ECL · Ecolab, Inc.

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Ecolab Inc (ECL)

NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. Chemicals
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$280.03 -0.19 (-0.07%)
At close: September 2 at 4:00:00 PM EDT
$283.73 +3.83 (+1.37%)
🌅 Pre-Market: 7:56:07 AM EDT
DAY'S RANGE $280.03
$279.93 $284.82
52-WEEK RANGE $280.03
$243.15 $309.27

What's happening

  • ECL is down 0.07% today, trading at $280.03. — Live quote
  • Volume today (97,085) is well below its 3-month average of 1,560,100. (Finnhub fundamentals)
  • Last quarter's EPS missed estimates: $2.09 actual vs. $2.10 estimated (-0.6%). (Finnhub earnings history)

Deterministic template sentences filled in from the same sourced figures shown elsewhere on this page -- not an AI-written summary, no live model call.

Key Statistics

Market Cap$78.46B
P/E (TTM1)36.76
EPS2 (TTM)$7.45
Div Yield1.13%
Beta30.88
Volume97,085
Open283.20
Prev Close280.22
Bid / Ask269.78 / 302.08
Next Earnings 2026-10-26 (before market open)

Analyst Recommendations

Strong buy 9 Buy 15 Hold 6 Sell 0 Strong sell 0

Aggregate ratings for 2026-09-01 (30 analysts polled by Finnhub) — consensus count.

Performance Overview (Trailing returns vs S&P 500 benchmark)

YTD RETURN
ECL +6.62%
vs S&P 500 -5.59%
1-YEAR RETURN
ECL +2.44%
vs S&P 500 -16.42%
6-MONTH RETURN
ECL -9.23%
3-MONTH RETURN
ECL +9.22%

Valuation Measures & Ratios

Enterprise Value4$85.83B
Forward P/E531.38
PEG Ratio62.75
Price / Sales (TTM1)4.62
Price / Book77.80
EV4 / Revenue5.10
EV4 / EBITDA24.15
Profit Margin12.57%
Operating Margin16.89%
Return on Equity (ROE8)21.41%
Return on Assets (ROA9)8.17%
Avg Volume (3M)1,560,100
Quarterly history (5 periods)
Measure Jun '26Mar '26Sep '25Jun '25Mar '25
Market cap $78.40B $75.48B $77.52B $75.98B $71.43B
P/E 37.75 38.82
Price/Sales 4.70 4.73 4.88 4.83 4.55
Price/Book 7.80 7.54 7.98 8.15 8.05
EV/Revenue 4.47 4.70 4.76 4.71 4.48
ROE 20.65% 19.44%
ROA 6.94% 7.76%

Trailing-twelve-month ratios computed from SEC EDGAR quarterly figures and historical daily close prices (Alpaca). Diluted shares are derived from Net income ÷ EPS (diluted) for each quarter, not separately reported. Forward P/E and PEG aren't shown here — both need historical analyst-consensus estimates, which no free source provides; see the current-period figures above instead.

Glossary — what these abbreviations mean
1. TTM
Trailing twelve months — the sum of the last four reported quarters, not a calendar year or the single latest quarter.
2. EPS
Earnings per share — net income divided by diluted shares outstanding.
3. Beta
A stock's historical volatility relative to the overall market. Above 1 means it has moved more than the market; below 1, less.
4. EV (Enterprise Value)
Market cap plus total debt minus cash — roughly what it would cost to buy the whole company, debt included.
5. Forward P/E
Price divided by analysts' estimated earnings for the next 12 months, instead of trailing actual earnings.
6. PEG Ratio
P/E divided by expected earnings growth rate. A lower number can indicate a stock is cheap relative to how fast it's expected to grow.
7. Price / Book
Share price divided by book value (assets minus liabilities) per share.
8. ROE
Return on equity — net income divided by shareholders' equity, a measure of how efficiently a company turns equity into profit.
9. ROA
Return on assets — net income divided by total assets, a measure of how efficiently a company turns assets into profit.
10. MRQ
Most recent quarter — the single latest reported period, as opposed to TTM. The Financials section's "Quarterly" view below shows MRQ-style figures.
11. YoY
Year over year — percent change versus the same period one year earlier, used for growth figures like those on Compare cards and the Screener.

Short Interest

Shares Short3,477,715
Change from Prior Settlement+12.30%
% of Float
Days to Cover (Short Ratio)3.17

Source: FINRA Rule 4560 consolidated short interest, settlement date 2026-08-14. Reported bi-monthly with a reporting lag — not real-time.

Quotes and the 1-day extended-hours chart: Yahoo Finance. Longer historical charts: Alpaca (IEX feed) — real-time but IEX-only volume (~2.5% of consolidated market volume). Fundamentals + earnings: Finnhub.

Price history

Events

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Technical signal summary

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Free IEX historical data only goes back to ~2021 — 5Y/Full show whatever's actually available, not a promise of that much history. Indicators are computed client-side from these same price bars; earnings markers ("E") come from Finnhub's free tier (~last 4 quarters + next upcoming) — older quarters aren't available. The move-highlight dots are a heuristic (|% change| vs rolling volatility) with a best-effort headline lookup, not a claim of causation.

Peer and sector context

No reviewed peer group is available for this symbol.

Balanced evidence

A deterministic summary of sourced facts—not an AI verdict.

Potential strengths

Potential concerns

  • Trailing P/E is 36.8, a high price relative to reported earnings. Finnhub fundamentals ↗
  • Latest SEC filing is Form 4, filed 2026-08-20; review it for current changes and risks. SEC EDGAR ↗

Rule-based facts only; absence from either side is not evidence, and this is not a recommendation.

Financials

Income statement

Line item Jun '26Mar '26Sep '25Jun '25Mar '25Dec '24Sep '24Jun '24
Revenue $4.42B $4.07B $4.17B $4.03B $3.69B $4.01B $4.00B $3.99B
Operating income $757.9M $622.0M $760.2M $710.1M $555.3M $582.8M $1.04B $656.9M
Net income $534.9M $432.6M $585.0M $524.2M $402.5M $736.5M $490.9M
EPS (diluted) $1.90 $1.52 $2.05 $1.84 $1.41 $1.66 $2.58 $1.71
EPS (basic) $1.91 $1.53 $2.06 $1.85 $1.42 $1.67 $2.60 $1.72
Operating margin $17 $15 $18 $18 $15 $15 $26 $16

Balance sheet

Line item Jun '26Mar '26Dec '25Sep '25Jun '25Mar '25Dec '24Sep '24
Total assets $29.93B $25.04B $24.70B $23.90B $23.74B $22.37B $22.39B $22.10B
Total liabilities $19.84B $15.01B $14.89B $14.14B $14.39B $13.46B $13.60B $13.53B
Stockholders' equity $10.06B $10.00B $9.77B $9.72B $9.32B $8.88B $8.76B $8.55B
Total current assets $11.02B $6.04B $5.96B $7.11B $7.08B $6.08B $6.03B $6.12B
Total current liabilities $5.99B $6.10B $5.53B $4.19B $4.91B $4.61B $4.79B $4.71B
Cash & equivalents $5.14B $519.8M $646.2M $1.96B $1.92B $1.16B $1.26B $1.26B

Cash flow

Line item Jun '26Mar '26Dec '25Sep '25Jun '25Mar '25Jan '25Dec '24
Operating cash flow $729.5M $445.9M $1.09B $791.3M $701.8M $369.4M $766.7M
Investing cash flow -$274.0M -$355.5M -$1.98B -$280.6M -$224.4M -$224.0M -$627.5M
Financing cash flow $4.15B -$225.8M -$431.6M -$477.4M $297.3M -$241.6M -$140.1M
Free cash flow $489.4M $97.4M $758.0M $529.7M $485.1M $131.5M $407.0M
Capital expenditures $240.1M $348.5M $332.1M $261.6M $216.7M $237.9M $359.7M
Depreciation & amortization

Source: SEC EDGAR XBRL filings (10-Q/10-K), as originally tagged by the company. Quarterly cash flow is reconstructed by de-cumulating fiscal-year-to-date figures (how cash flow is tagged in 10-Qs); other quarterly lines are reported directly.

Institutional holders

SEC Form 13F filers holding ECL as of the latest reported quarter. 13F only covers investment managers with $100M+ in assets — this is not a complete ownership picture, and does not include insiders (see Recent SEC filings below) or non-13F-eligible holders.

Source: Business Quant SEC Form 13F · report period 2026-03-31 · 30 filers

Held by These Filers37.9%
Shares Outstanding369,400,000
FilerSharesValue% OutQtr ChangeFiled
BlackRock, Inc. 22,807,096 $6.07B 6.17% +1.0% 2026-03-31
VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC 16,522,569 $4.40B 4.47% +0.0% 2026-05-08
Jpmorgan Chase & Co 11,662,354 $3.06B 3.16% +9.8% 2026-05-13
State Street Corp 11,222,653 $2.99B 3.04% +1.2% 2026-05-15
Morgan Stanley 7,791,023 $2.07B 2.11% -1.2% 2026-05-15
VANGUARD PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT LLC 6,319,029 $1.68B 1.71% +0.0% 2026-05-08
GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC 5,990,534 $1.61B 1.62% +6.3% 2026-05-15
GATES FOUNDATION TRUST 5,218,044 $1.39B 1.41% +0.0% 2026-05-15
Aristotle Capital Management, LLC 3,708,479 $986.5M 1.00% -4.6% 2026-05-15
UBS AM, a distinct business unit of UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS LLC 3,565,713 $948.6M 0.97% +2.8% 2026-05-13
Royal Bank Of Canada 3,496,925 $930.3M 0.95% -0.9% 2026-05-13
Janus Henderson Group Plc 3,402,302 $905.1M 0.92% +113.8% 2026-05-18
Pictet Asset Management Holding SA 3,259,055 $866.8M 0.88% -15.6% 2026-04-22
Capital Research Global Investors 3,072,430 $817.3M 0.83% +131.2% 2026-05-12
Northern Trust Corp 2,780,360 $739.6M 0.75% -2.5% 2026-05-12
Invesco Ltd. 2,601,641 $692.1M 0.70% -0.5% 2026-05-12
Franklin Resources Inc 2,509,572 $667.6M 0.68% -4.0% 2026-05-08
Amundi 2,412,057 $641.6M 0.65% +3.8% 2026-05-15
ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP 2,243,825 $596.9M 0.61% +58.8% 2026-05-14
Goldman Sachs Group Inc 2,009,164 $534.5M 0.54% -51.4% 2026-05-15
Bank Of America Corp /De/ 1,967,290 $523.3M 0.53% -12.0% 2026-05-15
Legal & General Group Plc 1,940,930 $516.3M 0.53% -6.8% 2026-05-08
FMR LLC 1,800,313 $478.9M 0.49% +2.9% 2026-05-15
DZ BANK AG Deutsche Zentral Genossenschafts Bank, Frankfurt am Main 1,797,894 $478.3M 0.49% -21.5% 2026-05-15
NORDEA INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT AB 1,759,281 $457.7M 0.48% +2.4% 2026-05-13

Insider activity

Directors, officers, and 10%+ owners' reported transactions from SEC Form 4. A filing reports a transaction; it does not by itself explain why it happened.

Source: SEC EDGAR Form 4 filings · checked 25 most recent filings · covers 2026-05-22 to 2026-08-18

Recent transactions

  • Insiders have net sold 28,040 shares over the last 182 days, across 2 purchases and 5 sales.
  • Most recent: Beck Christophe (CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT & CEO) — Open market sale of 17,862 shares on 2026-08-18.

Deterministic template sentences filled in from the SEC Form 4 figures in the tables below -- not an AI-written summary, no live model call.

Insider purchases & sales, last 6 months

Purchases (open market)8,750 sh(2 txns)
Sales (open market)36,790 sh(5 txns)
Net Shares-28,040

Counts only open-market purchases (code P) and sales (code S) — grants, option exercises, tax withholding, and gifts are excluded since they aren't a market buy/sell decision.

Insider roster

NameTitleMost Recent TransactionDateShares
Beck ChristopheCHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT & CEOOpen market sale2026-08-1817,862
Cook Gregory BCo-COO - Global BusinessesOpen market sale2026-08-114,567
Bradway Jennifer JSVP & CORPORATE CONTROLLEROption exercise2026-08-036,457
Kirkland Scott DCHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICEROption exercise2026-07-303,972
ZILLMER JOHN JReporting personGrant / award2026-06-30130
Whalen JulieReporting personGrant / award2026-06-30130
Vautrinot Suzanne MReporting personGrant / award2026-06-30130
NOWELL LIONEL L IIIReporting personGrant / award2026-06-30130
McKibben Tracy BReporting personGrant / award2026-06-30130
MacLennan DavidReporting personGrant / award2026-06-30130
LARSON MICHAELReporting personGrant / award2026-06-30130
Gross Marion K.Reporting personGrant / award2026-06-30130
Green Eric MarkReporting personGrant / award2026-06-30130
Doukeris Michel DReporting personGrant / award2026-06-30130
Ballard Shari LReporting personGrant / award2026-06-30130
Althoff JudsonReporting personGrant / award2026-06-30130
Clark Benjamin M.EVP - Global Supply ChainOpen market purchase2026-06-111,000
Brown Darrell RCo-COO - Global MarketsOption exercise2026-06-0910,000

Recent transactions

DateInsiderTitleTransactionSharesPrice
2026-08-18Beck ChristopheCHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT & CEOOpen market sale 17,862$280.14
2026-08-11Cook Gregory BCo-COO - Global BusinessesOpen market sale 4,567$285.13
2026-08-03Bradway Jennifer JSVP & CORPORATE CONTROLLEROption exercise 6,457
2026-08-03Bradway Jennifer JSVP & CORPORATE CONTROLLERTax withholding 2,944$278.79
2026-07-30Kirkland Scott DCHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICEROption exercise 3,972$117.73
2026-07-30Kirkland Scott DCHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICEROpen market sale 3,357$276.96
2026-06-30ZILLMER JOHN JReporting personGrant / award 130$0.00
2026-06-30Whalen JulieReporting personGrant / award 130$0.00
2026-06-30Vautrinot Suzanne MReporting personGrant / award 130$0.00
2026-06-30NOWELL LIONEL L IIIReporting personGrant / award 130$0.00
2026-06-30McKibben Tracy BReporting personGrant / award 130$0.00
2026-06-30MacLennan DavidReporting personGrant / award 130$0.00
2026-06-30MacLennan DavidReporting personGrant / award 46$278.46
2026-06-30LARSON MICHAELReporting personGrant / award 130$0.00
2026-06-30Gross Marion K.Reporting personGrant / award 130$0.00
2026-06-30Green Eric MarkReporting personGrant / award 130$0.00
2026-06-30Green Eric MarkReporting personGrant / award 144$278.46
2026-06-30Doukeris Michel DReporting personGrant / award 130$0.00
2026-06-30Ballard Shari LReporting personGrant / award 130$0.00
2026-06-30Ballard Shari LReporting personGrant / award 130$278.46
2026-06-30Althoff JudsonReporting personGrant / award 130$0.00
2026-06-11Clark Benjamin M.EVP - Global Supply ChainOpen market purchase 1,000$263.83
2026-06-10Doukeris Michel DReporting personOpen market purchase 7,750$258.00
2026-06-09Brown Darrell RCo-COO - Global MarketsOption exercise 10,000$117.73
2026-06-09Brown Darrell RCo-COO - Global MarketsOpen market sale 10,000$260.89
2026-05-27Vautrinot Suzanne MReporting personOpen market sale 1,004$264.98
2026-05-22Vautrinot Suzanne MReporting personOption exercise 2,000$125.67
2026-05-22Vautrinot Suzanne MReporting personTax withholding 996$252.27

Recent SEC filings

Official company reports and insider transaction filings. Form 4 reports a transaction; it does not by itself explain why it happened.

Source: SEC EDGAR submissions · updated 2026-09-03 12:30 UTC

FiledFormReport periodOfficial filing
2026-08-2042026-08-18 View on SEC.gov →
2026-08-1142026-08-11 View on SEC.gov →
2026-08-0610-Q2026-06-30 View on SEC.gov →
2026-08-0542026-08-03 View on SEC.gov →
2026-07-3142026-07-30 View on SEC.gov →
2026-07-288-K2026-07-28 View on SEC.gov →
2026-07-0242026-06-30 View on SEC.gov →
2026-07-0242026-06-30 View on SEC.gov →
2026-07-0242026-06-30 View on SEC.gov →
2026-07-0242026-06-30 View on SEC.gov →
2026-07-0242026-06-30 View on SEC.gov →
2026-07-0242026-06-30 View on SEC.gov →

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