Stock News Alert: Waste Connections (NYSE:WCN)

Waste Connections (NYSE:WCN) stock observed trading -0.32% off 52-week high price. On the other end, the stock has been noted 24.34% away from low price over the last 52-weeks. The stock disclosed a move of 6.82% away from 50 day moving average and 8.07% away from 200 day moving average. Moving closer, we can see that shares have been trading 2.15% off 20-day moving average. It has market cap of $26.63B and dividend yield of 0.74%.

On Feb. 12, 2020, Waste Connections (NYSE:WCN) notified that its Board of Directors has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.185 U.S. per common share of the Company. The regular quarterly cash dividend will be paid on March 12, 2020, to shareholders of record at the close of business on February 27, 2020.  The Board intends to review the quarterly dividend each October, with a long-term objective of increasing the amount of the dividend.

Shareholders of Waste Connections whose common shares are held by a bank or broker that participates in U.S. depositary DTC will receive payment of their dividends in U.S. dollars.  Shareholders of Waste Connections whose common shares are held by a bank or broker that participates in Canadian depositary CDS will receive payment of their dividends in Canadian dollars, calculated based on the Bank of Canada’s daily average exchange rate on February 27, 2020. Shareholders of Waste Connections who hold their shares in direct registration with Computershare, the Company’s transfer agent, will receive payment of their dividends in Canadian dollars if they are residents of Canada, as reflected in Waste Connections’ shareholders register, and will receive their dividend payments in U.S. dollars if they are not residents of Canada, including if they are residents of the U.S.

 The USA based company Waste Connections moved with change of 0.59% to $100.29 with the total traded volume of 862294 shares in recent session versus to an average volume of 850.43K shares. The stock was observed in the 5 days activity at 0.59%. The one month performance of stock was 5.50%. WCN’s shares are at 13.25% for the quarter and driving a 18.06% return over the course of the past year and is now at 10.46% since this point in 2018.  Right now the stock beta is 0.12. The average volatility for the week and month was at 1.11% and 1.23% respectively. There are 265.55M shares outstanding and 262.81M shares are floated in market.

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