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Profile - Waste Management Inc. (NYSE:WMI)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug  8Earnings Announcement
Location
1001 Fannin St., Suite 4000
Houston, TX 77002
Phone: (713) 512-6200
Fax: (713) 209-9710
Email: webmaster@wm.com
Employees (last reported count): 57,000
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 ·Sector: Services
 ·Industry: Waste Management Services
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 22%
·Institutional: 82% (105% of float)
(1,105 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 2.54M shares
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Waste Management, Inc. provides waste services in North America. Through its subsidiaries, the Company provides collection, transfer, recycling and resource recovery and disposal services. The Company is also a developer, operator and owner of waste-to-energy facilities in the United States. The Company had similar operations internationally. The Company's other segment consists of non-solid waste management services, which includes hazardous waste services (other than hazardous waste landfills) such as chemical waste management services, the Company's independent power projects, and other non-solid waste services that are provided to commercial, industrial and government customers.
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Financial Summary
Waste Management Inc. provides integrated waste management services consisting of collection, transfer, disposal, recycling and resource recovery services as well as other hazardous waste services to commercial, industrial, municipal and residential customers. For the six months ended 6/01, sales fell 13% to $5.63 billion. Net income before extraordinary item and acct. change totaled $314 million, up from $55 million. Revenues reflect divestitures. Earnings reflect lower S/G/A expenses.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Pay

A. Maurice Myers, 60
Chairman, CEO, Pres
$1.9M
William Trubeck, 54
Exec. VP, CFO
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Lawrence O'Donnell, III, 43
Exec. VP, Western Area
--  
David Steiner
Sr. VP, Gen. Counsel, Sec.
--  
James Trevathan, 47
Sr. VP of Sales and Marketing
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Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-2000 and compensation values are for the fiscal year ending on that date; "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc..
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Statistics at a Glance -- NYSE:WMIAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 29-Sep-2000
$17.125
Recent Price$30.93 
52-Week High
on 20-July-2001
$31.85 
Beta0.37 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)2.25M
Daily Volume (10-day avg)1.80M
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change+65.0%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+121.3%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$19.4B
Shares Outstanding626.3M
Float488.5M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividend (indicated)$0.01 
Dividend Yield0.03%
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$8.29 
Earnings (ttm)$0.25 
Earnings (mrq)$0.30 
Sales (ttm)$18.50 
Cash (mrq)$0.63 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)3.73 
Price/Earnings (ttm)124.22 
Price/Sales (ttm)1.67 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$11.6B
EBITDA (ttm)$2.60B
Income available to common (ttm)$161.7M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)1.4%
Operating Margin (ttm)10.3%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)0.84%
Return on Equity (ttm)3.33%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)0.85 
Debt/Equity (mrq)1.61 
Total Cash (mrq)$396.0M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short8.53M
Percent of Float1.7%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
8.91M
Short Ratio3.67 
Daily Volume2.33M
See Profile Help for a description of each item above;   M = millions;   B = billions;   mrq = most-recent quarter;   ttm = trailing twelve months;   (as of 30-June-2001)

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