Waste Management (WM) Stock: Price, Trend, Options & Financials
Waste Management's price regime, relative strength, unusual-options and unusual-volume history, curated-manager ownership and filed fundamentals — joined into one dated stock intelligence page.
What the evidence says now
WM closed at $224.06 on Aug 21, 2026. The price is -1.7% from its 50-day average and -0.1% from its 200-day average, which places it in the rules-based “pullback below trend” regime. The relative-strength check: over three months the stock returned +2.9%, trailing SPY by 0.2%. It remains 9.7% below its 52-week high.
Sources, methodology & freshnessLast updated 2026-08-21 · Open ↓Close ↑
The close is -1.7% from its 50-day average and -0.1% from its 200-day average. Over three months, WM returned +2.9% versus +3.1% for SPY.
- vs 50-day
- -1.7%
- vs 200-day
- -0.1%
- From 52W high
- -9.7%
Descriptive, not predictive. “Uptrend” is a rules-based reading of the close and moving averages; it is not a rating, price target or recommendation.
Price & regime
One year of daily price and volume
252 split-adjusted sessions · candles above, share volume below
Unusual options — attention, not intent
WM appeared in a UOA top-30 list on 0 of 62 archived scanner sessions: 0 call-side, 0 put-side and 0 on both lists. The latest session did not place it in either top 30. No eligible current chain row was available, so the page does not manufacture a latest composite score.
| Recent flag | Call rank | Put rank |
|---|---|---|
| No issuer-level top-30 flags in the current archive. | ||
Latest chain snapshot
2026-08-21Strong-signature cutoff: 1.5. The current scanner did not supply an eligible row for this issuer.
Curated-manager ownership
1 of the 20 managers in the project's curated 13F set reported a long Waste Management position in their latest filing, worth $6.0B in aggregate at each filing's reported value. This is a focused manager panel, not the complete institutional holder list.
| Fund / manager | Position value | Portfolio | Shares | Quarter change | Report date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gates Foundation Trust Michael Larson · WM | $6.0B | 17.30% | 26.72M | -3.3% reduced | 2026-06-30 |
Filed fundamentals — latest snapshot
Go deeper into the filings
The dedicated Financials dashboard carries the complete quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history, with derived figures flagged and every XBRL concept disclosed.
Open WM Financials →How WM trades — the working manual
Waste Management collects, transfers, recycles and landfills solid waste, and increasingly converts that waste into renewable natural gas. Landfill capacity is difficult to replicate, which gives the business durable local pricing power. For the stock, core price versus cost inflation is the central number, with volume secondary.
What can move the tape
- 01Core price, yield and churn across collection and disposal lines.
- 02Volume trends by commercial, industrial, residential and special-waste stream.
- 03Recycling commodity prices and the economics of renewable-energy investments.
- 04Operating expense inflation, fleet and labor costs, and free-cash-flow conversion.
What can fool the read
- 01Recycling commodity swings can move reported results without changing the underlying franchise.
- 02Industrial and construction volumes are economically sensitive even where pricing holds.
- 03Large capital programs in recycling and renewable energy consume cash before contributing earnings.
- 04Landfill permitting, environmental liabilities and regulation can create long-dated costs.
No WM flags in the committed 2026-04-01–2026-08-21 archive. That means no session cleared this project's anomaly threshold; it does not mean trading volume was literally constant.
Not published yet. The local archive has 1 reported WM events—too few for a defensible gap-and-drift study. This missing block is an explicit indexing blocker.
Source map & freshness
| Block | What it uses | Vintage | Raw data |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | SEC issuer + primary security mapping | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
| Price & trend | Split-adjusted daily OHLCV + SPY comparison | 2026-08-21 | CSV ↓ |
| Options | End-of-day chain anomaly ranks | 2026-08-21 | Premium → |
| Ownership | Latest filings from 20 curated 13F managers | 2026-08-21 | Tool → |
| Financials | SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
| Joined profile | The exact contract rendered by this page | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
WM stock questions
Is WM stock in an uptrend?+
WM is classified in the “pullback below trend” regime as of 2026-08-21: the close is -1.7% from its 50-day average and -0.1% from its 200-day average. This describes the current tape. It is not a forecast.
What does unusual options activity in WM mean?+
WM has not appeared in either issuer-level top-30 list during the current archive. A future flag would identify an OTM chain outlier relative to the scanner universe. It would identify no buyer, seller, institution or spread leg.
Are the WM 13F holdings current?+
No. 13F filings are delayed quarter-end snapshots and cover only the curated managers in this project. They are useful for documented ownership changes, not real-time positioning or complete institutional ownership.
Where are WM's income statement and cash flow?+
The dedicated WM Financials page contains the full quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history parsed from SEC EDGAR XBRL. This stock page carries only the latest filed snapshot.
Why is there no WM earnings-move base rate yet?+
The committed earnings archive does not yet contain enough reported events for a defensible company-level reaction study. The page leaves that block unpublished instead of presenting a tiny sample as a reliable base rate.