Waste Management (WM) reported $6.02 billion in revenue for the quarter ended March 2025, representing a year-over-year increase of 16.7%. EPS of $1.67 for the same period compares to $1.75 a year ago.
The reported revenue represents a surprise of -1.33% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $6.1 billion. With the consensus EPS estimate being $1.65, the EPS surprise was +1.21%.
While investors scrutinize revenue and earnings changes year-over-year and how they compare with Wall Street expectations to determine their next move, some key metrics always offer a more accurate picture of a company's financial health.
Since these metrics play a crucial role in driving the top- and bottom-line numbers, comparing them with the year-ago numbers and what analysts estimated about them helps investors better project a stock's price performance.
Here is how Waste Management performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Internal Revenue Growth - Period-to-Period Change - Total - As a % of Total Company: 16.7% compared to the 16.1% average estimate based on six analysts.
- Internal Revenue Growth - Period-to-Period Change - Internal revenue growth - As a % of Total Company: 3.5% versus the four-analyst average estimate of 4.9%.
- Internal Revenue Growth - Period-to-Period Change - Volume - As a % of Total Company: 0.1% versus the three-analyst average estimate of 0.8%.
- Operating revenues- Recycling: $384 million versus $442.21 million estimated by two analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a +4.4% change.
- Operating revenues - WM Renewable Energy: $91 million versus $94.08 million estimated by two analysts on average.
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Shares of Waste Management have returned +0.2% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's -4.3% change. The stock currently has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold), indicating that it could perform in line with the broader market in the near term.
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