Waste Connections, Inc. (WCN) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Waste Connections, Inc. Q2 2025 earnings call. Participants will be in a listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. For questions, you may press star and then one and a touch-tone telephone. To withdraw your questions, you may press star and two. Please note, this event is being recorded. I'd now like to turn the floor over to Ron Middlestead, President and CEO. Sir, please go ahead. Okay. Thank you, Operator, and good morning. I would like to welcome everyone to this conference call to discuss our second quarter results and updated outlook for 2025, along with providing a framework for the back half of the year. I'm joined this morning by Marianne Whitney, our CFO, and several other members of our senior management. As noted in our release, we once again delivered results above the high end of our outlook for the quarter. In spite of incremental headwinds in Q2 from lower than expected contributions from higher margin commodity related activities and continued sluggishness in the economy, along with tariff induced uncertainties. As anticipated, we have already completed an outsized year of acquisition activity at approximately $200 million in annualized revenue, with a robust pipeline and almost half the year still ahead of us. The strength of our financial profile and free cash flow generation keeps us well positioned for additional acquisitions while maintaining the flexibility for increased return of capital to shareholders, including through opportunistic share repurchases, which are already underway. Moreover, in spite of incremental and growing headwinds, Our fu...