CT:WCN Waste Connections, Inc
Waste Connections, Inc., a solid waste services company, provides waste collection, transfer, disposal, and recycling services in the United States and Canada. The company operates through six segments: Southern, Western, Eastern, Canada, Central, and Exploration and Production (E&P). It offers collection services to residential, commercial, municipal, industrial, and E&P customers; landfill disposal services; and recycling services for various recyclable materials, including compost, cardboard, office paper, plastic containers, glass bottles, and ferrous and aluminum metals. The company also owns and operates transfer stations that receive compact and load waste to be transported to landfills or treatment facilities through truck, rail, or barge; and intermodal services for the rail haul movement of cargo and solid waste containers in the Pacific Northwest through a network of intermodal facilities. In addition, it provides E&P waste treatment, recovery, and disposal services for waste resulting from oil and natural gas exploration and production activity, such as drilling fluids, drill cuttings, completion fluids, and flowback water; production wastes and produced water during a well's operating life; contaminated soils that require treatment during site reclamation; and substances that require clean-up after a spill, reserve pit clean-up, or pipeline rupture. Further, the company offers container and chassis sales and leasing services to its customers. As of December 31, 2017, it owned or operated a network of 261 solid waste collection operations; 146 transfer stations; 6 intermodal facilities; 66 recycling operations; 90 active MSW, E&P, and/or non-MSW landfills; 22 E&P liquid waste injection wells; and 19 E&P waste treatment and oil recovery facilities. Waste Connections, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is based in Vaughan, Canada.
This company cross-lists their shares on a U.S. stock exchange. See the related U.S. symbol WCN.
This company has cross-listed shares that trade in the U.S. as the symbol WCN.
183.43 CAD
As of 03/24/2023
Security Information
Category1: Global Equity
Category2: Common stocks
Category3: Developed markets ex-US
GICS sector: Industrials
Industry: Waste Management
Index country: Canada
Country of incorporation: Canada
IPO date: 05/31/2016
Stock exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange
Exchange country: Canada
Market cap: 41,359,716,352 CAD
Current dividend yield: 0.75%
Sedol: BYQFRK5