Waste Connections, Inc. (TSE:WCN – Get Free Report) declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, October 23rd, Zacks reports. Stockholders of record on Thursday, November 7th will be paid a dividend of 0.426 per share on Thursday, November 21st. This represents a $1.70 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of ∞. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, November 7th. This is an increase from Waste Connections’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.39.
Waste Connections Price Performance
The company has a quick ratio of 0.74, a current ratio of 0.70 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 100.60. The company has a market cap of C$63.88 billion, a PE ratio of 54.90, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.22 and a beta of 0.72. Waste Connections has a 12-month low of C$174.74 and a 12-month high of C$253.95. The stock’s fifty day moving average price is C$247.98 and its two-hundred day moving average price is C$239.18.
Waste Connections (TSE:WCN – Get Free Report) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, July 24th. The company reported C$1.70 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of C$1.61 by C$0.09. Waste Connections had a return on equity of 11.14% and a net margin of 10.23%. The firm had revenue of C$3.08 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of C$3.03 billion. Research analysts expect that Waste Connections will post 9.9808652 EPS for the current year.
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Insider Activity at Waste Connections
In other Waste Connections news, Director Edward E. Guillet sold 8,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Tuesday, September 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of C$249.52, for a total transaction of C$1,996,164.00. In related news, Director Edward E. Guillet sold 8,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, September 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of C$249.52, for a total transaction of C$1,996,164.00. Also, Senior Officer Robert Andres Nielsen sold 571 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, September 9th. The stock was sold at an average price of C$252.28, for a total transaction of C$144,051.88. In the last ninety days, insiders have sold 30,671 shares of company stock worth $6,073,683. 0.21% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.
About Waste Connections
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.
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