Growth Metrics

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

Waste Management's Net Margin history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 14.81% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Net Margin rose 5932.0% year-over-year to 14.81%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 12.99%, up 1421.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 13.59%, 175.0% up from the prior year.
  • Net Margin for Q4 2025 was 14.81% at Waste Management, up from 12.03% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Net Margin topped out at 16.55% in Q2 2024 and bottomed at 45.19% in Q4 2022.
  • The 5-year median for Net Margin is 11.83% (2022), against an average of 6.2%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Net Margin plummeted -5600bps in 2022 before it soared 5932bps in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of Net Margin shows it stood at 10.82% in 2021, then tumbled by -518bps to 45.19% in 2022, then soared by 114bps to 6.25% in 2023, then crashed by -812bps to 44.51% in 2024, then skyrocketed by 133bps to 14.81% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for WM's Net Margin are 14.81% (Q4 2025), 12.03% (Q3 2025), and 14.43% (Q2 2025).