Waste Management Inc. Stock Outperforms Market On Strong Trading Day

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Prospect Capital Corporation is a financial services company that primarily lends to and invests in middle-market privately held companies. The Company's investment objective is to generate both current income and long-term capital appreciation through debt and equity investments. It invests primarily in senior and subordinated secured debt and equity of private companies in need of capital for acquisitions, divestitures, growth, development, recapitalizations and other purposes. It makes directly originated agented loans to companies, including companies which are controlled by private equity sponsors and companies that are not controlled by private equity sponsors. It also invests in senior and secured loans, syndicated loans and high yield bonds that have been sold to a club or syndicate of buyers, both in the primary and secondary markets. The Company is managed by its investment adviser, Prospect Capital Management L.P.

Waste Management Inc. Stock Outperforms Market On Strong Trading Day

5:31 pm ET December 29, 2021 (MarketWatch) Print

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Shares of Waste Management Inc. (WM) inched 0.75% higher to $166.38 Wednesday, on what proved to be an all-around positive trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index rising 0.14% to 4,793.06 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 0.25% to 36,488.63. This was the stock's fifth consecutive day of gains. Waste Management Inc. closed $1.66 short of its 52-week high ($168.04), which the company reached on November 29th.

The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Wednesday, as Republic Services Inc. (RSG) rose 0.72% to $139.41, Waste Connections Inc. (WCN.T) rose 0.95% to $136.15, and Veolia Environnement S.A. ADR fell 0.41% to $36.69. Trading volume (773,119) remained 890,550 below its 50-day average volume of 1.7 M.

Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet. Data compiled December 29, 2021.

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December 29, 2021 17:31 ET (22:31 GMT)