Casella Waste Systems, Inc. (CWST)

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Casella Waste Systems, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Casella Waste Systems, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $565 million in fiscal 2016 to $1.8 billion in fiscal 2025, up 14% a year; it rose in 9 of 9 years; it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 8 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Casella Waste Systems, Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 7.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 0% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 27 sales (12 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-10 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Casella Waste Systems, Inc. earned about 1 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 19 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 53 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 6.5% over the year (the filed statements).

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Casella Waste Systems, Inc.'s standing among 10 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.8 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 39% by size; a net margin of 0.4% ranks in the top 45%; revenue growth of 19.2% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 25% (its annual reports).

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Casella Waste Systems, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Coletta, Edmond (PRESIDENT & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2026-03-16, 8 months (bottom 8% of its family); the 16 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6.6 years (top 8%); 5 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 16 people in charge now (top 44%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Casella Waste Systems, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $124 million against debt of $1.1 billion leaves -30.4% of its assets as net cash, top 45% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 4.6% of revenue (top 45%); a gross margin of 33.8% (top 50%) (its annual report).

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Casella Waste Systems, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 19.2% a year over the last three filed years against 14% over all 10, speeding up (top 6% of its family); the newest year grew 18% (top 6%); capital spending grew 23.2% a year (top 19%) (its annual reports). Casella Waste Systems, Inc. reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Solid Waste Operations at $1.5 billion (80%), Resource Solutions Region at $360 million (20%); 2 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Casella Waste Systems, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.8 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 1.5% below the $1.9 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 31% of its family); net income of $8 million against a prior three-year average of $31 million (bottom 19%); a net margin of 0.4% against 2.6% before (bottom 31%) (its annual reports).