Waste Management (WM) Debt Ratio (2009 - 2026)

Waste Management has disclosed Debt Ratio across 18 years of filings, most recently posting 0.5 for Q1 2026.

• Debt Ratio for Q1 2026 came in at 0.5, down 6.52% year-over-year; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 was 0.5 (down 6.52% YoY), and the FY2025 annual result was 0.5, down 6.81% from the prior year.
• Debt Ratio came in at 0.5 for Q1 2026 at Waste Management, roughly flat from 0.5 in the prior quarter.
• In the past five years, Debt Ratio ranged from a high of 0.54 in Q4 2024 to a low of 0.46 in Q1 2022.
• The 5-year median for Debt Ratio is 0.49 (2024), against an average of 0.49.
• Peak annual rise in Debt Ratio reached 8.73% in 2025, while the deepest fall reached 6.81% in 2025.
• Waste Management's Debt Ratio stood at 0.48 in 2022, then rose by 3.5% to 0.49 in 2023, then grew by 8.46% to 0.54 in 2024, then retreated by 6.81% to 0.5 in 2025, then increased by 0.23% to 0.5 in 2026.
• The last three Debt Ratio figures came in at 0.5 (Q1 2026), 0.5 (Q4 2025), and 0.51 (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.