Clean Harbors (CLH)

Industrials · Waste Management
$316.08 -0.62% on the day Market cap $16.7B 52-week range $201.34 to $335.94 Prices as of Oct 7, 2026

What the price implies

A reverse DCF: instead of guessing a fair value, it asks what growth today's price already assumes. How it works.

Free cash flow growth the price needs
13% a year for 10 years

At a market value of $16.7B, Clean Harbors's free cash flow of $442M (fiscal 2025) would need to grow about 13% a year for the stock to be worth today's price. That is slower than the company has grown its free cash flow over the last 9 years.

Assumes a 9% discount rate and 3% growth after year 10, on free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capital spending) from Clean Harbors's SEC filings. Change any assumption, or model revenue and margins instead, in the Modeling tab, or try your own numbers in the reverse DCF calculator.

Implied by the price13.4% a year
Free cash flow, last 9 years30.5% a year
Revenue, same period9.1% a year
Price to free cash flow37.9x

Fundamental grade

D

Five factors scored 1 to 9 from CLH's latest numbers, weighted into one grade. It describes the business, not whether the stock is a buy.

Valuation4
Profitability5
Growth4
Financial health5
Cash efficiency4

Key numbers

P/E (trailing)42.9x
P/E (forward)35.6x
Price / free cash flow37.9x
EV / EBITDA18.7x
Price / sales2.76x
Price / book5.78x
Revenue growth+1.9%
Operating margin11.2%
Net margin6.5%
Return on equity14.2%
Dividend yield—
Debt / equity1.72x

Results from SEC filings

Fiscal years, from Clean Harbors's 10-K filings. The deep dive has 15+ years, quarters and every line.

Fiscal year20212022202320242025
Revenue$3.8B$5.2B$5.4B$5.9B$6.0B
Net income$203M$412M$378M$402M$391M
Free cash flow$304M$281M$312M$346M$442M
EPS (diluted)$3.71$7.56$6.95$7.42$7.28
Operating margin9.1%12.3%11.3%11.4%11.2%

Where the revenue comes from

Revenue by segments, fiscal 2025.

Environmental Services$5.1B85%
Safety-Kleen Sustainability Solutions$884M15%

Superinvestors who own CLH

From each investor's latest 13F filing (what a 13F shows). 4 of the investors we track hold it.

InvestorLast quarterValue% of portfolioQuarter
Hersh Cohen
ClearBridge Investments
Trimmed $337M0.28%Q2 2026
Cliff Asness
AQR Capital Management
Added $143M0.05%Q2 2026
Joel Greenblatt
Gotham Asset Management
Trimmed $35M0.08%Q2 2026
Jean-Marie Eveillard
First Eagle Investment Management
Added $1M0.00%Q2 2026

Insider buying

Open-market purchases by Clean Harbors's executives and directors in the last 12 months, from SEC Form 4 filings. What insider buying tells you.

DateInsiderSharesPriceValue
Feb 23, 2026 April Mcclain Delaney
0$280.46—
Feb 23, 2026 April Mcclain Delaney
0$280.46—
Dec 3, 2025 April Mcclain Delaney
0$236.97—
Dec 3, 2025 April Mcclain Delaney
0$236.97—

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In the full deep dive

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Yearly return (IRR) at today's price
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15+ years of statements and quarters

Questions

What growth does Clean Harbors's stock price imply?

At a market value of $16.7B, Clean Harbors would need its free cash flow to grow about 13% a year for 10 years (discounted at 9%, 3% growth after that) to be worth today's price. Over the last 9 years its free cash flow grew 31% a year.

Are Clean Harbors insiders buying the stock?

4 open-market insider purchases of CLH in the last 12 months, from SEC Form 4 filings.

Which superinvestors own Clean Harbors?

4 of the superinvestors Investingly tracks hold CLH in their latest 13F, including Hersh Cohen, Cliff Asness, Joel Greenblatt.

Prices and ratios as of Oct 7, 2026; statements from SEC filings. Information only, not investment advice. Superinvestor holdings come from 13F filings, which are filed up to 45 days after each quarter ends.