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Based in Houston, Texas, Waste Management, Inc. (WM) operates one of North America’s most expansive environmental services platforms. With a $91.4 billion market cap, the company manages waste collection, recycling, disposal, and material recovery while also converting landfill gas into energy and delivering regulated healthcare waste and secure information destruction services.
Over the past 52 weeks, WM stock gained 2.5%, significantly lagging the S&P 500 Index ($SPX) 15.6% gain. Year-to-date (YTD) performance, however, has been stronger, with WM stock rising 4.9% and surpassing the broader market’s modest 1.7% increase.