Waste Connections, Inc. (TSE:WCN – Get Free Report) announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, October 23rd, Zacks reports. Investors of record on Thursday, November 7th will be given a dividend of 0.426 per share on Thursday, November 21st. This represents a $1.70 annualized dividend and a yield of ∞. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, November 7th. This is a boost from Waste Connections’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.39.
Waste Connections Stock Performance
The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 100.60, a current ratio of 0.70 and a quick ratio of 0.74. The stock has a market cap of C$63.88 billion, a P/E ratio of 54.90, a P/E/G ratio of 2.22 and a beta of 0.72. Waste Connections has a 52-week low of C$174.74 and a 52-week high of C$253.95. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is C$247.98 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is C$239.18.
Waste Connections (TSE:WCN – Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, July 24th. The company reported C$1.70 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate 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. As a group, equities analysts expect that Waste Connections will post 9.9808652 earnings per share for the current year.
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Insider Activity at Waste Connections
In other Waste Connections news, Senior Officer Susan Rhea Netherton sold 2,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Friday, August 2nd. The stock was sold at an average price of C$179.13, for a total value of C$358,262.60. In other news, Senior Officer Mary Anne Whitney sold 16,300 shares of Waste Connections stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, July 31st. The shares were sold at an average price of C$178.05, for a total transaction of C$2,902,254.12. Also, Senior Officer Susan Rhea Netherton sold 2,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, August 2nd. The stock was sold at an average price of C$179.13, for a total value of C$358,262.60. Insiders have sold a total of 30,671 shares of company stock worth $6,073,683 over the last three months. 0.21% of the stock is currently 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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