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Clean Harbors Inc(CLH)

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ADVISORIES YOU CAN VERIFY
QUALITY SIGNAL RECENCY
3-STAR RATING
REGULAR BUY
BUY for 51 days
PROFIT SINCE LAST BUY
+4.6%
LAST CLOSE
$315.8
09/18/2026
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Upturn Advisory & Investor View for CLH

09/18/2026: CLH (3-star) is a REGULAR-BUY. BUY for 51 days. Simulated Profits (4.60%). Updated daily EoD!

How to Read the Upturn Advisory

The Upturn Star Rating and the current BUY, SELL, or PASS advisory are generated by Upturn’s AI advisory engine based on proprietary signal analysis, price behavior, advisory history, and historical signal performance.

Company fundamentals, valuation, risks, and news provide supporting context about the business.

Price Behavior

Strong Uptrend
PRICE PATH

Strong Uptrend

The stock has maintained a strong upward price trend across the last three quarters.

Smooth
PRICE STABILITY

Smooth

The stock has moved along a generally orderly path with only modest fluctuations.

Analysis of Past Performance

Type Stock
Historic Profit 48.15%
Avg. Invested days 80
Today’s Advisory Regular Buy
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Stock Returns Performance Upturn Returns Performance icon 3.0
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Upturn Scorecard

Upturn Star Rating

CLH receives a 4-star rating, supported by solid company fundamentals, solid quantitative characteristics, and solid analyst coverage. The rating is constrained by weak price momentum.

Company Fundamentals

CLH has solid overall fundamentals (4 stars), with moderate financial health, moderate growth momentum, and solid ownership. In FY2025 versus FY2024, solid cash generation (FCF margin 7.3%) is partially offset by slightly negative earnings growth (-2.8%), moderate revenue growth (+2.4%), soft profitability (net margin 6.5%).

Financial Health Rating

CLH's financial health is supported by solid cash strength, including free-cash-flow generation (7.3% of revenue). Profitability is moderate (3 stars), which helps explain the 3-star overall score.

Growth Momentum Score

Free-cash-flow growth is CLH's strongest growth driver at +26.8% FY2025 versus FY2024 (solid, 4 stars). By comparison, while earnings growth (-2.8%, slightly negative) holds the profile back, so recent growth is not broad-based across the business.

Ownership

Institutional ownership is 96.1% and approximately 94.8% of outstanding shares are publicly tradable, supporting liquidity and institutional participation. Insider ownership of 4.93% provides only moderate management-shareholder alignment.

Top 5 Institutional Investors

BlackRock Inc 9.10%
Wellington Management Company LLP 5.98%
HHG PLC 4.46%
Vanguard Capital Management, LLC 4.11%
FMR Inc 3.98%

Unit Economics (Per $1K Revenue)

CLH generates approximately $295 of gross profit, $112 of operating income, and $73 of free cash flow for every $1,000 of revenue. Based on FY2025 results. Strong cash conversion and healthy margins support the rating, although capital efficiency remains below the highest tier.

Economic Dimensions

Effective Tax Rate: 25.95%

Quantitative Style Profile

CLH has a high-quality, large-cap, liquid profile. Weak momentum is the primary drawback, while valuation that is moderately attractive rather than deeply discounted.

Style Classification

Quality Focused

Quality TiltLarge / Mega Cap StabilityHighly Liquid / Institution-Friendly

Key Highlights

Company Size Large-Cap Stock
Market Capitalization 16.67B USD
Price to earnings Ratio 38.33
1Y Target Price 359.93
Price to earnings Ratio 38.33
1Y Target Price 359.93
Volume (30-day avg) 410.5K shares
Beta 0.85
52 Weeks Range 201.34 - 335.94
Updated Date 09/18/2026
52 Weeks Range 201.34 - 335.94
Updated Date 09/18/2026
Dividends yield (FY) -
Basic EPS (TTM) 8.24

Analyzing Revenue: Products, Geography and Growth

Revenue by Products

Product revenue - Year on Year

Revenue by Geography

Geography revenue - Year on Year

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Valuation

Trailing PE 38.33
Forward PE 34.84
Enterprise Value 19.17B
Price to Sales(TTM) 2.67
Enterprise Value 19.17B
Price to Sales(TTM) 2.67
Enterprise Value to Revenue 3.07
Enterprise Value to EBITDA 15.73
Shares Outstanding 52.79M
Shares Floating 50.03M
Shares Outstanding 52.79M
Shares Floating 50.03M
Percent Insiders 4.93
Percent Institutions 96.14

Financial Metrics

🧭 Investment Snapshot

Total Revenue (Scale)

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Net Income (Profit)

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Free Cash Flow (Cash Strength)

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📈 Growth & Strength

Operating Income (Core Profit)

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EBITDA (Cash Earnings)

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Gross Profit (Unit Profitability)

Information icon Revenue minus cost of revenue, showing profit after direct production costs. It is needed to evaluate core business profitability before overhead expenses.

🛡️ Financial Safety

Cash (Liquidity Buffer)

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Total Debt (Leverage Risk)

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Net Working Capital (Short-Term Health)

Information icon Current assets minus current liabilities, indicating short-term liquidity strength. It is needed to assess whether the company can meet its short-term obligations.

🧱 Balance Sheet Strength

Stockholder Equity (Net Worth)

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Total Assets (Asset Base)

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Income Before Tax (Pre-Tax Earnings)

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⚙️ Cost & Drag Factors

Cost of Revenue (Production Cost)

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Total Operating Expenses (Operating Cost)

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Income Tax Expense (Tax Drag)

Information icon Amount of taxes paid or payable to the government. It is needed to evaluate the impact of taxation on overall profitability.

About Clean Harbors Inc

Exchange NYSE
Headquarters Norwell, MA, United States
IPO Launch date 1987-11-24
Co-CEO, Co-President & Director Mr. Eric W. Gerstenberg
Sector Industrials
Industry Waste Management
Full time employees 22155
Full time employees 22155

Clean Harbors, Inc. provides environmental and industrial services in the United States and Canada. The company operates through two segments: Environmental Services and Safety-Kleen Sustainability Solutions. The Environmental Services segment collects, transports, treats, recycles, and disposes hazardous and non-hazardous waste, such as resource recovery, physical treatment, incineration, landfill disposal, wastewater treatment, lab chemicals disposal, and explosives management services; and offers CleanPack services, including collection, identification, categorization, specialized packaging, transportation, and disposal of laboratory chemicals and household hazardous waste. This segment also provides industrial maintenance and specialty industrial services; and utilizes specialty equipment and resources that perform field services. The Safety-Kleen Sustainability Solutions segment provides containerized waste, parts-washer, and vacuum services for automobile repair shops, car and truck dealers, metal fabricators, machine manufacturers, fleet maintenance shops, and other automotive, industrial, and retail customers; collects and transports for hazardous and non-hazardous containerized waste for recycling or disposal; machine cleaning and maintenance, and disposal and replenishment of clean solvent or aqueous fluids; and vacuum services to remove solids, residual oily water, and sludge and other fluids from customers' oil/water separators, sumps, and collection tanks, as well as removes and collects waste fluids found at large and small industrial locations, including metal fabricators, auto maintenance providers, and general manufacturers. This segment also manufactures, formulates, and packages lubricants and other products. Clean Harbors, Inc. was incorporated in 1980 and is headquartered in Norwell, Massachusetts.