Waste Connections Stock Retained Earnings
| WCN Stock | CAD 264.02 3.22 1.23% |
Waste Connections fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Waste Connections' financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Waste Stock. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Waste Connections' intrinsic value by examining its available economic and financial indicators, including the cash flow records, the balance sheet account changes, the income statement patterns, and various microeconomic indicators and financial ratios related to Waste Connections stock.
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Waste Connections Company Retained Earnings Analysis
Waste Connections' Retained Earnings is a balance sheet account that refers to the portion of company income that is retained by the firm. In other words, it is a part of earnings that is not paid out as dividends or otherwise distributed to owners. Retained Earnings are calculated by adding net income to last period retained earnings and subtracting any dividends paid to owners.
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Retained Earnings | = | Beginning RE + Income | - | Dividends |
Current Waste Connections Retained Earnings | 4.14 B |
Most of Waste Connections' fundamental indicators, such as Retained Earnings, are part of a valuation analysis module that helps investors searching for stocks that are currently trading at higher or lower prices than their real value. If the real value is higher than the market price, Waste Connections is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
Retained Earnings shows how the firm utilizes its profits over time. In simple terms, investors can think of retained earnings as the amount of profit the company has reinvested in the business since its inceptions. However the methodology to make a decision over how much profit to retain is different between companies in different industries. For example, growing industries tend to retain more of their earnings than more matured industries as they need more assets investment to sustain their growth.
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Based on the latest financial disclosure, Waste Connections has a Retained Earnings of 4.14 B. This is 59.99% lower than that of the Commercial Services & Supplies sector and significantly higher than that of the Industrials industry. The retained earnings for all Canada stocks is 55.61% higher than that of the company.
Waste Retained Earnings Peer Comparison
Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Waste Connections' direct or indirect competition against its Retained Earnings to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the stocks which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of Waste Connections could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Waste Connections by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.Waste Connections is currently under evaluation in retained earnings category among its peers.
Waste Fundamentals
| Return On Equity | 0.12 | |||
| Return On Asset | 0.0507 | |||
| Profit Margin | 0.11 % | |||
| Operating Margin | 0.21 % | |||
| Current Valuation | 78.85 B | |||
| Shares Outstanding | 258.01 M | |||
| Shares Owned By Insiders | 0.21 % | |||
| Shares Owned By Institutions | 89.98 % | |||
| Number Of Shares Shorted | 1.13 M | |||
| Price To Earning | 177.62 X | |||
| Price To Book | 5.84 X | |||
| Price To Sales | 7.74 X | |||
| Revenue | 8.02 B | |||
| Gross Profit | 2.88 B | |||
| EBITDA | 2.5 B | |||
| Net Income | 762.83 M | |||
| Cash And Equivalents | 78.64 M | |||
| Cash Per Share | 3.27 X | |||
| Total Debt | 7.02 B | |||
| Debt To Equity | 0.75 % | |||
| Current Ratio | 1.40 X | |||
| Book Value Per Share | 32.02 X | |||
| Cash Flow From Operations | 2.13 B | |||
| Short Ratio | 5.45 X | |||
| Earnings Per Share | 5.09 X | |||
| Price To Earnings To Growth | 2.09 X | |||
| Target Price | 180.98 | |||
| Number Of Employees | 22.54 K | |||
| Beta | 0.72 | |||
| Market Capitalization | 67.29 B | |||
| Total Asset | 17.92 B | |||
| Retained Earnings | 4.14 B | |||
| Working Capital | (546.15 M) | |||
| Current Asset | 1.06 B | |||
| Current Liabilities | 835.79 M | |||
| Annual Yield | 0.01 % | |||
| Net Asset | 17.92 B | |||
| Last Dividend Paid | 1.14 |
About Waste Connections Fundamental Analysis
The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Waste Connections's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Waste Connections using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Waste Connections based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this company, focuses on analyzing financial statements comparatively, whereas a qaualitative method uses data that is important to a company's growth but cannot be measured and presented in a numerical way.
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The correlation of Waste Connections is a statistical measure of how it moves in relation to other instruments. This measure is expressed in what is known as the correlation coefficient, which ranges between -1 and +1. A perfect positive correlation (i.e., a correlation coefficient of +1) implies that as Waste Connections moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if Waste Connections moves in either direction, the perfectly negatively correlated security will move in the opposite direction. If the correlation is 0, the equities are not correlated; they are entirely random. A correlation greater than 0.8 is generally described as strong, whereas a correlation less than 0.5 is generally considered weak.
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