Waste Management Stocks To Watch Now – August 18th

Waste Management, JBS, Rockwell Automation, Halliburton, Fluor, Cemex, and Tetra Tech are the seven Waste Management stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Waste management stocks are equity shares of publicly traded companies that collect, transport, process and dispose of municipal, industrial or hazardous waste. These firms often operate landfills, recycling facilities and offer environmental-compliance services such as resource recovery and sustainability consulting. Investors typically view them as defensive holdings with relatively stable cash flows and growth driven by regulatory mandates and recycling initiatives. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Waste Management stocks within the last several days.

Waste Management (WM)

Waste Management, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of environmental solutions to residential, commercial, industrial, and municipal customers in the United States and Canada. It offers collection services, including picking up and transporting waste and recyclable materials from where it was generated to a transfer station, material recovery facility (MRF), or disposal site; and owns and operates transfer stations, as well as owns, develops, and operates landfill facilities that produce landfill gas used as renewable natural gas for generating electricity.

Shares of Waste Management stock traded down $1.90 during trading on Monday, hitting $224.92. 2,167,940 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,728,994. The stock has a market cap of $90.60 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 33.30, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.78 and a beta of 0.64. Waste Management has a 12-month low of $199.69 and a 12-month high of $242.58. The firm’s 50-day moving average price is $230.00 and its 200 day moving average price is $229.68. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.51, a current ratio of 0.86 and a quick ratio of 0.82.

JBS (JBS)

JBS N.V., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a protein and food company worldwide. The company offers beef, pork, chicken, poultry, fish, and lamb products; cooked frozen meat; plant based products; and other food products. It also sells leather, leather, hygiene and cleaning products, collagen, metal packaging, biodiesel, and others, as well as wet blue leather, semi-finished, and finished leather products.

Shares of NYSE:JBS traded up $0.61 on Monday, reaching $14.91. 8,028,963 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 5,000,829. JBS has a 1-year low of $12.83 and a 1-year high of $15.18.

Rockwell Automation (ROK)

Rockwell Automation, Inc. provides industrial automation and digital transformation solutions in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and Latin America. The company operates through three segments, Intelligent Devices, Software & Control, and Lifecycle Services. Its solutions include hardware and software products and services.

Rockwell Automation stock traded up $1.83 during mid-day trading on Monday, reaching $342.80. The company had a trading volume of 323,729 shares, compared to its average volume of 944,870. Rockwell Automation has a 1 year low of $215.00 and a 1 year high of $360.92. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.72, a current ratio of 1.06 and a quick ratio of 0.72. The company has a market capitalization of $38.54 billion, a P/E ratio of 40.23, a P/E/G ratio of 3.52 and a beta of 1.39. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is $339.14 and its 200-day simple moving average is $296.36.

Halliburton (HAL)

Halliburton Company provides products and services to the energy industry worldwide. It operates through two segments, Completion and Production, and Drilling and Evaluation. The Completion and Production segment offers production enhancement services that include stimulation and sand control services; cementing services, such as well bonding and casing, and casing equipment; and completion tools that offer downhole solutions and services, including well completion products and services, intelligent well completions, and service tools, as well as liner hanger, sand control, and multilateral systems.

Halliburton stock traded up $0.22 during mid-day trading on Monday, reaching $21.34. The company had a trading volume of 4,660,766 shares, compared to its average volume of 13,716,467. Halliburton has a 1 year low of $18.72 and a 1 year high of $32.57. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68, a current ratio of 2.00 and a quick ratio of 1.47. The company has a market capitalization of $18.19 billion, a P/E ratio of 9.95, a P/E/G ratio of 3.69 and a beta of 1.12. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is $21.67 and its 200-day simple moving average is $22.50.

Fluor (FLR)

Fluor Corporation provides engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC); fabrication and modularization; operation and maintenance; asset integrity; and project management services worldwide. The company operates through Energy Solutions, Urban Solutions, Mission Solutions, and Other segments. The Energy Solutions segment provides solutions to the energy transition markets, including asset decarbonization, carbon capture, renewable fuels, waste-to-energy, green chemicals, hydrogen, nuclear power, and other low-carbon energy sources.

Fluor stock traded up $0.24 during mid-day trading on Monday, reaching $42.12. The company had a trading volume of 1,526,490 shares, compared to its average volume of 3,583,635. Fluor has a 1 year low of $29.20 and a 1 year high of $60.10. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.18, a current ratio of 1.62 and a quick ratio of 1.62. The company has a market capitalization of $6.81 billion, a P/E ratio of 1.73 and a beta of 1.43. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is $49.84 and its 200-day simple moving average is $42.28.

Cemex (CX)

CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V., together with its subsidiaries, produces, markets, distributes, and sells cement, ready-mix concrete, aggregates, urbanization solutions, and other construction materials and services worldwide. The company offers gray ordinary portland, white portland, oil-well, and blended cement products; mortar; and standard ready-mix, architectural and decorative, rapid-setting, fiber-reinforced, fluid-fill, roller-compacted, self-consolidating, pervious, and antibacterial, and other concrete products.

Cemex stock traded up $0.10 during mid-day trading on Monday, reaching $8.63. The company had a trading volume of 4,900,894 shares, compared to its average volume of 12,835,088. Cemex has a 1 year low of $4.89 and a 1 year high of $8.83. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.37, a current ratio of 0.86 and a quick ratio of 0.61. The company has a market capitalization of $12.50 billion, a P/E ratio of 8.42, a P/E/G ratio of 0.91 and a beta of 1.40. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is $7.61 and its 200-day simple moving average is $6.69.

Tetra Tech (TTEK)

Tetra Tech, Inc. provides consulting and engineering services in the United States and internationally. The company operates through two segments, Government Services Group (GSG) and Commercial/International Services Group (CIG). The GSG segment offers early data collection and monitoring, data analysis and information management, science and engineering applied research, engineering design, project management, and operations and maintenance services; and climate change and energy management consulting, as well as greenhouse gas inventory assessment, certification, reduction, and management services.

Tetra Tech stock traded down $0.26 during mid-day trading on Monday, reaching $35.54. The company had a trading volume of 764,392 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,435,301. Tetra Tech has a 1 year low of $27.27 and a 1 year high of $51.20. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.50, a current ratio of 1.18 and a quick ratio of 1.18. The company has a market capitalization of $9.34 billion, a P/E ratio of 44.36 and a beta of 0.92. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is $36.57 and its 200-day simple moving average is $33.29.