Waste Management, Inc
WM, previously known as Waste Management, ranks as the largest integrated provider of traditional solid waste services in the United States, operating 262 active landfill sites and about 339 transfer stations that help with transporting waste efficiently and economically. The company serves residential, commercial, industrial, and medical end markets for waste collection, transfer, and disposal. The company also has an energy business emanating from the beneficial use of landfill gas and is a leading recycler in North America.www.wm.com
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Sep 9, 2026
David GardnerHOST
Waste Management is up, well, 240%, almost right in line with that market, but about double the performance of Ecolab.
David GardnerHOST
But Waste Management, ticker symbol WM, has been doing more same old compared with what Ecolab has been attempting.
David GardnerHOST
Rick, is this, is this a company you'd, you'd put in your portfolio today thinking, "Hey, I think this thing could beat the market over the next five years," or not?
Rick MunarrizGUEST
I, I, I think Ecolab, yeah, I, I think it can at this point, and largely because, again, it's, it hasn't really fully appreciated the fact that it's moved into all these growth businesses because it's not showing, uh, on, just yet.
TKHOST
one.
TKHOST
And the Wilds and the Knights, I reckon, are leading the club social media at WM.
TKHOST
If there was one.
TKHOST
They're both killing it this year.
Jon QuastHOST
And this question is for anyone.
Jon QuastHOST
"While comparing company stocks, are there metrics that speak to the underlying structure of a business which potentially might suggest how much they would return to their investors over time? For example, Coca-Cola has higher return on invested capital than S&P Global and WM, but it hasn't returned nearly as much historically with dividends reinvested.
Jon QuastHOST
So I don't know if ROIC is the right metric to monitor, or if I should compare these businesses at all since they are in separate sectors.
Jon QuastHOST
But to include one in my portfolio, I need to make assumptions about how much my money would grow if I had invested in each of them.
Smylie KaufmanHOST
We're gonna still get our guys, guys that like to play and top players to, to still have the names that we need to, to at least look good on paper." Uh, because it's normally like a very, very deep field of sorts, you know, the way it's kinda shaped out over the last couple years.
Smylie KaufmanHOST
But now as we think about 2028, that's a huge question mark is like does WM feel like, you know, it's like, we make a ton of money.
Smylie KaufmanHOST
Do we just wanna, do we wanna give them $30 million for something that won't necessarily change the amount of people that are going to show up? It's not gonna change the amount of money that they raise, you wouldn't think.
Smylie KaufmanHOST
Uh, but there are a ton of pros to having all of the best of the 120 being at your place versus they used to get a bit of a mix-
Brady WilsonHOST
He's been very good this year.
Brady WilsonHOST
He showed up on the scene at WM, and everyone's like, who's this guy who's leading most of that tournament, right? And then was solid all year.
Brady WilsonHOST
I mean, that's a player that probably was not on the radar for the last year.
Brady WilsonHOST
But this year, bounced up there.
James MaloneyPANELIST
when everyone's talking about guys, this is a guy who was early on, everyone's going, oh, I can't believe he's not picked in State of Origin.
James MaloneyPANELIST
He was leading WM.
James MaloneyPANELIST
So this is another forgotten part.
James MaloneyPANELIST
Obviously, their forward pack, their experience and that through the middle.
Michelle MartinGUEST
And the more I fight it, the more like everything is centered around him, which is like, But yes, this is my life and my career, right? So anyway, at one point I go and I work in a recycling plant.
Michelle MartinGUEST
And I just love recycling in WM.
Michelle MartinGUEST
Love it, love it, love it.
Michelle MartinGUEST
And unfortunately, we had a massive fire.
Joe SullivanHOST
What does it look like to market safety in particular to your own people?
Brian FielkowGUEST
I learned this very well when I was at Waste Management.
Brian FielkowGUEST
I worked with a brilliant executive, his name is Jim Schultz.
Brian FielkowGUEST
Jim and I actually wound up writing a book together about 10 years ago called Leading People Safely.
Brian FielkowGUEST
But Jim, this was probably the early 2000s, came to Waste and their safety performance was not good.
Brian FielkowGUEST
And Jim really led them on a worst to first journey.
Brian FielkowGUEST
And there's a lot to be proud of at Waste Management to this day because of some of the seeds that Jim planted.
Brian FielkowGUEST
But one of them was simplifying process and branding.
Bob CordaroHOST
It's owned by Waste Management.
Bob CordaroHOST
WM is the company.
Bob CordaroHOST
5,500 a day.
Bob CordaroHOST
Well, if you take somewhere around their maximum, you've got 4.5 million tons a year.
Gabe FilippelliHOST
She holds a BFA and MFA from Heron School of Art and Design here in Indianapolis, where she currently teaches as an associate faculty.
Gabe FilippelliHOST
She has completed murals across Indiana for organizations including the NBA, WNBA, WM, Children's Museum, Eskenazi Health, Indy Parks, and more.
Gabe FilippelliHOST
Kay and Christina, welcome to The Collective Tap.
Kay HawthorneGUEST
Thank you.
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