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Waste Management (WM) FCF Payout Ratio (2016 - 2025)

Waste Management's FCF Payout Ratio history spans 16 years, with the latest figure at 0.41 for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, FCF Payout Ratio fell 44.05% year-over-year to 0.41; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.47, down 14.77%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.47, 14.77% down from the prior year.
  • FCF Payout Ratio for Q4 2025 was 0.41 at Waste Management, up from 0.41 in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, FCF Payout Ratio topped out at 1.42 in Q4 2022 and bottomed at 0.29 in Q1 2021.
  • The 5-year median for FCF Payout Ratio is 0.53 (2022), against an average of 0.6.
  • The largest annual shift saw FCF Payout Ratio plummeted 62.32% in 2021 before it surged 129.89% in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of FCF Payout Ratio shows it stood at 1.11 in 2021, then increased by 28.61% to 1.42 in 2022, then tumbled by 41.9% to 0.83 in 2023, then dropped by 11.09% to 0.73 in 2024, then tumbled by 44.05% to 0.41 in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for WM's FCF Payout Ratio are 0.41 (Q4 2025), 0.41 (Q3 2025), and 0.41 (Q2 2025).