Republic Services Inc. (RSG)

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Republic Services 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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Republic Services Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $11 billion in fiscal 2016 to $19 billion in fiscal 2025, up 5.9% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 1% from fiscal 2017 to fiscal 2018; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Republic Services Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 0.5% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 31% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 4 sales and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-04, buying about $100 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Republic Services Inc. earned about 18 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 27 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 65 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.8% over the year (the filed statements).

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Republic Services Inc.'s standing among 10 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $19 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 17% by size; a net margin of 11.2% ranks in the top 25%; revenue growth of 6.7% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 35% (its annual reports).

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Republic Services Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Vander, Ark Jon (CEO and President, as filed), filing under that title since 2021-06-28, 5.4 years (top 25% of its family); the 24 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6 years (top 25%); 3 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 24 people in charge now (top 19%; 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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Republic Services Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $76 million against debt of $13 billion leaves -37.6% of its assets as net cash, bottom 45% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 12.7% of revenue (top 25%); a gross margin of 49.4% (top 6%) (its annual report).

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Republic Services Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 6.7% a year over the last three filed years against 5.9% over all 10, speeding up (top 28% of its family); the newest year grew 3.3% (bottom 39%); capital spending grew 9.1% a year (top 31%) (its annual reports). Republic Services Inc. reported 4 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Recycling and Solid Waste at $15 billion, Group1 at $7.5 billion, Group2 at $7.3 billion, and 1 more. 3 of 4 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 47% of revenue (its annual report).

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Republic Services Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $19 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 4.8% below the $20 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 31% of its family); net income of $2.1 billion against a prior three-year average of $1.8 billion (top 44%); a net margin of 11.2% against 10.2% before (top 31%) (its annual reports).