Waste Management Stocks To Consider – July 27th

Halliburton, Waste Management, Rockwell Automation, Fluor, and Cemex are the five Waste Management stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Waste management stocks are publicly traded shares of companies that collect, transport, process, recycle and dispose of municipal, industrial or hazardous waste, as well as provide related environmental services. They’re often seen as defensive investments, offering stable cash flows and potential regulatory barriers to entry that can help sustain long-term profitability. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Waste Management stocks within the last several days.

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 HAL traded up $0.05 during midday trading on Friday, hitting $22.47. The company had a trading volume of 15,727,914 shares, compared to its average volume of 14,436,213. The company has a quick ratio of 1.46, a current ratio of 2.00 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68. Halliburton has a 52 week low of $18.72 and a 52 week high of $34.97. The company’s 50 day moving average price is $21.22 and its 200 day moving average price is $23.21. The stock has a market cap of $19.31 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 10.50, a PEG ratio of 3.79 and a beta of 1.13.

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.

Shares of NYSE:WM traded down $1.03 during trading on Friday, reaching $229.58. 1,126,277 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 1,581,502. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.65, a current ratio of 0.83 and a quick ratio of 0.79. The company has a 50 day moving average of $231.81 and a 200-day moving average of $227.44. The stock has a market capitalization of $92.39 billion, a P/E ratio of 34.63, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.85 and a beta of 0.64. Waste Management has a 12 month low of $196.59 and a 12 month high of $242.58.

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 $1.86 during midday trading on Friday, reaching $358.87. 642,538 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 782,185. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $329.75 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $289.87. The firm has a market cap of $40.45 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 45.20, a PEG ratio of 3.66 and a beta of 1.38. Rockwell Automation has a fifty-two week low of $215.00 and a fifty-two week high of $360.92. The company has a current ratio of 1.05, a quick ratio of 0.72 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.71.

Fluor (FLR)

Fluor Corporation provides engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC); fabrication and modularization; operation and maintenance; asset integrity; and project management services worldwide. The company operates through Energy Solutions, Urban Solutions, Mission Solutions, and Other segments. The Energy Solutions segment provides solutions to the energy transition markets, including asset decarbonization, carbon capture, renewable fuels, waste-to-energy, green chemicals, hydrogen, nuclear power, and other low-carbon energy sources.

Shares of NYSE:FLR traded up $0.99 during trading on Friday, reaching $56.61. The company had a trading volume of 2,819,767 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,871,179. The firm’s fifty day moving average is $48.44 and its 200 day moving average is $42.76. The firm has a market capitalization of $9.32 billion, a PE ratio of 5.43, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.72 and a beta of 1.34. Fluor has a twelve month low of $29.20 and a twelve month high of $60.10. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.30, a quick ratio of 1.74 and a current ratio of 1.74.

Cemex (CX)

CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V., together with its subsidiaries, produces, markets, distributes, and sells cement, ready-mix concrete, aggregates, urbanization solutions, and other construction materials and services worldwide. The company offers gray ordinary portland, white portland, oil-well, and blended cement products; mortar; and standard ready-mix, architectural and decorative, rapid-setting, fiber-reinforced, fluid-fill, roller-compacted, self-consolidating, pervious, and antibacterial, and other concrete products.

CX stock traded up $0.15 on Friday, hitting $8.40. 9,945,141 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 11,389,106. Cemex has a 1-year low of $4.89 and a 1-year high of $8.46. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $7.13 and a 200-day moving average of $6.38. The company has a current ratio of 0.85, a quick ratio of 0.60 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.44. The stock has a market cap of $12.17 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 8.23, a P/E/G ratio of 1.04 and a beta of 1.38.