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How good a business is CLH?
Clean Harbors, Inc. earns 11% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
11%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 2.0 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 11%
Operating margin · Industrials median 10% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.18×
Cash conversion · 0.89× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- −1.8%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 8.0% |
| FY2021 | 9.1% |
| FY2022 | 12% |
| FY2023 | 11% |
| FY2024 | 11% |
| FY2025 | 11% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 32%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 11%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 6.5%
- Free cash flow margin
- 7.7%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $6.06B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $467M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $395M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 11%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Industrials
Ranks #224 of 332 by Smart Score