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 Inc ownership filing: Vanguard Capital Management reported beneficial ownership of 28,904,129 shares of Common Stock, representing 7.16% of the class as shown in the filing. The filing states Vanguard has sole dispositive power over 28,904,129 shares and sole voting power for 3,734,616 shares. The schedule discloses that these holdings include shares held for Vanguard funds and managed accounts and attributes voting/dispositive powers to affiliated business units.
Waste Management, Inc. reported solid first-quarter 2026 results, with operating revenues of $6,227 million, up from $6,018 million a year earlier. Income from operations rose to $1,113 million, and net income attributable to the company increased to $723 million, or $1.79 per diluted share, versus $637 million and $1.58 in 2025.
Operating cash flow strengthened to $1,501 million, funding $650 million of capital expenditures, $354 million of share repurchases and $385 million of cash dividends. Total assets were $45,700 million and total debt was $22,891 million as of March 31, 2026, with stockholders’ equity of $10,021 million.
WM reported solid first quarter 2026 results with higher profit, margins and cash flow. Revenue reached $6.23 billion, up from $6.02 billion, while income from operations increased to $1.11 billion and net income rose to $723 million.
Adjusted operating EBITDA was $1.85 billion with a 29.8% margin, up from $1.75 billion and 29.1% a year earlier. Net cash provided by operating activities grew to $1.50 billion, and free cash flow climbed to $920 million, as WM reaffirmed its full‑year financial outlook.
The company highlighted disciplined pricing, cost optimization and contributions from sustainability growth projects, and noted it returned nearly $730 million to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases in the quarter.
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.