Back to all assets

Waste Management WM

equity

Price History

$1.38$81.24$161.11$240.97
1988-06 · DCA start$4.38

Time underwater

How far below its previous all-time high the price sat, each month. 0% means a new high.

-75.8%-50.5%-25.3%0.0%
1988-062026-08 · -6.1%

Worst drawdown: −76%, peaking Apr 1999 and bottoming Mar 2000 — 203 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Invested
$45,900
Value today
$584,923
Return
+1174.3%
Months invested
459

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $78,615 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +644.0%.

Lump sum instead — $45,900 all at once in Jun 1988: $2,374,420 (+5073.0%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (May 2025): $1,614 on $1,600 invested (+0.9%).

⚠ Price returns only — dividends are not included. This understates the true return of dividend-paying shares, and any comparison against crypto (which pays no dividends) is biased against equities by roughly the dividend yield, compounded.

If this saved you a spreadsheet — buy me a coffee.

Every start month at once

Each cell is the return-to-date of £/$/€100-a-month DCA started that month. Click a cell to load it in the backtest above. The ringed cell is the all-time-high start — the worst timing scenario.

JFMAMJJASOND
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
Legend:−50%−20%0%+50%+200%+1000%worst timing (ATH)Selected 1988-06: +1174.3%

About Waste Management

Waste Management, Inc., doing business as WM or WV, is a waste management company operating in North America. Founded in 1968, the company is headquartered in the Bank of America Tower in Houston, Texas. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under industrials and environmental & facilities services, with a market cap of about $90.5B.

It rates Medium-High Risk at 2.5/5, meaning real but ordinary risk — the kind most mainstream assets carry, with some factors scoring poorly.

What pushes the score up: leverage / financial (4.0/5) and market / volatility (2.7/5).

Scoring well: liquidity at 1.0/5.

Not yet researched: concentration, governance. These are excluded from the score rather than guessed, so the real risk may be higher than what’s shown.

Ratings summarise sourced facts against fixed rules — not investment advice, and no substitute for your own diligence.

Risk Profile

Medium-High Risk(2.5/5)80% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility2.7/5 · weight 20%
  • Annualised volatility (3yr)2/518.4
  • Max drawdown from ATH4/575.8
  • Beta vs S&P 5002/50.66
Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%
  • Avg daily $ volume1/5472.3m
  • Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched
Leverage / Financial4.0/5 · weight 20%
  • Debt / equity4/52.4
  • Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)not yet researched
Earnings Quality2.0/5 · weight 15%
  • 3yr EPS volatility2/515.5
Concentrationunrated · weight 10%
  • Largest customer, % of revenuenot yet researched
  • Geographic revenue concentrationnot yet researched
Governanceunrated · weight 10%
  • Board independence %not yet researched
  • Share structurenot yet researched
  • Litigation / audit historynot yet researched
Sector / Regulatory2.0/5 · weight 10%
  • Sector regulatory exposure2/5moderate

Linked Assets

Same sector, or return-correlated — worth knowing what else might move if this one does.