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

Waste Management's Return on Sales history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 0.15% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Sales rose 59.0% year-over-year to 0.15%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.13%, up 14.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.14%, 2.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Sales for Q4 2025 was 0.15% at Waste Management, up from 0.12% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Sales topped out at 0.17% in Q2 2024 and bottomed at 0.45% in Q4 2022.
  • The 5-year median for Return on Sales is 0.12% (2022), against an average of 0.06%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Return on Sales tumbled -56bps in 2022 before it soared 59bps in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Sales shows it stood at 0.11% in 2021, then plummeted by -518bps to 0.45% in 2022, then soared by 114bps to 0.06% in 2023, then crashed by -812bps to 0.45% in 2024, then skyrocketed by 133bps to 0.15% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for WM's Return on Sales are 0.15% (Q4 2025), 0.12% (Q3 2025), and 0.14% (Q2 2025).