Clean Harbors, Inc. Q4 2025 Earnings Call Summary

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Moby Intelligence

Wed, February 18, 2026 astatine 11:32 AM CST 3 min read

Achieved grounds yearly gross exceeding $6,000,000,000, driven by 15 consecutive quarters of year-over-year adjusted EBITDA borderline maturation successful Environmental Services.
Performance was underpinned by disciplined pricing that outpaced inflation, improved workforce productivity, and enhanced web ratio crossed disposal and recycling channels.
Environmental Services maturation of 6% was fueled by precocious request for method services, task volumes, and a important summation successful landfill volumes, which roseate much than 50% successful Q4.
Management attributed the resiliency of the concern exemplary to a divers scope of work offerings and manufacture verticals, which mitigated near-term concern marketplace headwinds.
The palmy first-year ramp-up of the Kimball incinerator and the instauration of the Phoenix hub provided captious infrastructure to enactment analyzable discarded processing.
Safety-Kleen Sustainability Solutions (SKSS) improved margins by 310 ground points contempt a weakening basal lipid marketplace by aggressively raising 'charge for oil' (CFO) rates by astir 50% implicit Q3 averages.
Reduced voluntary worker turnover by 150 ground points to a five-year low, which absorption identifies arsenic a cardinal operator for operational stableness and outgo savings.

Guidance for 2026 assumes a 5% summation successful adjusted EBITDA astatine the midpoint, grounded successful humble economical assumptions with imaginable upside from concern recovery.
The PFAS concern is projected to turn by 20% successful 2026, accordant with humanities trends, adjacent without the finalization of pending EPA regulatory frameworks.
Management expects to proceed driving incineration pricing improvements successful the mid-to-upper azygous digits to enactment up of inflationary pressures.
Strategic interior investments see a $50,000,000 vacuum motortruck fleet enlargement implicit 2026-2027 to internalize costs and seizure high-growth integrated h2o and sludge volumes.
The 2026 outlook for SKSS assumes basal lipid pricing volition diminution somewhat passim the year, with profitability maintained done dispersed absorption and accrued Group III production.

Announced the $130,000,000 acquisition of biology businesses from Depot Connect International (DCI) to grow method and tract work capabilities successful the Gulf Coast and Ohio.
Executed grounds stock repurchases of $250,000,000 successful 2025, with a recently expanded committee authorization providing $600,000,000 successful remaining capacity.
Net indebtedness to EBITDA reached 1.8 times, the lowest leverage successful astir 15 years, providing important flexibility for further M&A and interior maturation projects.
Identified imaginable headwinds successful Q1 2026 related to seasonal upwind impacts and the timing of inducement compensation and security outgo increases.