Growth Metrics

Waste Management (WM) Long-Term Debt Issuances (2016 - 2025)

Waste Management (WM) has disclosed Long-Term Debt Issuances for 17 consecutive years, with $5.5 billion as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly Long-Term Debt Issuances fell 60.06% to $5.5 billion in Q4 2025 from the year-ago period, while the trailing twelve-month figure was $16.4 billion through Dec 2025, down 33.27% year-over-year, with the annual reading at $20.4 billion for FY2025, 16.94% down from the prior year.
  • Long-Term Debt Issuances hit $5.5 billion in Q4 2025 for Waste Management, down from $5.8 billion in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Long-Term Debt Issuances ranged from a high of $13.7 billion in Q4 2024 to a low of $130.0 million in Q2 2025.
  • Historically, Long-Term Debt Issuances has averaged $4.3 billion across 5 years, with a median of $4.4 billion in 2023.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Long-Term Debt Issuances: surged 972.48% in 2023 and later plummeted 97.27% in 2025.
  • Year by year, Long-Term Debt Issuances stood at $1.5 billion in 2021, then surged by 82.37% to $2.8 billion in 2022, then soared by 43.83% to $4.0 billion in 2023, then skyrocketed by 242.71% to $13.7 billion in 2024, then crashed by 60.06% to $5.5 billion in 2025.
  • Business Quant data shows Long-Term Debt Issuances for WM at $5.5 billion in Q4 2025, $5.8 billion in Q3 2025, and $130.0 million in Q2 2025.