Welcome to our dedicated page for Waste Management SEC filings (Ticker: WM), a comprehensive resource for investors and traders seeking official regulatory documents including 10-K annual reports, 10-Q quarterly earnings, 8-K material events, and insider trading forms.
The WM (Waste Management) SEC filings page on Stock Titan brings together the company’s regulatory disclosures as filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. WM’s common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol WM, and its SEC filings provide detailed information on financial performance, governance, compensation and significant corporate events.
Investors can use this page to access Form 10-K annual reports and Form 10-Q quarterly reports, which include audited and interim financial statements, management’s discussion and analysis and segment information for WM’s environmental services operations, including its WM Legacy Business and WM Healthcare Solutions segment. These filings expand on topics often summarized in earnings press releases, such as revenue, operating EBITDA, margins, cash flow and capital expenditure plans.
Frequent Form 8-K current reports from WM disclose material events, including quarterly and annual earnings announcements, investor day materials, changes in executive leadership, compensation arrangements and other significant updates. For example, recent 8-K filings have covered quarterly financial results, executive transitions in the chief financial officer role, retention awards for senior leaders and information related to investor presentations.
Through this page, users can also monitor proxy statements related to governance and executive compensation, as well as Form 4 and other insider trading reports when available. Stock Titan enhances access to these documents with AI-powered summaries that explain key points in plain language, highlight important changes from prior periods and help readers quickly understand the implications of complex filings without replacing the underlying official documents.
Filings are updated in near real time as new documents are posted to the SEC’s EDGAR system, allowing investors, analysts and other interested readers to follow WM’s regulatory disclosures, capital allocation decisions and governance developments directly from primary sources.
Waste Management SVP-Chief Information Officer Johnson Varkey reported a routine tax-withholding disposition of 192 shares of Common Stock at $233.935 per share. The shares were withheld to settle taxes on a restricted share award under the Waste Management, Inc. 2014 Stock Incentive Plan.
After this transaction, Varkey directly holds 9,100.7856 shares of Waste Management common stock. The filing reflects compensation-related share settlement rather than an open-market sale.
Waste Management, Inc. is asking stockholders to vote at its 2026 Annual Meeting on electing nine directors, ratifying Ernst & Young LLP as auditor, approving a non-binding advisory vote on executive compensation and amending and restating its Employee Stock Purchase Plan to increase authorized shares.
The meeting is scheduled for May 12, 2026 in Houston, with 402,913,509 common shares entitled to vote as of March 17, 2026. The proxy describes board independence, risk and sustainability oversight, and details of non-employee director cash retainers and stock-based compensation.
Waste Management Inc filing: The Vanguard Group amended its Schedule 13G to report 0 shares beneficially owned of Waste Management common stock, representing 0% of the class. The amendment states Vanguard completed an internal realignment on January 12, 2026, after which certain subsidiaries report ownership separately in reliance on SEC Release No. 34-39538.
Waste Management, Inc. entered into Amendment No. 2 to its Seventh Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Agreement on March 20, 2026. The amendment changes the definitions of EBIT and EBITDA used in the leverage ratio covenant so that equity-based compensation and interest accretion can be added back as non-cash items.
These changes are described as intended to enhance comparability by aligning the covenant calculations with how certain industry peers treat these non-cash expenses. The amendment applies to the existing revolving credit facility among Waste Management, its Canadian subsidiaries as borrowers, and Bank of America, N.A. as administrative agent.
Waste Management, Inc. awarded a $1 million cash transition success bonus to former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Devina Rankin on March 13, 2026. The company explains this recognizes the value delivered to stockholders from her leadership in completing an orderly CFO transition and advancing integration of its Healthcare Solutions business.
Ms. Rankin had voluntarily resigned as CFO effective November 1, 2025 after a 23-year career with nearly nine years in the CFO role, then continued as an executive advisor at her prior base salary through March 13, 2026 to support the handover. The bonus is in addition to her 2025 annual cash incentive award and is governed by a transition success bonus letter agreement filed as an exhibit.
Waste Management EVP & CFO David L. Reed reported routine share activity. He completed an open-market sale of 75 shares of Common Stock at $245.26 per share and had 121 shares withheld earlier at $246.31 per share to cover tax obligations tied to a restricted share award. The filing notes the sale of additional shares was made under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan and also corrects a prior administrative error that had overstated his beneficial ownership by 3 shares. After these transactions, Reed directly holds about 8,494.6057 Waste Management shares.
Waste Management President & COO John J. Morris reported an option exercise and share sale. He exercised stock options covering 5,484 shares of common stock at $150.1150 per share, converting them into common shares. On the same date, he completed an open-market sale of 4,211 common shares at a weighted average price of $243.3775 per share, with individual trades executed between $243.3700 and $244.7375. After these transactions, he directly holds 99,929 common shares and has an additional 2,439.3761 shares held indirectly through a 401(k) plan, and no stock options remain from this grant.
Waste Management SVP-Chief Information Officer Johnson Varkey reported two stock transactions involving company common shares. On March 9, 2026, he completed an open-market sale of 121 shares at an average price of $245.2679 per share, executed under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan to help cover a personal federal income tax obligation. Following this sale, his direct holdings were 9,292.7856 common shares.
Earlier, on March 7, 2026, 193 shares were disposed of at $246.3100 per share as a tax-withholding transaction, satisfying tax due on the settlement of a restricted share award granted under the Waste Management, Inc. 2014 Stock Incentive Plan. This tax withholding was not an open-market sale.
Waste Management’s VP & Chief Accounting Officer John A. Carroll reported routine share dispositions. A restricted share award under the company’s 2014 Stock Incentive Plan triggered withholding of 74 common shares to pay taxes. He also completed an open-market sale of 47 common shares at $245.3001 per share to cover personal federal income tax under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. After these transactions, he directly holds 8,983.3039 common shares.