WCN Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Waste Connections Common Shares | NYSE:WCN)

Waste Connections is the third-largest integrated provider of traditional solid waste and recycling services in North America, operating 113 active landfills (20 are exploration and production waste landfills and 16 are nonmunicipal waste landfills), 163 transfer stations, and 89 recycling operations. The firm serves residential, commercial, industrial, and energy end markets. Waste Connections entered the Canadian market via its 2016 merger with Progressive Waste. In 2024, 14% of consolidated revenue was generated from the firm's Canadian segment.

Waste Connections Common Shares trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol WCN.

As of January 9, 2026, WCN stock price declined to $166.31 with 1,698,725 million shares trading.

WCN has a beta of 0.07, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. WCN has a correlation of 0.01 to the broad based SPY ETF.

WCN has a market cap of $42.58 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Waste Connections Common Shares reported $2 billion in Revenue and $1.44 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $8 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.06.

In the last 3 years, WCN traded as high as $201.66 and as low as $125.83.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that WCN belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VO, VUG, VOT, USMV.

WCN has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -4.8% while the SPY ETF gained +19.0%. WCN has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -2.1% and -6.6%, respectively, while the SPY returned +3.7% and +0.5%, respectively.

WCN support price is $166.21 and resistance is $170.23 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that WCN shares will trade within this expected range on the day.