Republic Services key statistics and ratios

In fiscal 2025, Republic Services had return on equity of 18.3%, an operating margin of 17.4%, debt equal to 114.6% of equity and a current ratio of 0.64. Each ratio below is calculated from the figures on its income statement, balance sheet and cash flow pages.

Financial ratios

US$ thousands unless shown otherwise. Fiscal years, plus the last twelve months (LTM) when newer.

Republic Services: financial ratios, annual
Fiscal year	2009Dec 2009	2010Dec 2010	2011Dec 2011	2012Dec 2012	2013Dec 2013	2014Dec 2014	2015Dec 2015	2016Dec 2016	2017Dec 2017	2018Dec 2018	2019Dec 2019	2020Dec 2020	2021Dec 2021	2022Dec 2022	2023Dec 2023	2024Dec 2024	2025Dec 2025	LTMSept 2026
Gross margin	40.9%	41.2%	50.1%	48.6%	48.4%	46.9%	49.9%	49.2%	48.5%	48.3%	48.3%	49.3%	49.4%	47.6%	48.2%	49.2%	49.4%	49.3%
Operating margin	19.4%	19.0%	15.9%	13.6%	11.9%	11.6%	14.2%	13.5%	13.8%	14.6%	14.7%	14.2%	15.6%	15.3%	16.1%	17.4%	17.4%	17.5%
Net margin	6.0%	6.2%	6.0%	5.9%	5.8%	5.2%	6.8%	5.4%	10.6%	8.7%	8.8%	8.0%	9.7%	9.5%	10.0%	11.1%	11.2%	11.3%
Free-cash-flow margin	7.0%	7.9%	8.5%	6.3%	6.6%	6.3%	6.7%	8.1%	7.6%	9.8%	9.4%	10.6%	11.0%	11.1%	11.5%	11.3%	12.7%	13.0%
Return on equity	6.5%	6.6%	7.6%	7.4%	7.5%	7.0%	9.7%	7.9%	16.3%	13.1%	13.4%	11.7%	14.8%	15.9%	17.1%	18.6%	18.3%	18.4%
Return on assets	2.5%	2.6%	3.0%	2.9%	3.0%	2.7%	3.7%	3.0%	6.1%	4.8%	4.8%	4.2%	5.3%	5.5%	5.7%	6.4%	6.4%	6.4%
Asset turnover	0.42	0.42	0.50	0.50	0.51	0.53	0.54	0.55	0.58	0.56	0.55	0.52	0.55	0.58	0.57	0.58	0.57	0.56
Current ratio	0.50	0.47	0.67	0.73	0.83	0.76	0.67	0.71	0.55	0.58	0.52	0.67	0.71	0.70	0.56	0.58	0.64	0.75
Debt to equity	92.0%	89.8%	92.3%	92.8%	89.8%	92.0%	98.2%	100.7%	104.1%	106.5%	108.3%	106.7%	107.8%	122.9%	121.6%	112.6%	114.6%	114.8%
Interest cover (operating income ÷ interest)	2.7x	3.0x	3.5x	3.4x	3.4x	3.5x	4.3x	4.1x	4.6x	4.5x	4.6x	4.8x	6.6x	6.0x	5.5x	5.9x	5.8x	5.7x
Effective tax rate	42.6%	42.1%	35.0%	30.6%	30.8%	38.1%	37.3%	36.5%	0.2%	21.4%	17.1%	15.1%	18.0%	18.8%	21.0%	16.0%	17.5%	15.5%
SG&A as % of revenue	10.7%	10.6%	8.5%	8.4%	8.4%	8.6%	8.9%	8.5%	8.8%	8.9%	9.0%	8.8%	9.0%	9.3%	9.3%	9.1%	9.0%	8.9%
Capital spending as % of revenue	10.1%	9.8%	9.6%	9.3%	8.7%	8.1%	8.6%	8.2%	8.2%	9.0%	9.9%	9.9%	9.9%	9.3%	9.4%	10.1%	9.9%	9.8%
Free cash flow ÷ net income	115.2%	126.2%	140.9%	106.7%	113.3%	121.9%	97.9%	150.2%	72.0%	112.9%	106.7%	132.0%	113.9%	116.7%	114.8%	101.9%	112.6%	114.9%
Dividends ÷ net income	58.2%	58.2%	52.5%	57.6%	59.2%	69.1%	53.2%	68.4%	34.5%	44.5%	45.8%	54.0%	42.8%	39.9%	36.9%	33.6%	34.5%	34.6%
Dividends and buybacks ÷ free cash flow	50.7%	52.8%	92.8%	107.3%	84.3%	116.8%	109.5%	89.4%	114.1%	102.4%	77.8%	48.7%	54.7%	45.9%	45.3%	56.2%	66.7%	74.1%

US$ thousands unless shown otherwise. Fiscal quarters.

Republic Services: financial ratios, quarterly
Quarter	2024 Q4Dec 2024	2025 Q1Mar 2025	2025 Q2Jun 2025	2025 Q3Sept 2025	2025 Q4Dec 2025	2026 Q1Mar 2026	2026 Q2Jun 2026	2026 Q3Sept 2026
Gross margin	50.0%	49.6%	49.8%	49.0%	49.1%	49.6%	49.5%	48.8%
Operating margin	17.3%	17.5%	17.6%	17.3%	16.9%	17.7%	17.8%	17.7%
Net margin	11.1%	10.8%	11.3%	11.4%	11.5%	11.2%	11.2%	11.4%
Free-cash-flow margin	11.3%	12.3%	14.4%	15.3%	8.5%	16.0%	15.0%	12.4%
Current ratio	0.58	0.66	0.66	0.58	0.64	0.67	0.64	0.75
Debt to equity	112.6%	110.3%	104.1%	104.1%	114.6%	111.2%	112.4%	114.5%
SG&A as % of revenue	9.6%	9.3%	8.7%	8.7%	9.2%	9.0%	8.7%	8.6%

Returns use average equity or assets over the year. Return on equity is left blank when equity is negative or so small that the ratio says nothing (above ±200%); interest cover is left blank above 200 times. Price-based ratios such as P/E are on the valuation page.

Financial health

2 of 6 checks passed · September 30, 2026

What it owns · $35.5bn

Short-term assets $2.7bnLonger-term assets $32.8bn

What it owes, and who funded it · $15.8bn

Short-term liabilities $3.6bnShareholders' equity $12.2bn

Short-term assets cover short-term liabilities $2.7bn of assets due within a year against $3.6bn of liabilities due within a year.
Short-term assets cover long-term liabilities Not assessable from the reported split. Not assessable.
More cash than debt $92m of cash against $14.0bn of debt.
Debt below 40% of shareholders' equity Debt is 114% of equity.
Debt burden no higher than five years ago Debt to equity moved from 107% to 114% over five years.
A year's operating cash flow covers at least 20% of debt $4.5bn of operating cash flow against $14.0bn of debt.
Operating profit covers interest at least five times over Operating income of $3.5bn against $605m of interest.

From Republic Services's latest balance sheet as filed. Checks are fixed, documented rules (methodology), counted only where the company reports the figures — a dot means the filing doesn't break the item out. Descriptions of reported data, not advice.

Moat

84 /100

Strong moat

How hard Republic Services's competitive advantage looks for rivals to wear away, judged from 10 years of its own filings: returns on capital, pricing power, profit durability, cash conversion and discipline.

Returns on capital 20 / 20

Cash operating profit has been a median 20.0% of total assets over 10 years.
Pricing power 16 / 20

Gross margin has been a median 47.8%, moving by 1.2 percentage points (standard deviation) across 10 years.
Durability 14 / 20

Operating margin has been a median 15.6%; its worst year was 14.5%.
Cash conversion 16 / 20

Free cash flow was positive in 10 of 10 years, at a median 11.2% of revenue.
Discipline 18 / 20

The diluted share count fell 3.6% over five years; stock-based pay has been a median 0.3% of revenue.

AI disruption exposure: Low. In this industry, the business rests on physical assets, regulated networks or products AI itself depends on.

A rules-based reading of reported figures, not a forecast and not investment advice. How the score is built: methodology.

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Figures from Republic Services's SEC filings (10-K and 10-Q), retrieved October 30, 2026. How we read and check them: methodology and data sources. Not investment advice. Back to Republic Services.