Clean Harbors (NYSE:CLH – Get Free Report) is one of 39 publicly-traded companies in the “Waste Removal Svcs” industry, but how does it compare to its peers? We will compare Clean Harbors to similar companies based on the strength of its earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk and profitability.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
90.4% of Clean Harbors shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.0% of shares of all “Waste Removal Svcs” companies are held by institutional investors. 5.6% of Clean Harbors shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.6% of shares of all “Waste Removal Svcs” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Risk & Volatility
Clean Harbors has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Clean Harbors’ peers have a beta of 0.62, indicating that their average stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
Clean Harbors | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 2.78 |
Clean Harbors Competitors | 323 | 1117 | 1894 | 130 | 2.53 |
Clean Harbors currently has a consensus target price of $257.67, suggesting a potential upside of 12.73%. As a group, “Waste Removal Svcs” companies have a potential upside of 11.49%. Given Clean Harbors’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Clean Harbors is more favorable than its peers.
Profitability
This table compares Clean Harbors and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
Clean Harbors | 6.58% | 15.47% | 5.38% |
Clean Harbors Competitors | -97.71% | -458.29% | -3.74% |
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Clean Harbors and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
Gross Revenue | Net Income | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
Clean Harbors | $5.89 billion | $402.30 million | 31.66 |
Clean Harbors Competitors | $3.26 billion | $263.08 million | 30.84 |
Clean Harbors has higher revenue and earnings than its peers. Clean Harbors is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.
Summary
Clean Harbors beats its peers on 11 of the 13 factors compared.
About Clean Harbors
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. Clean Harbors, Inc. was incorporated in 1980 and is headquartered in Norwell, Massachusetts.
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