Basic Materials
Live Price
Offline$280.75
+1.61% today
1Y Change
+2.78%
Window
Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 16, 2026
Coverage: 245 bars · Jun 25, 2025 → 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 $280.75 and up 2.8% across the available one-year price window (Jun 25, 2025 → 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.
Benchmark Edge
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
ECL
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
ECL Max Drawdown
-20.31%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for ECL and SPY.
Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$12.7B
-10.3% YoY
FY Net Income
$1.1B
+3.5% YoY
Free Cash Flow
$1.4B
+31.9% YoY
Revenue Growth
+2.2%
EPS Growth
-1.3%
Gross Margin
44.3%
Net Margin
12.8%
Income statement
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 16.1B | 15.7B | 15.3B | 14.2B | 12.7B |
| Gross Profit | 7.2B | 6.8B | 6.2B | 5.4B | 5.2B |
| Operating Income | 2.9B | 2.6B | 2.2B | 1.6B | 1.7B |
| EBITDA | 3.5B | 3.8B | 3.0B | 2.5B | 2.5B |
| Net Income | 2.1B | 2.1B | 1.4B | 1.1B | 1.1B |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 646M | 1.3B | 920M | 599M | 360M |
| Total Assets | 24.7B | 22.4B | 21.8B | 21.5B | 21.2B |
| Total Liabilities | 14.9B | 13.6B | 13.8B | 14.2B | 14.0B |
| Shareholder Equity | 9.8B | 8.8B | 8.0B | 7.2B | 7.2B |
| Total Debt | 9.4B | 8.3B | 8.7B | 9.0B | 9.2B |
| Net Debt | 8.8B | 7.0B | 7.8B | 8.4B | 8.8B |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
2.1B
+15.3% YoY
Capital Expenditures
643M
+9.8% YoY
Free Cash Flow
1.4B
+31.9% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
44.3%
Operating Margin
17.5%
Net Margin
12.8%
ROE
21.7%
Debt / Equity
0.91x
Next Step
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