How to buy Clean Harbors stock (CLH)

Clean Harbors is a waste management business based in the US. Clean Harbors shares (CLH) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $230.94 – a decrease of 1.14% over the previous week. Clean Harbors employs 21,021 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $5.8 billion.

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Clean Harbors stock price (NYSE: CLH)

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Clean Harbors shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2024-12-18.

Latest market close	$230.94
52-week range	$161.39 - $267.11
50-day moving average more info button	$251.97
200-day moving average more info button	$227.67
Wall St. target price	$276.70
PE ratio more info button	30.5657
Dividend yield more info button	N/A
Earnings per share (TTM) more info button	$7.69

Is it a good time to buy Clean Harbors stock?

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Clean Harbors price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $230.94 from 2024-12-24

1 week (2024-12-19)	-1.14%
1 month (2024-11-26)	-11.16%
3 months (2024-09-26)	-5.07%
6 months (2024-06-26)	1.30%

1 year (2023-12-26)	29.38%
2 years (2022-12-23)	101.20%
3 years (2021-12-23)	141.67%
5 years (2019-12-26)	165.88%

Is Clean Harbors stock undervalued or overvalued?

Valuing Clean Harbors stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Clean Harbors's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Clean Harbors's P/E ratio

Clean Harbors's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 31x. In other words, Clean Harbors shares trade at around 31x recent earnings.

That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.

Clean Harbors's PEG ratio

Clean Harbors's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 188.43. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Clean Harbors's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Clean Harbors's EBITDA

Clean Harbors's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $1.1 billion.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Clean Harbors's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Clean Harbors financials

Revenue TTM	$5.8 billion
Operating margin TTM	12.57%
Gross profit TTM	$1.6 billion
Return on assets TTM	6.28%
Return on equity TTM	17.68%
Profit margin	7.19%
Book value	$46.91
Market Capitalization more info button	$12.7 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Clean Harbors share dividends

We're not expecting Clean Harbors to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Have Clean Harbors's shares ever split?

Clean Harbors's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 26 July 2011 . So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Clean Harbors shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Clean Harbors shares which in turn could have impacted Clean Harbors's share price.

Clean Harbors share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Clean Harbors's shares have ranged in value from as little as $161.39 up to $267.11. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Clean Harbors's is 1.205. This would suggest that Clean Harbors's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Clean Harbors overview

Clean Harbors, Inc. provides environmental and industrial services in the United States and internationally. The company operates through two segments, Environmental Services and Safety-Kleen Sustainability Solutions. The Environmental Services segment collects, transports, treats, and disposes hazardous and non-hazardous waste, such as resource recovery, physical treatment, fuel blending, 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 performs field services. The Safety-Kleen Sustainability Solutions segment provides pickup and transportation services 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, packages, distributes, and markets lubricants and other automotive products.

Frequently asked questions

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What percentage of Clean Harbors is owned by insiders or institutions?
Currently 5.911% of Clean Harbors shares are held by insiders and 92.541% by institutions. How many people work for Clean Harbors?
Latest data suggests 21,021 work at Clean Harbors. When does the fiscal year end for Clean Harbors?
Clean Harbors's fiscal year ends in December. Where is Clean Harbors based?
Clean Harbors's address is: 42 Longwater Drive, Norwell, MA, United States, 02061-9149 What is Clean Harbors's ISIN number?
Clean Harbors's international securities identification number is: US1844961078 What is Clean Harbors's CUSIP number?
Clean Harbors's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 184496107