $1 of trailing annual earnings per share. Compare that multiple with earnings growth and companies in the same business.
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WCN's recorded price-to-book ratio is 4.92. That compares its market equity value with recorded book equity. Examine its business and balance sheet to understand why those values differ.
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