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Waste Management (WM) Debt Ratio (2016 - 2025)

Waste Management's Debt Ratio history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 0.5 for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Debt Ratio fell 6.81% year-over-year to 0.5; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.5, down 6.81%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.5, 6.81% down from the prior year.
  • Debt Ratio for Q4 2025 was 0.5 at Waste Management, down from 0.51 in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Debt Ratio topped out at 0.54 in Q4 2024 and bottomed at 0.45 in Q3 2021.
  • The 5-year median for Debt Ratio is 0.48 (2023), against an average of 0.49.
  • The largest YoY upside for Debt Ratio was 8.73% in 2025 against a maximum downside of 6.81% in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of Debt Ratio shows it stood at 0.46 in 2021, then grew by 3.69% to 0.48 in 2022, then grew by 3.5% to 0.49 in 2023, then increased by 8.46% to 0.54 in 2024, then decreased by 6.81% to 0.5 in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for WM's Debt Ratio are 0.5 (Q4 2025), 0.51 (Q3 2025), and 0.53 (Q2 2025).