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Clean Harbors CLH Price / earnings

Price / earnings at other companies

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Waste ManagementWM
33.2×-1.6×
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Republic ServicesRSG
31.2×-5.1×
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Waste ConnectionsWCN
39.4×
APi Group logo
APi GroupAPG
54×+12.6×
Honeywell International logo
Honeywell InternationalHON
35×+10.9×
EMCOR Group logo
EMCOR GroupEME
24.6×+8.6×

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/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

Calculated from Clean Harbors’s reported figures.

Based on the most recent quarter.

The official record: Clean Harbors’s 10-Q, filed May 6, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Clean Harbors's price / earnings?
Clean Harbors (CLH) reported price / earnings of 38.4× in Q1 2026.
How has Clean Harbors's price / earnings changed year-over-year?
Clean Harbors's price / earnings increased by 41.3% year-over-year, from 27.1× to 38.4×.
What is the long-term trend for Clean Harbors's price / earnings?
Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Clean Harbors's price / earnings has grown at a 1.8% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 115.2× to 123.6×.
What does price / earnings mean?
How many dollars investors pay for each dollar of the company's annual profit.
How do you interpret price / earnings?
Lower can mean cheaper — or that the market expects earnings to fall. High multiples embed growth expectations. Meaningless when earnings are negative, so it is suppressed there.
How does price / earnings compare across companies?
Compare against the company's own history and sector peers, not across sectors with different growth and risk profiles.