Growth Metrics

Clean Harbors (CLH) Operating Margin (2016 - 2025)

Clean Harbors' Operating Margin history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 17.68% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Operating Margin rose 52.0% year-over-year to 17.68%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 16.81%, up 183.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 18.8%, 742.0% up from the prior year.
  • Operating Margin for Q4 2025 was 17.68% at Clean Harbors, down from 20.09% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Operating Margin topped out at 20.56% in Q2 2024 and bottomed at 7.45% in Q1 2022.
  • The 5-year median for Operating Margin is 15.45% (2022), against an average of 14.8%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Operating Margin skyrocketed 1029bps in 2021 before it plummeted -814bps in 2022.
  • A 5-year view of Operating Margin shows it stood at 15.03% in 2021, then tumbled by -34bps to 9.97% in 2022, then surged by 87bps to 18.61% in 2023, then decreased by -8bps to 17.16% in 2024, then increased by 3bps to 17.68% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for CLH's Operating Margin are 17.68% (Q4 2025), 20.09% (Q3 2025), and 13.57% (Q2 2025).