“Interest expense, net of interest income for the six months ended June 30, 2026 decreased $2.1 million from the comparable period in 2025 primarily due to lower interest rates on our SOFR-based debt partially offset by lower interest income.”10-Q · Jul 29, 2026 ↗
Clean Harbors, Inc.
CLH
Market read
Clean Harbors, Inc.'s current read is isolated; its market group is not confirming.
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 1 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 6 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- Revenue increased 1.9% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating cash flow covered only 0.10x net income.
- Track dollar impact reported from higher pricing on sale of base oil products.
- Watch reported change in interest expense tied to SOFR-based debt and related attribution to lower/higher rates.
Invalidation: The isolated read changes if CLH's group or a disclosed connection begins moving with it.
Research brief
The story so far
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 1 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 6 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- Revenue increased 1.9% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating cash flow covered only 0.10x net income.
- Track dollar impact reported from higher pricing on sale of base oil products.
- Watch reported change in interest expense tied to SOFR-based debt and related attribution to lower/higher rates.
Company research
Understand the business, not just the ticker
Use the company’s filings to identify the few operating, demand, cost, capital and regulatory variables that determine its earnings power.
- Which operating variable is changing?
- Is that change durable, cyclical or one-off?
- What evidence would disprove the current interpretation?
- Operating cash flow covered net income at 2.22x in the latest annual period.
- Credit and interest rates has repeated favorable evidence across 5 filings.
- Demand and volume has repeated adverse evidence across 5 filings.
- P/E is 88% below the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
Price as of Sep 10, 2026
320.52Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“Partially offsetting the broad revenues growth across Environmental Services was a $22.3 million decrease in Industrial Services revenues, driven by lower demand for industrial maintenance and turnaround services as compared to 2025, with the impact concentra…”10-Q · Jul 29, 2026 ↗
“Revenues from used oil collection services increased $23.5 million, attributable to higher pricing for these waste oil collection services.”10-Q · Jul 29, 2026 ↗
“Additionally, severance costs, primarily due to acquisitions completed during the period, were $1.9 million.”10-Q · Jul 29, 2026 ↗
Valuation discipline
Descriptive valuation snapshot
Price/sales 2.9× · EV/sales 3.3×. Comparisons use only industry-matched filing peers.
Mechanical 2.0-year scenarios are available as editable assumptions, not consensus.
Price action
How the market is pricing the story
Jodie does not have enough daily observations to draw a useful short-term chart for this asset. The latest quoted price was checked 11 Sept, 15:10 GMT-4; this is a coverage limitation, not a flat-price conclusion.
Developments
No sourced recent-development timeline yet
Jodie has not returned a relevant primary source or news item for CLH. This is an evidence-coverage gap, not a conclusion that nothing material happened.
Business and financial condition
Reported financial figures are not available yet
Jodie has not returned structured SEC XBRL fundamentals for this asset. This is a coverage limitation, not an assessment of the business or its financial health.
Latest filing assessment · baseline
The latest filing shows material pressure
10-Q filed 2026-05-06 against the comparable filing from 2025-04-30.
What improved
- Revenue increased 1.9% versus the comparable filing period.
What weakened
- Operating cash flow covered only 0.10x net income.
Filing receipts
“Interest Expense, Net of Interest Income Three Months Ended March 31, 2026 over 2025 (in thousands, except percentages) 2026 2025 Change % Change Interest expense, net of interest income $ 33,854 $ 36,077 $ (2,223) (6.2) % Interest expense, net of interest income for the three months ended March 31, 2026 decreased $2.2 million from the comparable period in 2025 primarily due to lower interest rates on outstanding debt during the period resulting from the debt refinancing transactions executed in October 2025 and lower variable interest rates on our SOFR-based debt.”
“Adjusted free cash flow, which management uses to measure our financial strength and ability to generate cash, was an outflow of $75.8 million in the three months ended March 31, 2026, as compared to an outflow of $115.7 million in the comparable period of 2025, an improvement of $39.9 million, primarily driven by lower cash paid for additions to property, plant and equipment.”
“Net cash from operating activities for the three months ended March 31, 2026 increased $4.7 million from $1.6 million in 2025 to $6.3 million in 2026 primarily due to lower cash paid for interest partially offset by higher working capital impacts in 2026 as compared to the prior year period.”
Retrospective baseline calibration. It was generated after the filing date and is not part of Jodie's live track record.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind CLH
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depends on
KEFiling-linked namepartnerOct 29, 2025 ▾
“On a comparative basis and excluding the impacts of the new incinerator in Kimball, Nebraska which is not expected to be running at full utilization until 2026, utilization at our incinerators was 92% in the three months ended September 30, 2025 as compared t…”
MCKMcKesson CorporationcustomerOct 29, 2025 ▾
“These agreements indemnify the Company with respect to any liability at the 17 sites for waste disposed prior to the Company’s acquisition of the former subsidiaries of Waste Management, Inc.”
Depended on by
WCNWaste Connections, Inc.competitorFeb 12, 2026 ▾
“We also compete in certain markets with publicly held and privately owned companies such as Waste Management, Inc., Republic Services, Inc., Clean Harbors, Inc., Secure Waste Infrastructure Corp., Select Water Solutions, Inc., Ecoserv, LLC, Oilfield Water Log…”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
CLH is currently a Leader in the organic co-movement group Hazardous Waste Services. This group is discovered from market behaviour rather than assigned from an industry taxonomy. 3 filing-linked names are in the relationship map; none is currently confirmed as moving with the group.
This group is retained as the last observed read for CLH; it is not active in the latest market snapshot.
Context history
Theme membership history
No durable theme membership has been observed for this name yet.