Waste Connections Common Shares (WCN) closed at $184.88 on October 22, 2026, up 9.9% from the previous close, on volume of 4,853,776 shares (30-day average 1,555,734).
Data as of October 22, 2026.
22-Oct-2026
Barclays Reaffirms Their Hold Rating on Waste Connections (WCN)
TipRanks (Fri, 23-Oct 5:46 AM ET)
Waste Connections raises 2026 outlook as Q3 adjusted EBITDA margin reaches 34%
Market Chameleon (Thu, 22-Oct 7:32 AM ET)
Waste Connections (WCN) Gets a Buy from Stifel Nicolaus
TipRanks (Thu, 22-Oct 9:45 AM ET)
Waste Connections (WCN) Receives a Buy from Bank of America Securities
TipRanks (Thu, 22-Oct 6:36 AM ET)
Waste Connections raises quarterly dividend by 10% to CAD 0.385/share
Seeking Alpha News (Wed, 21-Oct 9:57 PM ET)
Waste Connections Posts Strong Q3 Results, Raises Outlook
TipRanks (Wed, 21-Oct 5:49 PM ET)
Waste Connections raises outlook as landfill volumes improve
Seeking Alpha News (Wed, 21-Oct 4:31 PM ET)
Waste Connections Non-GAAP EPS of $1.58 beats by $0.06, revenue of $2.63B beats by $20M
Seeking Alpha News (Wed, 21-Oct 4:06 PM ET)
Waste Connections Reports Third Quarter 2026 Results and Raises Full Year Outlook
Business Wire (Wed, 21-Oct 4:05 PM ET)
Waste Connections Announces 10.0% Increase in Quarterly Dividend
Business Wire (Wed, 21-Oct 4:05 PM ET)
Waste Connections is a North American waste management company focused on integrated waste collection services. The firm primarily focuses on residential, commercial, municipal, and industrial waste collection, with a secondary market focus on rural areas. With 113 landfills and 222 transfer stations as of 2024, it is the third-largest waste management company by revenue. Revenue is split among six operating segments: Western, Southern, Eastern, Central, Canada, and Midsouth.
Waste Connections Common Shares trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol WCN.
As of October 22, 2026, WCN stock price climbed to $184.88 with 4,853,776 million shares trading.
WCN has a beta of -0.32, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. WCN has a correlation of 0.03 to the broad based SPY ETF.
WCN has a market cap of $46.27 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.
Last quarter Waste Connections Common Shares reported $3 billion in Revenue and $1.58 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $29 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.06.
In the last 3 years, WCN traded as high as $201.66 and as low as $126.12.
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 return of +4.4%, while SPY returned +15.5%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in WCN shares. However, WCN has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +10.3% and +19.5%, while SPY returned +2.5% and -1.3%, respectively. This indicates WCN has been having a stronger performance recently.
WCN support price is $166.00 and resistance is $170.56 (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.
