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WM Dividend History, Yield & Dates
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WMWaste Management, Inc.
Industrials / Waste Management
Low Priority
Above Peers
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- Momentum88
- Value48
- Quality45
- Risk resilience51
- Sentiment62
WM Dividend answer
Waste Management, Inc. (WM) pays a quarterly dividend. Forward dividend yield: 1.65%, or $3.78 a year at the latest dividend. Trailing 12-month yield: 1.59%, from $3.66 per share paid over the past year. Its latest dividend was $0.945 per share. Latest ex-dividend date: Sep 11, 2026. Payment date: Sep 25, 2026. Next dividend status: not announced.
WM Dividend Snapshot
Dividend growth, consistency, payout ratio, FCF coverage, and long history are emphasized for this stock. Yield methodology is labeled separately from payout coverage.
Next WM Dividend Date
When WM next goes ex-dividend, the amount where it has been declared, and whether that state is announced, projected or not yet known.
Next WM dividend
WM's next dividend has not yet been announced. The latest completed dividend was $0.945 per share. Data last checked: Oct 4, 2026.
Latest WM Dividend Dates
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WM Dividend History
Recent per-share dividends show payment cadence. Trailing-year and growth reads are shown only when the available rows cover a complete comparable window.
Dividend reliability
Recent dividend payments are summarized as cadence and coverage signals. Exact rows remain below for auditability.
WM Annual Dividend History
WM Dividend Growth
Latest row amount $0.945, event yield 1.70%.
This page labels the feed as recent history when multi-year rows, payment dates, or record dates are incomplete. Announced calendar dates are separated from completed dividend history.
Dividend growth
- 5-year regular dividend CAGR
- 8.65%
- Cohort rank
- #129
- Cohort standing
- Top half
- Industrials rank
- #24
- 2020 regular DPS
- $2.180
- 2025 regular DPS
- $3.300
- Absolute change
- $1.120
- Years increased
- 5
- Years reduced
- 0
WM's split-adjusted regular dividend per share grew at 8.65% a year from 2020 through 2025, ranking #129 among US dividend-paying corporations that never cut the payout in AlgovestIQ's study.
Split-adjusted regular dividends per share, 2020–2025, excluding special dividends. Research as of Sep 19, 2026.
WM Dividend Yield
How WM's trailing 12-month dividend yield is calculated, and what it does and does not account for.
Yield methodology
WM's trailing dividend yield is the regular dividends paid over the last twelve months divided by the latest available share price. Payouts classified as special or supplemental are excluded, because a one-off payment is not recurring income. It is a backward-looking measure and is not the same as a forward yield, which annualises the most recent declared payment instead.
Dividend coverage
Coverage is read from earnings and cash flow rather than from the yield. A payout ratio leaves room, or does not; free cash flow either covers the payment, or the company is funding it another way. These are inputs to a judgement, not a guarantee of future payments.
Recent WM dividend payments
| Ex-date | Dividend | Adjusted | Yield at ex-date | Frequency | TTM adjusted | Declared | Record date | Payment date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 2026 | $0.945 | $0.945 | 1.70% | Quarterly | $3.66 | Aug 24, 2026 | Sep 11, 2026 | Sep 25, 2026 |
| Jun 5, 2026 | $0.945 | $0.945 | 1.61% | Quarterly | $3.54 | May 11, 2026 | Jun 5, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 |
| Mar 13, 2026 | $0.945 | $0.945 | 1.43% | Quarterly | $3.42 | Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 13, 2026 | Mar 27, 2026 |
| Dec 5, 2025 | $0.825 | $0.825 | 1.55% | Quarterly | $3.30 | Nov 13, 2025 | Dec 5, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 |
| Sep 12, 2025 | $0.825 | $0.825 | 1.48% | Quarterly | $3.22 | Aug 22, 2025 | Sep 12, 2025 | Sep 26, 2025 |
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| Jun 6, 2025 | $0.825 | $0.825 | 1.33% | Quarterly | $3.15 | May 12, 2025 | Jun 6, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 |
| Mar 14, 2025 | $0.825 | $0.825 | 1.37% | Quarterly | $3.08 | Feb 17, 2025 | Mar 14, 2025 | Mar 28, 2025 |
| Dec 6, 2024 | $0.75 | $0.75 | 1.35% | Quarterly | $3.00 | Nov 14, 2024 | Dec 6, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 |
| Sep 13, 2024 | $0.75 | $0.75 | 1.42% | Quarterly | $2.95 | Aug 26, 2024 | Sep 13, 2024 | Sep 27, 2024 |
| Jun 7, 2024 | $0.75 | $0.75 | 1.45% | Quarterly | $2.90 | May 13, 2024 | Jun 7, 2024 | Jun 21, 2024 |
| Mar 14, 2024 | $0.75 | $0.75 | 1.36% | Quarterly | $2.85 | Mar 1, 2024 | Mar 15, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 |
| Nov 30, 2023 | $0.70 | $0.70 | 1.64% | Quarterly | $2.80 | Nov 6, 2023 | Dec 1, 2023 | Dec 15, 2023 |
| Sep 7, 2023 | $0.70 | $0.70 | 1.75% | Quarterly | $2.75 | Aug 21, 2023 | Sep 8, 2023 | Sep 22, 2023 |
| Jun 1, 2023 | $0.70 | $0.70 | 1.66% | Quarterly | $2.70 | May 8, 2023 | Jun 2, 2023 | Jun 16, 2023 |
| Mar 9, 2023 | $0.70 | $0.70 | 1.76% | Quarterly | $2.65 | Feb 6, 2023 | Mar 10, 2023 | Mar 24, 2023 |
| Dec 1, 2022 | $0.65 | $0.65 | 1.55% | Quarterly | $2.60 | Nov 8, 2022 | Dec 2, 2022 | Dec 16, 2022 |
| Sep 8, 2022 | $0.65 | $0.65 | 1.45% | Quarterly | $2.53 | Aug 22, 2022 | Sep 9, 2022 | Sep 23, 2022 |
| Jun 2, 2022 | $0.65 | $0.65 | 1.54% | Quarterly | $2.45 | May 9, 2022 | Jun 3, 2022 | Jun 17, 2022 |
| Mar 16, 2022 | $0.65 | $0.65 | 1.54% | Quarterly | $2.38 | Mar 1, 2022 | Mar 17, 2022 | Mar 31, 2022 |
| Dec 2, 2021 | $0.575 | $0.575 | 1.40% | Quarterly | $2.30 | Nov 16, 2021 | Dec 3, 2021 | Dec 17, 2021 |
| Sep 2, 2021 | $0.575 | $0.575 | 1.46% | Quarterly | $2.27 | Aug 16, 2021 | Sep 3, 2021 | Sep 17, 2021 |
| Jun 3, 2021 | $0.575 | $0.575 | 1.59% | Quarterly | $2.24 | May 11, 2021 | Jun 4, 2021 | Jun 18, 2021 |
| Mar 11, 2021 | $0.575 | $0.575 | 1.84% | Quarterly | $2.21 | Feb 23, 2021 | Mar 12, 2021 | Mar 26, 2021 |
| Dec 3, 2020 | $0.545 | $0.545 | 1.86% | Quarterly | $2.18 | Nov 17, 2020 | Dec 4, 2020 | Dec 18, 2020 |
| Sep 3, 2020 | $0.545 | $0.545 | 1.93% | Quarterly | $2.15 | Aug 18, 2020 | Sep 4, 2020 | Sep 18, 2020 |
| Jun 4, 2020 | $0.545 | $0.545 | 1.96% | Quarterly | $2.12 | May 12, 2020 | Jun 5, 2020 | Jun 19, 2020 |
| Mar 5, 2020 | $0.545 | $0.545 | 1.77% | Quarterly | $2.08 | Feb 18, 2020 | Mar 6, 2020 | Mar 20, 2020 |
| Dec 5, 2019 | $0.5125 | $0.5125 | 1.84% | Quarterly | $2.05 | Nov 19, 2019 | Dec 6, 2019 | Dec 20, 2019 |
| Sep 5, 2019 | $0.5125 | $0.5125 | 1.68% | Quarterly | $2.00 | Aug 19, 2019 | Sep 6, 2019 | Sep 20, 2019 |
| Jun 6, 2019 | $0.5125 | $0.5125 | 1.72% | Quarterly | $1.96 | May 14, 2019 | Jun 7, 2019 | Jun 21, 2019 |
| Mar 7, 2019 | $0.5125 | $0.5125 | 1.91% | Quarterly | $1.91 | Feb 19, 2019 | Mar 8, 2019 | Mar 22, 2019 |
| Nov 29, 2018 | $0.465 | $0.465 | 2.01% | Quarterly | $1.86 | Nov 12, 2018 | Nov 30, 2018 | Dec 14, 2018 |
| Sep 6, 2018 | $0.465 | $0.465 | 1.98% | Quarterly | $1.82 | Aug 20, 2018 | Sep 7, 2018 | Sep 21, 2018 |
| Jun 7, 2018 | $0.465 | $0.465 | 2.14% | Quarterly | $1.78 | May 18, 2018 | Jun 8, 2018 | Jun 22, 2018 |
| Mar 8, 2018 | $0.465 | $0.465 | 2.04% | Quarterly | $1.74 | Feb 21, 2018 | Mar 9, 2018 | Mar 23, 2018 |
| Nov 30, 2017 | $0.425 | $0.425 | 2.07% | Quarterly | $1.70 | Nov 6, 2017 | Dec 1, 2017 | Dec 15, 2017 |
| Sep 7, 2017 | $0.425 | $0.425 | 2.21% | Quarterly | $1.68 | Aug 24, 2017 | Sep 8, 2017 | Sep 22, 2017 |
| Jun 7, 2017 | $0.425 | $0.425 | 2.28% | Quarterly | — | May 12, 2017 | Jun 9, 2017 | Jun 23, 2017 |
| Mar 8, 2017 | $0.425 | $0.425 | 2.29% | Quarterly | — | Feb 28, 2017 | Mar 10, 2017 | Mar 24, 2017 |
| Nov 30, 2016 | $0.41 | $0.41 | 2.36% | Quarterly | — | Nov 11, 2016 | Dec 2, 2016 | Dec 16, 2016 |
| Sep 7, 2016 | $0.41 | $0.41 | 2.52% | Quarterly | — | Aug 26, 2016 | Sep 9, 2016 | Sep 23, 2016 |
Dividend yield is only the starting point. Pair the current distribution with payout ratio, free cash flow coverage, balance-sheet risk, and the history of actual payments before treating income as durable.
A higher yield is more useful when earnings and free cash flow cover the distribution. A yield caused by a falling stock price can be a warning, not a bargain.
Stable or rising payments can indicate capital return discipline. Flat, skipped, or missing payments should be read with earnings and cash flow before drawing conclusions.
A low payout ratio can leave room for growth; a high payout ratio can indicate limited cushion. Cyclical companies need more room than stable defensive businesses.
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WM Dividends FAQ
Does WM pay a dividend?
Waste Management, Inc. (WM) has covered dividend payment history on this page, including a latest dividend of $0.95 per share and a quarterly cadence based on available events.
What is WM's dividend yield?
WM's trailing dividend yield is 1.59%. Trailing dividend yield equals dividends paid over the trailing 12 months divided by the latest available share price.
When is WM's next dividend?
WM's next dividend has not been announced in the current AlgovestIQ snapshot. The latest completed dividend row remains available in the history table when covered data exists.
When is WM's ex-dividend date?
WM's latest covered ex-dividend date is Sep 11, 2026. Future ex-dividend dates are shown only when announced or explicitly projected.
How has WM's dividend changed?
WM's one-year dividend growth is 13.49% based on comparable covered dividend history.