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Clean Harbors CLH Return on assets

Return on assets at other companies

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6.2%-0.7pp
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Republic ServicesRSG
6.4%-0.1pp
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Waste ConnectionsWCN
5.1%
APi Group logo
APi GroupAPG
3.8%+0.7pp
Honeywell International logo
Honeywell InternationalHON
5.5%-2.6pp
EMCOR Group logo
EMCOR GroupEME
15.2%+1.0pp

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

Calculated from Clean Harbors’s reported figures.

Based on trailing twelve months.

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 return on assets?
Clean Harbors (CLH) reported return on assets of 5.3% in Q1 2026.
How has Clean Harbors's return on assets changed year-over-year?
Clean Harbors's return on assets decreased by 3.1% year-over-year, from 5.5% to 5.3%.
What is the long-term trend for Clean Harbors's return on assets?
Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Clean Harbors's return on assets has grown at a 6.3% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 16.6% to 21.2%.
What does return on assets mean?
How much profit the company squeezes out of everything it owns.
How do you interpret return on assets?
Higher means more productive assets. Unlike ROE, it is unaffected by leverage, so a wide ROE-minus-ROA gap flags a heavily levered balance sheet.
How does return on assets compare across companies?
Best compared within an industry — asset intensity varies enormously across sectors. Not meaningful for banks, whose assets are largely financial.