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CLH vs GFL

Side-by-side comparison of Clean Harbors Inc. (CLH) and GFL Environmental Inc. Subordinate voting shares no par value (GFL): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • CLH operates in Industrials, while GFL operates in Utilities - the two are in different parts of the market.
  • GFL is the larger of the two at $10.58B, about 2.1x CLH ($4.95B).
  • Over the past year, CLH is up 45.2% and GFL is down 16.7% - CLH leads by 61.8 points.
  • GFL has been more active in the news (6 items in the past 4 weeks vs 5 for CLH).
  • GFL has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 20 for CLH).
PerformanceCLH+45.17%GFL-16.68%
2025-04-28+0.00%2026-04-24
MetricCLHGFL
Company
Clean Harbors Inc.
GFL Environmental Inc. Subordinate voting shares no par value
Price
$308.77-0.48%
$40.41+0.10%
Market cap
$4.95B
$10.58B
1M return
+7.05%
+1.90%
1Y return
+45.17%
-16.68%
Industry
Environmental Services
Environmental Services
Exchange
NYSE
NYSE
IPO
2020
News (4w)
5
6
Recent ratings
20
25
CLH

Clean Harbors Inc.

Clean Harbors, Inc. provides environmental and industrial services in North America. The company operates through two segments, Environmental Services and Safety-Kleen. 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 CleanPack services, which comprise 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 segment offers specially designed parts washers; automotive and industrial cleaning products, such as antifreeze, windshield washer fluid, degreasers, glass and floor cleaners, hand cleaners, absorbents, mats, and spill kits; pickup and transportation services for hazardous and non-hazardous containerized waste for recycling or disposal; 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 remove and collect waste fluids found at metal fabricators, auto maintenance providers, and general manufacturers. This segment also manufactures, formulates, packages, distributes, and markets lubricants; and provides containerized waste, vac services, used motor oil collection, and contract blending and packaging services. Clean Harbors, Inc. was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Norwell, Massachusetts.

GFL

GFL Environmental Inc. Subordinate voting shares no par value

GFL Environmental Inc. operates as a diversified environmental services company in Canada and the United States. The company offers non-hazardous solid waste management, infrastructure and soil remediation, and liquid waste management services. Its solid waste management business line includes the collection, transportation, transfer, recycling, and disposal of non-hazardous solid waste for municipal, residential, and commercial and industrial customers. The company's infrastructure and soil remediation business line provides remediation of contaminated soils, as well as complementary services, including civil, demolition, and excavation and shoring services. Its liquid waste management business collects, manages, transports, processes, and disposes of a range of industrial and commercial liquid wastes, as well as resells liquid waste products. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Vaughan, Canada.

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