WM Announces Planned 14.5% Dividend Increase and $3 Billion Share Repurchase Authorization, Positioning the Company to Deliver Outsized Shareholder Returns in 2026
Waste Management, Inc. (WM)
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HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WM (NYSE: WM) today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a capital allocation program that includes a planned 14.5% increase in the 2026 dividend rate and a new $3 billion share repurchase authorization, superseding the authority remaining under the prior $1.5 billion repurchase authorization announced in 2023. The planned quarterly dividend rate of $0.945 per share in 2026, up from $0.825 per share in 2025, marks the twenty-third consecutive year of dividend increases and raises the annual dividend rate to $3.78 per share.“Our business continues to generate strong, predictable cash flow that fuels shareholder returns and supports our disciplined approach to capital allocation,” said Jim Fish, Chief Executive Officer of WM. “In recent years, we’ve made intentional investments to drive organic growth, particularly in our recycling and renewable energy businesses, and we are entering a period of harvesting the strong returns from those investm
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