WCNWaste Connections, Inc.

$186.53+9.7% 1Y

$186.53

$149.0252 weeks$186.53

Is the price fair?

Fair

Neither cheap nor expensive: nothing decisive, though priced for +14% a year vs +8% a year delivered.

1 to watch, 1 neutral, 1 without data

What the price assumes~+14% a yearderived · Sep 30, 2026

Priced for ~14% a year FCF growth. The price demands more than its three-year revenue growth of 8% a year, priced for acceleration.

Vs its own P/E rangemid-range for this companyderived

In its normal range: P/E 41.7 vs a 46.9 median over 41 quarters (−11% vs median).

Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.

Waste Connections, Inc. trades at 41.7× earnings against 26.2× for the median Industrials name, more expensive than its own group.

41.7

Trailing P/E · Industrials median 26.2 · 1.59× the median: the market pays up for this one

Price / sales: 3.90
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q3
Free cash flow yield: 2.7%
Free cash flow yield · Waste Management median 3.2%
Growth the price implies: +14%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +14% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +1.8% a year over the last three.

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What the market has paid for these earnings: 41 quarters of its own multiple × $4.47 of trailing earnings per share
Method	Per share
Its own P/E history, lower quartile	$181.17
Its own P/E history, median	$209.80
Its own P/E history, upper quartile	$247.60
52-week range	$149.02 – $186.53
Today	$186.53

Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.