Waste Management (WM) FCF Margin (2009 - 2026)

Waste Management has disclosed FCF Margin across 18 years of filings, most recently posting 13.67% for Q1 2026.

• FCF Margin for Q1 2026 came in at 13.67%, up 740.0% year-over-year; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 was 12.95% (up 493.0% YoY), and the FY2025 annual result was 11.17%, up 139.0% from the prior year.
• FCF Margin came in at 13.67% for Q1 2026 at Waste Management, up from 12.83% in the prior quarter.
• In the past five years, FCF Margin ranged from a high of 18.02% in Q1 2022 to a low of 3.79% in Q4 2022.
• The 5-year median for FCF Margin is 9.96% (2023), against an average of 10.2%.
• Across the five-year window, FCF Margin plunged 1017 bps in 2023 and soared 740 bps in 2026, its largest moves.
• Waste Management's FCF Margin stood at 3.79% in 2022, then jumped by 72 bps to 6.52% in 2023, then grew by 3 bps to 6.72% in 2024, then jumped by 91 bps to 12.83% in 2025, then increased by 7 bps to 13.67% in 2026.
• The last three FCF Margin figures came in at 13.67% (Q1 2026), 12.83% (Q4 2025), and 12.66% (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.