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Barbara Noverini
EUR 98.48 For Business Accounts Only

Waste Management Firing on All Cylinders After Strong First Quarter, but Shares Still Look Rich

We’re raising narrow moat Waste Management’s fair value estimate to $61 per share from $54. Time value of money added $2 per share since our last update, while the remainder came from lowering our U.S. federal statutory tax rate assumption to 25%, consistent with Morningstar’s belief that U.S corporate tax reform is likely in 2018.
That said, Waste Management’s shares slumped on Wednesday as margin growth failed to match the strong cadence of revenue, stoking fears that shares are priced for per...
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Waste Management Inc.

Waste Management is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of waste management environmental services. The company partners with its residential, commercial, industrial and municipal customers and the communities it serves to manage and reduce waste at each stage from collection to disposal, while recovering resources and creating renewable energy. The company's Solid Waste business is operated and managed by its subsidiaries that focus on various geographic areas and provide collection, transfer, disposal, and recycling and resource recovery services. Through its subsidiaries, the company is also a developer, operator and owner of landfill gas-to-energy facilities.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Barbara Noverini

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