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CLEAN HARBORS INC CLH
CLEAN HARBORS INC (CLH) earns a Piotroski F-score of 6/9 (mixed financial health), with an Altman Z″ in the safe zone. It does not currently pay a dividend. FY2025 revenue was $6.0B at a 6.5% net margin.
Quality score trend · recomputed for each fiscal year
Each year's score is computed from that year's filing — a rising Piotroski F or Altman Z″ means improving financial health, a fall is worth a look.
Analyst price target
Recent analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-31 | Wells Fargo | Equal-Weight (main) |
| 2026-07-30 | Citigroup | Buy (main) |
| 2026-07-30 | Stifel | Buy (main) |
| 2026-07-30 | TD Cowen | Buy (main) |
| 2026-07-30 | Truist Securities | Buy (main) |
| 2026-07-30 | Barclays | Equal-Weight (main) |
Wall Street analyst consensus — a sentiment gauge, not our scoring.
Forward estimates · earnings calendar →
Consensus analyst estimates and scheduled dates — forward-looking, may change.
Smart money · insiders, last 12 months
Open-market insider purchases minus sells (SEC Form 4) — real buying with their own money is a bullish “smart money” signal; grants and option exercises are excluded.
How it ranks in Transportation & Utilities · percentile among 348 companies
Percentile vs other Transportation & Utilities companies we cover — e.g. “stronger than 90%” means only 10% score higher on that measure.
Piotroski F breakdown · 6/9 tests passed
- Positive return on assets
- Positive operating cash flow
- Rising ROA
- Cash flow exceeds net income
- Lower long-term debt
- Rising current ratio
- No share dilution
- Rising gross margin
- Rising asset turnover
Altman Z″ components · safe zone
| Component | Value |
|---|---|
| Working capital / assets | 0.198 |
| Retained earnings / assets | 0.361 |
| EBIT / assets | 0.088 |
| Equity / liabilities | 0.563 |
Sector peers · similar-size Transportation & Utilities companies compare side by side →
| Ticker | Company | Piotroski F | Altman Z″ | P / E | Revenue growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLH | CLEAN HARBORS INC | 6/9 | 3.66 | 40.8 | +2.4% |
| PESI | PERMA FIX ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES INC | 5/9 | -2.58 | — | +4.3% |
| NPPXF | NIPPON TELEGRAPH & TELEPHONE CORP | 6/9 | 2.95 | — | -1.3% |
| VZ | VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC | 4/9 | 1.53 | 11.4 | +2.5% |
| T | AT&T INC. | 6/9 | 0.88 | 7.2 | +2.7% |
| CCZ | COMCAST CORP | 6/9 | 1.79 | 4.9 | +-0% |
| FDX | FEDEX CORP | 5/9 | 2.66 | 17.1 | +7.7% |
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About CLEAN HARBORS INC
Clean Harbors, Inc. provides environmental and industrial services in the United States and Canada. The company operates through two segments: Environmental Services and Safety-Kleen Sustainability Solutions. The Environmental Services segment collects, transports, treats, recycles, and disposes hazardous and non-hazardous waste, such as resource recovery, physical treatment, 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 perform field services. The Safety-Kleen Sustainability Solutions segment provides containerized waste, parts-washer, and vacuum services for automobile repair shops, car and truck dealers, metal fabricators, machine manufacturers, fleet maintenance shops, and other automotive, industrial, and retail customers; collects and transports 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, and packages lubricants and other products. Clean Harbors, Inc. was incorporated in 1980 and is headquartered in Norwell, Massachusetts.
FAQ
Is CLH financially healthy?
CLEAN HARBORS INC's Piotroski F-score is 6/9 (8–9 is excellent, 0–3 weak), and its Altman Z″ distress score is in the safe zone.
Does CLH pay a dividend?
No, CLEAN HARBORS INC does not currently pay a dividend.
How profitable is CLH?
In FY2025, CLEAN HARBORS INC had a net margin of 6.5% and a return on equity of 14.2%.
Is CLH overvalued or undervalued?
CLEAN HARBORS INC trades at about 43.5× trailing earnings — above its 10-year norm (10-year range 17.2×–58.3×, median 32.0×). Stocktoria reports the data, not buy/sell advice.
What is the analyst price target for CLH?
The average Wall-Street price target for CLEAN HARBORS INC is $359.60, about 13.6% above the recent price, from 15 analysts (consensus: buy).
Is CLH a good stock to buy?
Stocktoria doesn't give buy or sell advice, but here is the data on CLEAN HARBORS INC: a Piotroski F-score of 6/9, an Altman Z″ in the safe zone, a P/E of about 40.8×. Weigh these quality and valuation signals against your own goals.
Computed from company filings · US · as of 2025-12-31. Facts plus Stocktoria's own computed scores — not investment advice.