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Waste Management (WM) Return on Assets (2016 - 2025)

Waste Management's Return on Assets history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 0.07% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Assets rose 8.0% year-over-year to 0.07%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.07%, up 8.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.08%, 1.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Assets for Q4 2025 was 0.07% at Waste Management, up from 0.01% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Assets topped out at 0.08% in Q3 2024 and bottomed at 0.02% in Q4 2022.
  • The 5-year median for Return on Assets is 0.06% (2021), against an average of 0.04%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Return on Assets fell -9bps in 2023 before it increased 9bps in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Assets shows it stood at 0.06% in 2021, then plummeted by -124bps to 0.02% in 2022, then soared by 532bps to 0.07% in 2023, then tumbled by -110bps to 0.01% in 2024, then skyrocketed by 1156bps to 0.07% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for WM's Return on Assets are 0.07% (Q4 2025), 0.01% (Q3 2025), and 0.01% (Q2 2025).