Growth Metrics

Waste Management (WM) EBIT Margin (2016 - 2025)

Waste Management's EBIT Margin history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 38.54% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, EBIT Margin rose 249.0% year-over-year to 38.54%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 2.86%, down 43.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 2.86%, 43.0% down from the prior year.
  • EBIT Margin for Q4 2025 was 38.54% at Waste Management, down from 15.35% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, EBIT Margin topped out at 19.95% in Q3 2024 and bottomed at 41.03% in Q4 2024.
  • The 5-year median for EBIT Margin is 17.07% (2021), against an average of 11.66%.
  • The largest annual shift saw EBIT Margin surged 287bps in 2021 before it plummeted -5608bps in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of EBIT Margin shows it stood at 15.35% in 2021, then rose by 1bps to 15.5% in 2022, then dropped by -3bps to 15.05% in 2023, then crashed by -373bps to 41.03% in 2024, then increased by 6bps to 38.54% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for WM's EBIT Margin are 38.54% (Q4 2025), 15.35% (Q3 2025), and 17.9% (Q2 2025).