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We have never declared nor paid any cash dividends on our common stock, and we do not intend to pay any dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future.
−Removed: We intend to retain our future earnings, if any, for use in the operation and expansion of our business, payment of our outstanding debt and for our stock repurchase program.
+Added: We intend to retain our future earnings, if any, for use in the operation and expansion of our business, payment of our outstanding debt and our stock repurchase program.
In addition, our current revolving credit agreement and the indentures and loan agreement governing our other outstanding debt limit the amount we could pay as cash dividends on or for repurchase of our common stock.
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(2) The average price paid per share of common stock repurchased under our stock repurchase program includes commissions paid to the brokers.
−Removed: (3) Our Board of Directors has authorized the repurchase of up to $600.0 million of our common stock.
−Removed: We have funded and intend to fund the repurchases through available cash resources.
+Added: (3) On December 5, 2023, our Board of Directors authorized a $500.0 million expansion of the Company’s current share repurchase program.
+Added: As of December 31, 2023, the amount available for repurchase under the expanded plan is $554.1 million.
+Added: We have funded and intend to fund repurchases through available cash resources.
The stock repurchase program authorizes us to purchase our common stock on the open market or in privately negotiated transactions periodically in a manner that complies with applicable U.S.
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We maintain a repurchase plan in accordance with Rule 10b5-1 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
−Removed: During the three months ended December 31, 2022, no shares were repurchased under the Rule 10b5-1 plan.
+Added: During the three months ended December 31, 2023, 54,574 shares were repurchased under the Rule 10b5-1 plan.
Future repurchases may be made as open market or privately negotiated transactions as described above.
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AMONG CLEAN HARBORS, INC.,
−Removed: NYSE COMPOSITE INDEX, S&P MIDCAP 400 INDEX, REFUSE SYSTEMS AND CUSTOM PEER GROUPS
+Added: NYSE COMPOSITE INDEX, S&P MIDCAP 400 INDEX AND A CUSTOM PEER GROUP
Performance Graph
−Removed: The following graph compares the five-year return from investing $100 in each of our common stock, the NYSE Composite Index, the S&P Midcap 400 Index, and two custom peer groups.
−Removed: In 2022, we reassessed our peers to maintain a group that closely aligns with the breadth and size of our current operations.
−Removed: As a result of this assessment, we established the following group as Peer Group (New):
−Removed: ABM Industries Incorporated, Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc., Chemed Corporation, Darling Ingredients, Inc., Emcor Group, Inc., GFL Environmental, Inc., Harsco Corporation, Healthcare Services Group, Inc., Heritage-Crystal Clean, Inc., Huntsman Corporation, Iron Mountain Incorporated, KBR, Inc, Quanta Services, Inc., Republic Services, Inc., Rollins, Inc., Stericycle, Inc., Tetra Tech, Inc., Waste Connections, Inc., and Waste Management, Inc.
−Removed: We had previously established our Peer Group in 2018 which comprised of the following group, included in the graph below as Peer Group (Old):
−Removed: American Water Works Company, Inc., Casella Waste Systems, Inc., Civeo Corporation, Covanta Holding Corporation, Heritage-Crystal Clean, Inc., Iron Mountain Incorporated, Newpark Resources, Inc., Oil States International, Inc., Republic Services, Inc., Stericycle, Inc., Superior Energy Services, Inc.
−Removed: and Waste Management, Inc.
−Removed: US Ecology had previously been in Peer Group Old, however was acquired by Republic Services in 2022 so is no longer listed.
−Removed: In accordance with the rules of the SEC, the performance graph presents both peer group indices in the year of the change.
−Removed: In future Annual Reports of Form 10-K, we expect to report only on Peer Group (New), and not the Peer Group (Old), in the performance graph, which we believe best illustrates a relevant peer index to the Company's current operations.
+Added: The following graph compares the five-year return from investing $100 in each of our common stock, the NYSE Composite Index, the S&P Midcap 400 Index and a custom peer group.
+Added: We established a custom peer group that closely aligns with the breadth and size of our business.
+Added: This peer group is comprised of ABM Industries Incorporated, Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc., Chemed Corporation, Emcor Group, Inc., Enviri Corporation, GFL Environmental, Inc., Healthcare Services Group, Inc., Huntsman Corporation, Iron Mountain Incorporated, KBR, Inc, Quanta Services, Inc., Republic Services, Inc., Rollins, Inc., Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., Stericycle, Inc., Tetra Tech, Inc., Waste Connections, Inc., and Waste Management, Inc.
+Added: In 2022, we reassessed our peers to maintain a group that closely aligns with the breath and size of our current operations.
+Added: Further, Heritage-Crystal Clean, Inc.
+Added: had previously been in the Peer Group but is no longer listed since being acquired by a private company in 2023.
The values illustrated assume reinvestment of dividends on the ex-dividend date and compares relative performance since a particular starting date.
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Compared sentence by sentence after normalising whitespace, quotation marks, case and digits, so re-formatting and restated figures do not read as changed language. Wording changes appear as one removal and one addition. The current filing and the prior one are authoritative.