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Company Description

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Sector: Industrial Goods

Industry: Waste Management

Country: United States

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Wednesday, April 24, 4:38 PM Waste Connections (WCN): Q1 EPS of $0.37 beats by $0.04. Revenue of $449.9M (+19.5% Y/Y). (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Breaking News]
Wednesday, February 20, 5:17 PM Waste Connections (WCN): Q4 EPS of $0.37 misses by $0.01. Revenue of $448.8M (+18.2% Y/Y) beats by $3.1M. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Breaking News]
Monday, October 22, 2012, 4:52 PM Waste Connections (WCN) declares $0.10/share quarterly dividend, 11.1% increase from prior dividend of $0.09. Forward yield 1.25%. For shareholders of record Nov 05. Payable Nov 19. Ex-div date Nov 01. Shares +1.8% AH. (PR) Comment! [Dividends, On the Move]
Monday, October 22, 2012, 4:11 PM Waste Connections (WCN): Q3 EPS of $0.40 beats by $0.02. Revenue of $425.7M (+5.4% Y/Y) beats by $3.7M. (PR) Comment! [Earnings]
Wednesday, September 26, 2012, 7:57 AM Waste Connections (WCN) is initiated with a Buy rating and $37 price target at Keybanc, which notes the R360 acquisition should be solidly accretive to 2013 EPS. The firm says WCN should continue to generate superior cash flow relative to its peers and deploy it via additional M&A, share buybacks and possible dividend increases. WCN +0.7% premarket. Comment! [Quick Ideas]
Monday, September 17, 2012, 8:34 AM Waste Connections (WCN) agrees to acquire the business and operating subsidiaries of R360 Environmental Solutions for ~$1.3B. R360 is a provider of non-hazardous oilfield waste treatment, recovery and disposal services in such active oil- and gas-producing areas as the Permian, Bakken and Eagle Ford basins. Comment! [Energy, M&A]
Monday, July 23, 2012, 4:32 PM Waste Connections (WCN): Q2 EPS of $0.36 in-line. Revenue of $410.7M (+5.3% Y/Y) in-line. (PR) Comment! [Earnings]
Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 6:25 PM Waste Connections (WCN): Q1 EPS of $0.32 in-line. Revenue of $376.4M (+13.5% Y/Y) beats by $2.4M. (PR) Comment! [Earnings]
Monday, April 9, 2012, 1:51 PM Gabelli recommends long-term investors take advantage of weakness in the waste industry sector to buy, noting that the companies have relatively high margins, stable revenue flows, and high barriers to entry. The firm's favorites in the space, in order of preference, are: Republic Services (RSG -0.5%), Waste Connections (WCN -1.2%), and Casella Waste (CWST -1.9%). 1 Comment [Quick Ideas]
Monday, February 27, 2012, 5:06 PM Waste Connections (WCN) -2.8% AH after announcing a 12M share stock offering, good for proceeds of $381.8M based on today's close. The company plans to partly use the proceeds to "repay the unhedged portion" of borrowings made under an existing credit facility. Comment! [On the Move]
Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 6:49 PM Waste Connections (WCN): Q4 EPS of $0.35 in-line. Revenue of $379.8M (+13% Y/Y) beats by $3M. (PR) Comment! [Earnings]
Friday, February 3, 2012, 3:17 PM These 10 undervalued stocks could rise by as much as 58% this year, J.P. Morgan says: HES, ERJ, FCX, ALL, ACI, NOV, AA, MET, FLR, WCN. Comment! [Quick Ideas]
Tuesday, October 18, 2011, 4:15 PM Waste Connections (WCN): Q3 EPS of $0.42 beats by $0.02. Revenue of $404M (+17% Y/Y) beats by $5M. (PR) Comment! [Earnings]
Tuesday, October 18, 2011, 12:10 AM Notable earnings after Tuesday's close: AAPL, CCK, CREE, CSX, FULT, INTC, ISRG, JNPR, LLTC, URI, WCN, YHOO Comment! [Earnings]
Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 4:28 PM Waste Connections (WCN): Q2 EPS of $0.37 beats by $0.02. Revenue of $267M (-11.8%) vs. $2987M. Says it was able to resume share buyback program due to aggressive cost cutting. Shares -0.7% AH. (PR) Comment!
Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 4:29 PM Waste Connections (WCN): EPS of $0.39 in-line. Revenue of $267M (+10.7%) in-line. [PR] Comment!

Jim Van Meerten
$WCN - 96% Barchart technical buy signals - 8 new highs and up 12.95% in the last month - Relative Strength Index 73.90%
May 23, 4:49 PM
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Jim Van Meerten
$WCN - 100% Barchart technical buy signals - 5 new highs and up 5.06% in the last month - Relative Strength Index 73.70%
Apr 30, 10:43 AM
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ltfinger
Returning Upgrades (4/25/13): $PDFS, $PLCE, $PVR, $RRD, $SFE, $TER, $TVL, $TYL, $UPS, $WCN
Apr 26, 11:04 AM
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Jim Van Meerten
$WCN - 96% Barchart technical buy signals - 6 new highs and up 1.90% in the last month - Relative Strength Index 60.01%
Apr 16, 2:14 PM
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$CSP $WCN $MS and $ITUB are the only stocks going ex-dividend tomorrow + http://stks.co/q1Ih + CSP is the best yielding one
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Jim Van Meerten
$WCN - 100% Barchart technical buy signals - 9 new hgihs and up 6.93% in the last month - Relative Strength Index 74.48%
Jan 29, 9:47 AM
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Dividend Growth Stocks From Last Week + http://stks.co/nDQU + $V $SPG $AFL $WPZ $VFC $NBL $HSY $HOT $MWE $MSM $WCN $BRO $SIX $ACMP $APL
10/28/12
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http://bit.ly/SegPDO After-Hours Earnings for Oct 22,2012; $CNI, $TXN, $YHOO, $WDC, $CE, $WRB, $ACC, $ZION, $WCN, $IEX, $ELS, $CR
10/22/12
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Alan Brochstein
Did $WCN overpay???
10/6/12
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Alan Brochstein
$CLH is very oversold. $WCN validated their strategy with huge energy services buy
9/30/12
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