Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE:WM)

Top grade of officers on the team can't do anything but up!

Our filth and rubbish is their bread and butter!

you heard of someone getting fined for not sorting out their trash in america?

A great company with a good dividend

Conservative pick in a sector none of us can live without.

Recycling service should continue to improve. Strong dividend. Recession proof.

This company has good cash flow. Is always in demand. Big into recycling and reselling the scrap. Has the money to buy lucrative smaller companies.

I look for more privatization of trash services. Also, with the economy bad, WM costs may continue to go down. And, I don't see trash pickup as recession proof expense for people. You either pay someone to pick it up, or you are going to the landfill and paying yourself.

Straight up -- Undercover boss.

The company seems to follow good practices from the ground level up. In my neighborhood, every house has a big WM recycling can out on each collection day now, whereas 4 years ago, we were the only ones on the block that filled our recycling can before we filled the garbage can. I think they are moving in a good (green) direction with their business model.Their HR practices seem rational, leading to good morale and thereby employee retention. All in all, I think it's probably a good company doing a dirty job for a healthy profit.

Upturn in foreclosures and downturns in building and waste has hurt company, but core businesses and continued understanding that other people's trash can be cash in another's pocket will push this stock forward.

We keep making trash and they profit by picking it up and recycling some of it. Makes sense to me.

It just a plain solid company. No pun intended.

PEG of 1.7 with 2.3B operating cash flow and 1B leveraged free cash flow on a market cap of 15B. PE is a little rich, but I like the 3.6% dividend yield. This stock has underperformed the S&P over the last year, and I think that's about to change.

Great cash rich business that will always be in demand with dominant market share.

Wonderful CEO!

We all need someone to haul our trash.

My favorite moneymaker. A company that invests in emerging fields and dominates waste management. As housing re-emerges in the long-run, WM will be there to pick up your crap.

I love waste management. Not just because they pick up my trash every week, and not just because they only charge me every other month ($40.00 a pop), but because they also charge every neighbor in my neighborhood the same $40.00 a month. And not just my neighbors, but everyone in my town, and in many towns around the country. I also don't just love them because they pay a nice dividend, with a relatively low payout ratio, but they just raised their dividend. I don't just love them because they are a stable, monster player in a field with very little chance of new players poping up over night (read huge moat), or because they are so big, they can force the next largest competitor to buy a large player for more than they are worth, just so they can hope to compete. i like these guys because they are a green energy play. That's right, a GREEN ENERGY play. First of all, they are a huge recycler. Not much money in that now, but when the economy comes back it will help the bottom line just that much more. Think about that, I pay them $40.00 a month to pick up my recycling, only for them to eventually sell that trash to someone else. Now the really big thing for me is the methane they are using to produce electricity. You see after a land fill is filled, they cover it up, and sometimes plant a park or something. But the trash decomposes and creates methane, which they must vent from the landfill and monitor. They have developed a way (don't ask me how) to turn the methane into electricity, instead of just pumping it into the air. I know, this isn't the cleanest energy source around, but I don't see us fighting any wars over methane, and it is coming out of the landfill anyway, so we might as well use it. And did i mention that they are selling the electricity they produce from the methane that is created when the trash that I paid them to pick up decomposes underneath the park the planted. How can you not love a company that gets people to pay them to pick up things that they then use to create other things that they sell to other people. Every time i see one of those trucks, it just makes me smile. Did I mention the dividend.