CLEAN HARBORS, INC
At today's price, CLEAN HARBORS, INC (CLH) is priced for +24.9% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
- The earnings trajectory is steadily up and to the right: Q1 2026 set record revenue at $1.46 billion, adjusted EBITDA rose 6% to $247.9 million with margin expanding 60 basis points to 17.0%, and management raised full-year EBITDA guidance to $1.24 to $1.30 billion. - The price at $288.55 sits above every valuation family, with the reverse-DCF reading an implied operating-income growth requirement near 23%. The market is paying a premium for the regulatory moat in hazardous-waste disposal. - T
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607 institutional managers reported holding CLH in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 93% of the company; the top 10 hold 46%. 105 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, Wellington Management, among others. On the short side, 1.2M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 2% of shares outstanding (2.3 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
CLH has cut its share count 3.1% over the past five years, spending $440.53M on repurchases. It pays no dividend. Cash returned over the past three years: $373.34M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at CLH over the trailing three years: 2025: 2 buys totaling $668k. 22 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
CLH's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-03 | +0.3% | -3.2% |
| 2023-11-02 | +0.9% | +6.8% |
| 2024-02-22 | -2.6% | +6.7% |
| 2024-05-02 | +8.5% | +9.1% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
CLH's latest 8-K filings: 2026-05-20 (items 5.07, 9.01); 2026-05-20 (items 5.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-05-14 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-05-06 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-02-18 (items 2.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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