How do you interpret reportable legal entities — payments to acquire intangible assets?

Higher payments indicate investment in long-term competitive advantages or technology, while lower payments may suggest a focus on physical asset maintenance.

Clean Harbors CLH Reportable Legal Entities — Payments To Acquire Intangible Assets

Discontinued — last reported Q1 '18

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$11.87M-42.5%

ACGLReportable Legal Entities — Payments To Acquire Productive Assets

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IRMReportable Legal Entities — Payments To Acquire Businesses And Interest In Affiliates

$0-100%

TPX

TPXReportable Legal Entities — CapEx

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Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$1.5B+1.9%

Gross profit$445.4M+8.6%

Operating income$118.9M+6.6%

Net income$63.2M+7.7%

EPS (diluted)$1.19+9.2%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$548.0M+12.0%

Total debt$3.0B+0.2%

Total equity$2.8B+7.9%

Total assets$7.6B+4.2%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$6.3M+292%

CapEx$98.4M-17.1%

Free cash flow-$92.1M+21.3%

Valuation

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Market cap$15.25B+42.9%

Enterprise value$17.75B+34.2%

P/E38.6×+11.3×

P/S2.5×+0.7×

Profitability

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Gross margin31.7%+1.0pp

Operating margin11.2%+0.2pp

Net margin6.5%-0.1pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity14.8%-1.2pp

Debt / equity1.1×-0.1×

Current ratio2.3×0.0×

Where this comes from

Reported directly by Clean Harbors in its filing.

Tagged under the XBRL concept us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquireIntangibleAssets.

The official record: Clean Harbors’s 10-Q, filed May 2, 2018, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

Questions, answered.

What does reportable legal entities — payments to acquire intangible assets mean?: Cash spent on acquiring non-physical assets like software or patents.
How do you interpret reportable legal entities — payments to acquire intangible assets?: Higher payments indicate investment in long-term competitive advantages or technology, while lower payments may suggest a focus on physical asset maintenance.
How does reportable legal entities — payments to acquire intangible assets compare across companies?: Comparable to 'Capital expenditures for intangible assets' reported by technology-enabled industrial firms.