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Waste Management Inc.
WM
224.91 (-0.88%) 1.97
90.44(B)
Industrials
Commercial Services and Supplies
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; 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 includes 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.
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Waste Management Inc. (WM) price target and intrinsic value estimate

WM's fair price estimate is $85.4

This valuation is based on a fair P/E of 10.7 and EPS estimates of $8.00

The median analyst price target for WM is $237.0.

Analyst price targets range from $191.0 to $262.0

Is WM overvalued or undervalued?

WM is currently trading at $224.91

WM is overvalued by 163% using the pevaluation method.

WM is undervalued by 5% compared to median analyst price targets.

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Valuation

PEvaluation

Current price
$224.9
Overvalued
Low
$64.1
Median
$85.4
High
$106.8
Fair P/E
Margin of safety

Analyst valuation

Current price
$225
Fairly valued
Low
$191
Median
$237
High
$262
Strong Buy3
Buy8
Hold9
Sell0
Strong Sell1

Discounted cash-flow

N/A
Negative FCF or FCF estimates
TTM FCFFCF est.Growth FCFTerminal FCF
Discount
rate
10%
Terminal
rate
5%
Growth p.
length
5y
Growth p.
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10%
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Economic moat: None/narrow
None/narrowMediumWideVery wide

Overview

Market data

Market cap:$90.44(B)
Enterprise value:$114.97(B)
Total Equity:$8.25(B)
Shares outstanding:402.12(M)
Div. yield:1.33%
P/S:4.09
P/E:32.88
P/FCF:41.80
P/B:10.94
EPS:$6.8
FCF per share:$5.4
Dividend per share:$3.0

Income (TTM)

RevenueGrossNet
Revenue$22.06(B)
Gross profit$8.68(B)
EBITDA$6.58(B)
Net income$2.75(B)
Gross margin39.3%
Net margin12.4%

Balance sheet

Cash & ST inv.Other ST assetsLong term assetsCurrent liabilitiesLong term debtOther LT liabilitiesEquity
Total assets$44.57(B)
Total liabilities$36.31(B)
Cash & Short-term inv.$414.00(M)
Long-term debt$22.17(B)
Debt issued$24.58(B)
Debt repaid$-17.87(B)

Cash flow (TTM)

CFOCFICFF
FCF$2.16(B)
CapEx$-3.23(B)
Dividends paid$-1.21(B)
Stock issued$53.00(M)
Stock repurchased$-314.00(M)
Stock-based comp.$118.00(M)

Per Share Data

x1
Price: $225
Revenue: $55.0 (4.1x | 24.4%) Gross profit: $21.6 (10.4x | 9.6%) Earnings: $6.84 (32.9x | 3.0%)
FCF: $5.38 (41.8x | 2.4%) Stock-based Comp.: $0.29 (766.4x | 0.1%) CapEx.: $8.04 (28.0x | 3.6%) Dividend: $3.00 (75.0x | 1.3%)
Total Assets: $111 (2.0x | 49.3%) Total Liabilities: $90.3 (2.5x | 40.2%) Book Value: $20.6 (10.9x | 9.1%) Cash & ST inv.: $1.03 (218.5x | 0.5%) Debt: $55.1 (4.1x | 24.5%)

Growth Estimates

Revenue

CAGR: 6.0%
FY+1FY+2FY+3FY+4FY+5
FY+1$25.64(B)
FY+2$27.09(B)
FY+3$28.44(B)
FY+4$30.70(B)
FY+5$32.38(B)

Net Income

CAGR: 10.1%
FY+1FY+2FY+3FY+4FY+5
FY+1$3.07(B)
FY+2$3.49(B)
FY+3$3.86(B)
FY+4$4.26(B)
FY+5$4.52(B)

EPS

CAGR: 10.4%
FY+1FY+2FY+3FY+4FY+5
FY+1$7.66
FY+2$8.69
FY+3$9.66
FY+4$10.66
FY+5$11.36

FCF per share

CAGR: 9.4%
FY+1FY+2
FY+1$14.30
FY+2$15.65

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