Republic Services, Inc. (RSG) earnings on August 6, 2026
More Republic Services, Inc. earnings
Prior outlook: Pessimistic Outcome: Missed
The company's quarterly results beat expectations and it raised its outlook for next year. The stock rose 2.16% on the day.
RSG price around the earnings
214.56
Change: +2.3%
2026-08-07, 20:00 UTC
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Prior thesis
Prior outlook: Pessimistic Outcome: Missed
- Thesis published
- Results released
Strong analyst support and perfect 100% beat history, but trajectory collapsed from +7.3 to -75.6 with negative trend strength into earnings.
Context analyzed before publication
- Trend
- Trajectory collapsed significantly into earnings, indicating an extreme selloff despite prior analyst support.
Analysts
Evidence
- Analyst consensus
- Buy
- Consensus average (1-5)
- 2
- Analysts covering the stock
- 24
- Average price target
- 245.38
- Lowest price target
- 208
- Highest price target
- 270
- Upside to price target
- 17.6%
- Quarterly earnings growth
- 6.1%
- Revenue growth
- 2.6%
- Forward EPS
- 8.07
- Trailing EPS
- 6.98
- Analyst moves in the last 60 days
- 1
- Strong buy: 3
- Buy: 12
- Hold: 12
- Sell: 0
- Strong sell: 0
- Strong buy
- 3
- Buy
- 12
- Hold
- 12
- Sell
- 0
- Strong sell
- 0
- July 10, 2026 · Citigroup: Maintains rating (Buy → Buy)
News and sentiment
Evidence
Sentiment
- Sentiment
- Constructive
- Mention volume
- High
- Normalized volume
- 99%
News
Sources (1)
- Citigroup Maintains Buy on Republic Services, Raises Price Target to $259 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
Technicals
Evidence
- Price when the context was analyzed
- 207.01
- Average true range (ATR)
- 2.1%
- Distance to 52-week high
- -11.0%
- 14-day change (14d)
- -4.3%
- 30-day change (30d)
- -3.6%
- 30-day relative strength
- -6.0%
- SPY change (30d)
- +2.5%
- Nearest support
- 206.92
- Distance to nearest support
- 0%
- Nearest resistance
- 208.63
- Distance to nearest resistance
- 0.8%
- Volume accumulation ratio (14d / 46d)
- 0.86
- Major: 206.92 (0% away, 0.02 ATR, 55 touches)
- Major: 205.25 (0.9% away, 0.41 ATR, 50 touches)
- Major: 202.86 (2% away, 0.97 ATR, 32 touches)
- Major: 208.63 (0.8% away, 0.38 ATR, 53 touches)
- Major: 209.63 (1.3% away, 0.61 ATR, 46 touches)
- Major: 210.82 (1.8% away, 0.88 ATR, 32 touches)
Trends
Evidence
- Average earnings surprise
- +4.8%
- May 7, 2026: actual EPS 1.7 vs estimate 1.64 (surprise +3.8%)
- February 17, 2026: actual EPS 1.76 vs estimate 1.63 (surprise +7.9%)
- October 30, 2025: actual EPS 1.9 vs estimate 1.78 (surprise +6.5%)
- July 29, 2025: actual EPS 1.77 vs estimate 1.76 (surprise +0.8%)
Expected move
- Implied move
- +1.5%
- Source
- Options chain
Reactions over its last 20 earnings
- Median move
- 2.7%
- 75th percentile move
- 3.7%
- 90th percentile move
- 5%
- Up / down moves
- 11 / 9
- Average up move
- +2.2%
- Average down move
- -2.9%
Monitoring and close
What Republic Services, Inc. reported
- Status
- Finished
| Actual EPS | 1.85 |
|---|---|
| EPS estimate | 1.81 |
| EPS surprise | +2.2% |
| Revenue | $4,430 million |
| Revenue estimate | $4,362 million |
| Revenue surprise | +1.6% |
Republic Services beat expectations in Q2 with adjusted earnings of $1.85 per share and sales of $4.43 billion. The company raised its 2026 guidance, reflecting optimism.
Sources (6)
- Republic Services’s (NYSE:RSG) Q2 CY2026 Sales Top Estimates (opens in a new tab) — StockStory
- Republic Services beat expectations with adjusted earnings of $1.85 per share and sales of $4.43 billion, above estimates. — Benzinga
- Republic Servs Q2 Adj. EPS $1.85 Beats $1.81 Estimate, Sales $4.430B Beat $4.362B Estimate (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Republic Services Raises FY2026 GAAP EPS Guidance from $7.14-$7.22 to $7.18-$7.23 vs $7.25 Est (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Republic Services Raises FY2026 Adj EPS Guidance from $7.20-$7.28 to $7.23-$7.28 vs $7.28 Est; Raises FY2026 Sales Guidance from $17.050B-$17.150B to $17.200B-$17.300B vs $17.198B Est (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Republic Services, Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2026 Results (opens in a new tab) — Yahoo
Pre-market second reading after the results
- Verdict
- Beat expectations
Heading into the open, results beat expectations on both earnings and revenue, and the price is indicating -0.0% pre-market, a move below the stock's usual reaction (about 3%). The figures don't confirm the prior scenario: that move is too small to draw conclusions from.
How the stock reacted
- Outcome
- Missed
- Consolidated
- +2.2%
- Max favorable move (MFE)
- 0%
- Max adverse move (MAE)
- 3%