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Casella Waste Systems, Inc.

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What Do They Do?

Collects and disposes of solid waste and provides recycling and organics services to residential customers, businesses, and municipal and institutional organizations.

How Do They Make Money?

Collection customers buy waste pickup and disposal under service agreements or subscriptions, with invoices weekly, monthly, quarterly or in advance. Landfill and transfer customers pay per ton; processing earns fees and material-sale revenue, while National Accounts provides brokerage and resource-management services.

revenue
SegmentShareRevenue
Collection
Recurring

65%
FY2022: 50%
Landfill
Usage-based
5.3%
Transfer station
Usage-based
7.8%
Transportation
Usage-based
1.2%
Landfill gas-to-energy
0.4%
Processing
7.8%
FY2022: 11%
National Accounts
12%
FY2022: 17%

Who Are Their Customers?

Residential customers subscribe individually or are served through municipal, property-owner or other third-party contracts; commercial and industrial customers generally use service agreements. Resource Solutions serves municipalities, haulers, waste generators and large organizations.

Do Revenues Turn Into Profits?

Yes. It kept less than a cent of every revenue dollar as net income in FY2025 and turned 5 cents into free cash flow.

Operating income, FY2025
3% of revenue
▼ −12% vs FY2024 ($72.8M, 5%)
Net income, FY2025
0% of revenue
▼ −42% vs FY2024 ($13.5M, 1%)
Free cash flow, FY2025
5% of revenue
▲ +8% vs FY2024 ($78.1M, 5%)

How Are They Changing?

Since the FY2025 annual report
Latest quarter: Q2 FY2026, the three months to Jun 30, 2026
Revenue
▲ +17%
vs $465.3M in Q2 FY2025
Net income
▼ −28%
vs $5.2M in Q2 FY2025
  • Aug 6, 2026 Raised revenue guidance and lowered net income guidance Fiscal 2026 revenue guidance rose to $2.090 billion–$2.110 billion, while net income guidance fell to $0–$6 million.

Growing. Revenue grew 2.1x in 4 years, from $889.2M in FY2021 to $1.8B in FY2025, about 20% a year.

Revenue over time
Collection Landfill Transfer station Transportation Landfill gas-to-energy Processing National Accounts Processing Disposal Power generation
$2B$1B$0

Who Do They Compete With?

Competes with Waste Management, Republic Services, and Waste Connections

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