Best Waste Management Stocks To Keep An Eye On – May 8th

Rockwell Automation, Halliburton, and Waste Management are the three Waste Management stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Waste management stocks are shares of companies that collect, process, recycle, and dispose of residential, commercial and industrial waste. These firms often operate landfills, recycling facilities and waste-to-energy plants under regulatory oversight. Investors favor them for their steady cash flows and defensive characteristics, since waste services remain in demand across economic cycles. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Waste Management stocks within the last several days.

Rockwell Automation (ROK)

Rockwell Automation, Inc. provides industrial automation and digital transformation solutions in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and Latin America. The company operates through three segments, Intelligent Devices, Software & Control, and Lifecycle Services. Its solutions include hardware and software products and services.

Rockwell Automation stock traded up $9.09 during midday trading on Thursday, reaching $292.26. The stock had a trading volume of 1,027,818 shares, compared to its average volume of 953,821. The firm has a market cap of $33.05 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 36.40, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.53 and a beta of 1.32. The company has a fifty day moving average of $251.08 and a 200 day moving average of $273.39. Rockwell Automation has a 52-week low of $215.00 and a 52-week high of $308.70. The company has a quick ratio of 0.72, a current ratio of 1.08 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.72.

Halliburton (HAL)

Halliburton Company provides products and services to the energy industry worldwide. It operates through two segments, Completion and Production, and Drilling and Evaluation. The Completion and Production segment offers production enhancement services that include stimulation and sand control services; cementing services, such as well bonding and casing, and casing equipment; and completion tools that offer downhole solutions and services, including well completion products and services, intelligent well completions, and service tools, as well as liner hanger, sand control, and multilateral systems.

Shares of NYSE HAL traded up $0.98 during mid-day trading on Thursday, reaching $20.34. The company had a trading volume of 10,434,863 shares, compared to its average volume of 12,860,681. The stock has a market cap of $17.49 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 7.19, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.79 and a beta of 1.19. The company has a current ratio of 2.05, a quick ratio of 1.54 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68. Halliburton has a 52 week low of $18.72 and a 52 week high of $38.35. The business’s 50-day moving average is $22.71 and its 200-day moving average is $26.26.

Waste Management (WM)

Waste Management, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of environmental solutions to residential, commercial, industrial, and municipal customers in the United States and Canada. It offers collection services, including picking up and transporting waste and recyclable materials from where it was generated to a transfer station, material recovery facility (MRF), or disposal site; and owns and operates transfer stations, as well as owns, develops, and operates landfill facilities that produce landfill gas used as renewable natural gas for generating electricity.

NYSE WM traded down $0.67 during midday trading on Thursday, hitting $234.84. 884,013 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 1,640,199. The company has a market cap of $94.50 billion, a PE ratio of 34.54, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.71 and a beta of 0.67. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.73, a current ratio of 0.76 and a quick ratio of 0.85. The company’s 50-day simple moving average is $228.49 and its 200-day simple moving average is $220.79. Waste Management has a 52 week low of $196.59 and a 52 week high of $239.32.