Clean Harbors (CLH) Operating Margin (2009 - 2026)

Clean Harbors has disclosed Operating Margin across 18 years of filings, most recently posting 8.15% for Q1 2026.

• Operating Margin for Q1 2026 came in at 8.15%, up 35.0% year-over-year; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 was 11.24% (up 19.0% YoY), and the FY2025 annual result was 11.17%, down 21.0% from the prior year.
• Operating Margin came in at 8.15% for Q1 2026 at Clean Harbors, down from 10.57% in the prior quarter.
• In the past five years, Operating Margin ranged from a high of 15.57% in Q2 2022 to a low of 7.45% in Q1 2022.
• The 5-year median for Operating Margin is 11.01% (2023), against an average of 11.24%.
• Across the five-year window, Operating Margin soared 432 bps in 2022 and sank 404 bps in 2023, its largest moves.
• Clean Harbors' Operating Margin stood at 9.97% in 2022, then grew by 10 bps to 11.01% in 2023, then retreated by 13 bps to 9.57% in 2024, then rose by 10 bps to 10.57% in 2025, then slipped by 23 bps to 8.15% in 2026.
• The last three Operating Margin figures came in at 8.15% (Q1 2026), 10.57% (Q4 2025), and 12.46% (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.