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Waste Management (WM) Return on Invested Capital (2016 - 2025)

Waste Management's Return on Invested Capital history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 1.08% for Q1 2025.

  • For Q1 2025, Return on Invested Capital fell 147.0% year-over-year to 1.08%; the TTM value through Mar 2025 reached 1.08%, down 147.0%, while the annual FY2024 figure was 0.07%, 30.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Invested Capital for Q1 2025 was 1.08% at Waste Management, down from 0.37% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Invested Capital topped out at 0.39% in Q1 2024 and bottomed at 1.33% in Q4 2022.
  • The 5-year median for Return on Invested Capital is 0.32% (2021), against an average of 0.13%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Return on Invested Capital plummeted -164bps in 2022 before it soared 170bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Invested Capital shows it stood at 0.3% in 2021, then plummeted by -538bps to 1.33% in 2022, then soared by 127bps to 0.37% in 2023, then dropped by 0bps to 0.37% in 2024, then plummeted by -396bps to 1.08% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for WM's Return on Invested Capital are 1.08% (Q1 2025), 0.37% (Q3 2024), and 0.39% (Q1 2024).