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

Waste Management's Return on Equity history spans 15 years, with the latest figure at 0.34% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Equity rose 37.0% year-over-year to 0.34%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.34%, up 37.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.38%, 3.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Equity for Q4 2025 was 0.34% at Waste Management, up from 0.03% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Equity topped out at 0.36% in Q2 2024 and bottomed at 0.07% in Q4 2022.
  • The 5-year median for Return on Equity is 0.26% (2021), against an average of 0.16%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Return on Equity soared 42bps in 2024 before it crashed -39bps in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Equity shows it stood at 0.25% in 2021, then tumbled by -126bps to 0.07% in 2022, then surged by 557bps to 0.31% in 2023, then tumbled by -111bps to 0.03% in 2024, then surged by 1113bps to 0.34% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for WM's Return on Equity are 0.34% (Q4 2025), 0.03% (Q3 2025), and 0.03% (Q2 2025).