Waste Management (WM) Operating Expenses (2009 - 2026)

Waste Management has disclosed Operating Expenses across 18 years of filings, most recently posting -$22.0 million for Q1 2026.

• Operating Expenses for Q1 2026 came in at -$22.0 million, down 100.44% year-over-year; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 was $262.0 million (up 107.41% YoY), and the FY2025 annual result was $299.0 million, up 247.67% from the prior year.
• Operating Expenses came in at -$22.0 million for Q1 2026 at Waste Management, down from $21.0 million in the prior quarter.
• In the past five years, Operating Expenses ranged from a high of $5.0 billion in Q1 2025 to a low of -$12.9 billion in Q4 2024.
• The 5-year median for Operating Expenses is $3.9 billion (2022), against an average of $69.5 million.
• Across the five-year window, Operating Expenses tumbled 405.56% in 2022 and surged 2737.5% in 2025, its largest moves.
• Waste Management's Operating Expenses stood at -$12.1 billion in 2022, then slipped by 0.59% to -$12.2 billion in 2023, then fell by 6.32% to -$12.9 billion in 2024, then soared by 100.16% to $21.0 million in 2025, then slumped by 204.76% to -$22.0 million in 2026.
• The last three Operating Expenses figures came in at -$22.0 million (Q1 2026), $21.0 million (Q4 2025), and $227.0 million (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.