Clean Harbors, Inc. is a provider of sustainable environmental and industrial services throughout North America. Co. provides parts cleaning and related environmental services to general manufacturing, automotive and commercial customers in North America and re-refiner and recycler of used oil in North America. Co.'s Environmental Services segment collects, transports, treats and disposes hazardous and non-hazardous waste, including resource recovery, physical treatment, fuel blending, incineration, landfill disposal, wastewater treatment, lab chemical disposal, explosives management and CleanPack services. It also offers emergency response services. We show 65 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our CLH shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute CLH market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing CLH market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing CLH's market cap history versus its peers.
Many "beginner" or "novice" investors will look at one stock trading at a price of $10 per share and another trading at
a price of $20 per share and think the latter company is worth twice as much. Of course, that is a completely meaningless comparison without also knowing how many shares outstanding there are for each of the two companies,
and then calculating their respective market caps. Comparing the share price of CLH versus a peer is one thing; comparing
CLH market cap versus a peer is a completely different story.
Furthermore, via fluctuation both in per-share price and in the number of shares outstanding (via issuance of new shares over time, the repurchase of existing shares),
the market cap for a company like CLH can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching CLH by allowing them to research the CLH market cap history. |
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