Basic Materials
Ecolab Inc.(ECL)
Live Price
Offline$269.12
+0.02% today
1Y Change
+2.78%
Window
Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 16, 2026
- Market Cap
- $72.77B
- Revenue Growth
- +2.2%
- EPS Growth
- -1.3%
- Dividend Yield
- 1.1%
Coverage: 245 bars ยท Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 16, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Ecolab Inc. (ECL) is a Basic Materials stock with a market cap of $72.77B and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $269.12 and up 2.8% across the available one-year price window (Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 16, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +2.2%, EPS growth of -1.3%, a dividend yield of 1.1%. What stands out right now is revenue +2.2%, EPS -1.3%, free cash flow +4.7% with operating margin 17.5% and ROIC 11.5%. The dividend is present but secondary, with a yield around 1.1%. Valuation already assumes a fairly strong business story at P/E 34.5 and price/sales 4.4. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines ECL price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Basic Materials peers on this page.
Sector Context
How this name stacks up against nearby peers on first-pass metrics.
Revenue Growth
Above sector median
+2.2% vs 0.0% peer median
Operating Margin
Above sector median
+17.5% vs +10.5% peer median
What Changed This Quarter
Latest report context and the signals most likely to have changed the story.
Latest report is on the board
2026 was reported on Apr 28, 2026, but the surprise data is still limited.
The operating picture looks softer than before
Revenue is at +2.2% and EPS is at -1.3%, with operating margin around 17.5%.
Shareholder return is still part of the story
The stock is still offering a dividend yield around 1.1%, which matters if the thesis depends on income as much as growth.
Earnings Reaction Memory
How the stock has tended to move after recent reports.
Across the last 3 reported quarters, the stock averaged -2.0% over the next 5 trading days and finished higher after 1 of those reports.
View quarter-by-quarter reaction table
| Quarter | EPS ฮ | 1D | 5D | 20D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2026 Apr 28, 2026 | โ | -3.9% | -3.5% | -1.6% |
2026 Feb 10, 2026 | +0.5% | +1.3% | +1.0% | -7.5% |
2025 Oct 28, 2025 | +0.0% | -4.0% | -3.6% | +1.9% |
Benchmark Edge
ECL vs SPY, QQQ, and Sector ETFs
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
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Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
ECL Max Drawdown
-20.31%
Trailing 1Y
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Calendar-Year Returns
Uses the longest available daily history for ECL and SPY.
Company Overview
Ecolab Inc.
New York Stock Exchange
Ecolab Inc. provides water, hygiene, and infection prevention solutions and services in the United States and internationally. The company operates through Global Industrial, Global Institutional & Specialty, and Global Healthcare & Life Sciences segments. The Global Industrial segment offers water treatment and process applications, and cleaning and sanitizing solutions to manufacturing, food and beverage processing, transportation, chemical, metals and mining, power generation, pulp and paper, commercial laundry, petroleum, refining, and petrochemical industries. The Global Institutional & Specialty segment provides specialized cleaning and sanitizing products to the foodservice, hospitality, lodging, government and education, and retail industries. Its Global Healthcare & Life Sciences segment offers specialized cleaning and sanitizing products to the healthcare, personal care, and pharmaceutical industries, such as infection prevention and surgical solutions, and end-to-end cleaning and contamination control solutions under the Ecolab, Microtek, and Anios brand names. The company's Other segment offers pest elimination services to detect, eliminate, and prevent pests, such as rodents and insects in restaurants, food and beverage processors, educational and healthcare facilities, hotels, quick service restaurant and grocery operations, and other institutional and commercial customers. This segment also provides colloidal silica for binding and polishing applications in semiconductor, catalyst, and aerospace component manufacturing, as well as chemical industries; and products and services that manage wash process through custom designed programs, premium products, dispensing equipment, water and energy management, and reduction, as well as real time data management. It sells its products through field sales and corporate account personnel, distributors, and dealers. The company was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
- Leadership
- Christophe Beck
- IPO Date
- Jan 1, 1957
- Employees
- 48.0k
- Street Address
- 1 Ecolab Place
- Mailing
- Saint Paul, MN, 55102-2233
- Region
- Saint Paul, MN, US
- Reporting Currency
- USD
- Investor Line
- 800 232 6522
- Last Updated
- Apr 28, 2026
Key Fundamentals
Valuation, growth, profitability, and balance sheet signals.
Valuation
- P/E
- 34.5
- EV/EBITDA
- 24.8
- Price/Sales
- 4.4
- Price/Book
- 7.3
Growth
- Revenue
- +2.2%
- EPS
- -1.3%
- Free Cash Flow
- +4.7%
Profitability
- Gross Margin
- 44.3%
- Operating Margin
- 17.5%
- Net Margin
- 12.8%
- ROE
- 21.7%
- ROIC
- 11.5%
Balance Sheet
- Debt/Equity
- 0.91
- Current Ratio
- 0.99
Earnings Reports
Latest News
Official Releases
Company announcements and filings-style updates.
Next Step
Keep the research moving
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