CLH Strangle Strategy
CLH (Clean Harbors, Inc.), in the Industrials sector, (Waste Management industry), listed on NYSE.
Clean Harbors, Inc. provides environmental and industrial services in North America. The company operates through two segments, Environmental Services and Safety-Kleen Sustainability Solutions. 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, including 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 Sustainability Solutions 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, vacuum services, used motor oil collection, and contract blending and packaging services.
CLH (Clean Harbors, Inc.) trades in the Industrials sector, specifically Waste Management, with a market capitalization of approximately $16.01B, a trailing P/E of 40.46, a beta of 0.92 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 201.34-316.98, average daily share volume of 569K, a public-listing history dating back to 1987, approximately 23K full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how CLH stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 0.92 places CLH roughly in line with broader market moves, so the strategy payoff and realized volatility track the index-equivalent baseline. The trailing P/E of 40.46 is on the rich side, which tends to correlate with higher earnings-window IV expansion as the market debates whether forward growth supports the multiple.
What is a strangle on CLH?
A long strangle buys an OTM call and an OTM put at offset strikes, cheaper than a straddle but requiring a larger underlying move to profit since both wings start out-of-the-money.
Current CLH snapshot
As of May 15, 2026, spot at $301.95, ATM IV 27.20%, IV rank 27.73%, expected move 7.80%. The strangle on CLH below is built from the same end-of-day chain, with strikes snapped to listed contracts and premiums pulled from the bid/ask midpoint at a 34-day expiry.
Why this strangle structure on CLH specifically: CLH IV at 27.20% is on the cheap side of its 1-year range, which favors premium-buying structures like a CLH strangle, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 7.80% (roughly $23.55 on the underlying). The 34-day window matched to the front-month expiry keeps theta exposure bounded while still capturing the post-snapshot move; longer-dated CLH expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on CLH should anchor to the underlying notional of $301.95 per share and to the trader's directional view on CLH stock.
CLH strangle setup
The CLH strangle below is built from the end-of-day chain, with each option leg priced at the bid/ask midpoint of its listed strike. With CLH near $301.95, the first option leg uses a $320.00 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed CLH chain at a 34-day expiry; the cross-strike IV skew is reflected directly in the per-leg values rather than approximated. Quantity sizing assumes one contract per option leg (or 100 CLH shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy 1 | Call | $320.00 | $4.05 |
| Buy 1 | Put | $290.00 | $4.95 |
CLH strangle risk and reward
- Net Premium / Debit
- -$900.00
- Max Profit (per contract)
- Unbounded
- Max Loss (per contract)
- -$900.00
- Breakeven(s)
- $281.00, $329.00
- Risk / Reward Ratio
- Unbounded
Upside max profit is unbounded; downside max profit is bounded at the put strike minus the combined debit (reached at zero). Max loss equals the combined debit times 100 (reached anywhere between the two OTM strikes). Two breakevens at call-strike plus debit and put-strike minus debit.
CLH strangle payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the strangle on CLH. Each row is one sampled price point from the computed payoff curve; the full curve uses 200 price points internally before being summarized into 10 rows here.
| Underlying Price | % From Spot | P&L at Expiration |
|---|---|---|
| $0.01 | -100.0% | +$28,099.00 |
| $66.77 | -77.9% | +$21,422.83 |
| $133.53 | -55.8% | +$14,746.66 |
| $200.30 | -33.7% | +$8,070.49 |
| $267.06 | -11.6% | +$1,394.32 |
| $333.82 | +10.6% | +$481.85 |
| $400.58 | +32.7% | +$7,158.03 |
| $467.34 | +54.8% | +$13,834.20 |
| $534.10 | +76.9% | +$20,510.37 |
| $600.87 | +99.0% | +$27,186.54 |
When traders use strangle on CLH
Strangles on CLH are the cheaper cousin of the straddle - traders use them when they want a large directional move but are willing to give up the inner-strike sensitivity in exchange for a lower up-front debit on the CLH chain.
CLH thesis for this strangle
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for CLH extends from approximately $278.40 on the downside to $325.50 on the upside. A CLH long strangle is the OTM cousin of the straddle: lower up-front cost but the underlying has to travel further past either OTM strike before the position turns profitable at expiration. Current CLH IV rank near 27.73% sits in the lower third of its 1-year distribution, where IV often re-expands toward the mean; this favors premium-buying structures and disadvantages premium-selling structures on CLH at 27.20%. As a Industrials name, CLH options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to CLH-specific events.
CLH strangle positions are structurally neutral / high-volatility (long premium, OTM); the modeled P&L assumes European-style exercise at expiration and ignores early assignment, transaction costs, dividends paid before expiry on the stock leg (when present), and the bid-ask spread on the listed chain. CLH positions also carry Industrials sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move CLH alongside the broader basket even when CLH-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Always rebuild the position from current CLH chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a strangle on CLH?
- A strangle on CLH is the strangle strategy applied to CLH (stock). The strategy is structurally neutral / high-volatility (long premium, OTM): A long strangle buys an OTM call and an OTM put at offset strikes, cheaper than a straddle but requiring a larger underlying move to profit since both wings start out-of-the-money. With CLH stock trading near $301.95, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed CLH chain strike and the premiums come straight from the end-of-day bid/ask midpoint.
- How are CLH strangle max profit and max loss calculated?
- Upside max profit is unbounded; downside max profit is bounded at the put strike minus the combined debit (reached at zero). Max loss equals the combined debit times 100 (reached anywhere between the two OTM strikes). Two breakevens at call-strike plus debit and put-strike minus debit. For the CLH strangle priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 27.20%), the computed maximum profit is unbounded per contract and the computed maximum loss is -$900.00 per contract. Live intraday quotes will differ as the chain moves through the trading session.
- What is the breakeven for a CLH strangle?
- The breakeven for the CLH strangle priced on this page is roughly $281.00 and $329.00 at expiration, derived from end-of-day chain premiums. Breakeven is the underlying price at which the strategy's P&L crosses zero ignoring transaction costs and assignment risk. The current CLH market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 7.80%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
- When should you consider a strangle on CLH?
- Strangles on CLH are the cheaper cousin of the straddle - traders use them when they want a large directional move but are willing to give up the inner-strike sensitivity in exchange for a lower up-front debit on the CLH chain.
- How does current CLH implied volatility affect this strangle?
- CLH ATM IV is at 27.20% with IV rank near 27.73%, which is on the low end of its 1-year range. Premium-buying structures (long call, long put, debit spreads) are relatively cheap in this regime; premium-selling structures collect less credit per unit risk.