ECL · Ecolab Inc
Price
Snapshot
50 fields · last close| Market Cap | $78.20B |
| P/E | 36.91 |
| Float | 280.9M |
| Beta | 0.88 |
| Volatility | 21.9% |
| Exchange | NYSE |
| Sector | Chemicals |
| Cap tier | Large cap |
| Macro sensitivity | Moderate |
| Clavix score | 82 |
| Price | 279.24 |
| Change | +0.10% |
| Prev Close | 278.97 |
| Open | 281.54 |
| Day Low | 276.15 |
| Day High | 283.00 |
| Avg Vol | 2 |
| Avg $ Vol | $433.6M |
| 52W High | 309.27 |
| 52W Low | 243.15 |
| 52W Pos | 54.6% |
| From High | −9.71% |
| From Low | +14.84% |
| Max DD 1Y | −20.31% |
| Spread | 0.10% |
| Liquidity | Normal |
| SMA 20 | −1.18% |
| SMA 50 | +0.14% |
| SMA 200 | +2.36% |
| RSI (14) | 46.7 |
| Vol 30D | 21.2% |
| Vol 90D | 23.6% |
| 1Y Range | 243–309 |
| Daily bars | 507 |
| Perf Week | −2.43% |
| Perf Month | −2.28% |
| Perf Quarter | +9.69% |
| Perf Half Y | −1.32% |
| Perf Year | +1.47% |
| Perf YTD | +6.32% |
| Prev Day | +0.10% |
| Clavix | A- |
| Debt / Eq | 0.78 |
| Curr Ratio | 1.08 |
| Int Cover | 11.2× |
| FCF Margin | 11.8% |
| Rev Growth | +0.0% |
| Profit | Profitable |
| Leverage | Moderate |
| Sector rank | 3 / 17 |
What ECL does
Ecolab Inc. provides water, hygiene, and infection prevention solutions and services in the United States and internationally.
The company operates through four segments: Global Water, Global Institutional & Specialty, Global Pest Elimination, and Global Life Sciences.
The Global Water segment offers water treatment and process applications, and cleaning and sanitizing solutions to manufacturing, food and beverage processing, transportation, chemical, primary metals and mining, power generation, global refining, petrochemical, pulp and paper industries.
The Global Institutional & Specialty segment provides cleaning and sanitizing products to the foodservice, healthcare, hospitality, lodging, government, education and retail industries.
The Global Pest Elimination segment provides pest elimination services to detect, prevent, and eliminate pests comprising rodents and insects in full-service and quick-service restaurants, food and beverage processors, hotels, grocery operations, and other commercial segments, including education, life sciences, and healthcare.
The Global Life Sciences segment provides cleaning and contamination control solutions to pharmaceutical and personal care manufacturers.
It offers its products under the Ecolab, Kay, Purolite, and Bioquell brand names. The company sells its products through field sales and corporate account personnel, distributors, and dealers.
Ecolab Inc. was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Clavix risk grade
regraded every trading dayECL grades A-, 82 of 100. Steadiest on Price Stability (68), most exposed on Sector Resilience (63, mixed). 2 of the 4 weighted dimensions sit above the Chemicals median. Ranks 3 of 17 in Chemicals by Clavix score.
How rough the ride is
| ECL | Chemicals median | |
|---|---|---|
| Betavs the overall market · lower is steadier | 0.88 | 0.86 |
| Volatilityannualized | 21.9% | 21.4% |
| Max drawdown, past yearworst peak-to-trough fall | −20.3% | — |
| Typical daily movemedian absolute daily change | 0.82% | — |
| Days beyond ±3%of the last 252 sessions | 125% | — |
How its days are spread
Daily returns over the last 252 sessions in 1% bins. Moves beyond ±6% land in the end bins.
52-week range
The bar runs from the lowest to the highest close of the last 252 sessions; the marker is the latest close.
Drawdown from the 1-year peak
Percent below the running high over the last 12 months. Zero is a fresh high.
Market sensitivity
| ECL | Chemicals median | |
|---|---|---|
| Beta to the markethow much it swings with the S&P 500 · lower is safer | 0.88 | 0.86 |
| Macro sensitivityrate, dollar and credit exposure bucket | Moderate | Moderate47% of 17 |
Where it sits on the macro scale
Low means rates, the dollar and credit spreads barely move it. Very High means they drive a large share of its swings. The counts are how many Chemicals names sit in each bucket.
Where it ranks in its sector
Rank by Clavix score within the sector. Right is the top of the sector.
Price performance
| ECL | |
|---|---|
| 1 week | −2.4% |
| 1 month | −2.3% |
| Year to date | +6.3% |
| 1 year | +1.5% |
Context for the rank, not itself a risk measure.
Recent coverage, scored
| ECL | |
|---|---|
| Articles scoredthe most recent scored coverage, up to 30 | 30since 17 Jul |
| Average score0 most bearish, 100 most bullish | 61 |
| Bullish · bearisharticles above 60 · below 40 | 21 · 6 |
| Directionarticles whose tone is improving vs worsening | 21 ↑ 6 ↓ |
Where the article scores land
Each bar is a 10-point band of article scores. Below 40 reads bearish, above 60 bullish.
Balance sheet, against the sector
The shaded band is the middle half of the 17 Chemicals names Clavix covers; the tick is the sector median.
Growth
| ECL | |
|---|---|
| Revenue growthyear over year | +0.0% |
Financial Health is shown but does not count toward the grade. Why
0–100, higher is safer. The tick on each bar is the Chemicals median. Click a dimension for the evidence behind it. Financial Health is shown but does not count toward the grade.
Against Chemicals
17 companies| Metric | ECL | Sector spread | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beta | 0.88 | 0.86 | |
| Volatility | 21.9% | 21.4% | |
| P/E | 36.91 | 33.81 | |
| Debt / equity | 0.78 | 0.61 | |
| Current ratio | 1.08 | 1.43 | |
| FCF margin | 11.8% | 10.7% | |
| Interest coverage | 11.2× | 5.9× |
Recent news
most recent scored articles · the chip is the article’s score · click to openThe Manufacturers Life Insurance Company opened a new position in Ecolab during the second quarter, buying 129,342 shares worth about $36 million, according to a recent SEC filing. The article body is truncated, so further detail is not available.
Twenty-two brokerages covering Ecolab have set an average price target of $327.56 for the stock, giving it a 'Moderate Buy' consensus rating. The split is 1 sell, 3 hold, 17 buy, and at least one additional rating the article does not finish listing.
Ecolab CEO Christophe Beck sold 17,862 of his shares on August 18th at $280.14 each, for about $5 million total, cutting his stake in the company by roughly 20%.
Traders bought 2,998 put options on Ecolab stock on Thursday, a 281% jump from the recent daily average of 786. Put options are contracts that pay off if the share price falls, so the spike points to unusually heavy bearish betting.
Ecolab's Global High-Tech division provides cooling fluids, monitoring technologies, analytical services, and thermal efficiency programs for data center, semiconductor, and industrial technology customers. The division's portfolio includes 3D TRASAR Technology for Direct-to-Chip Liquid Cooling and Cooling-as-a-Service, and it now incorporates CoolIT Systems, which makes direct-to-chip cooling hardware. Pulse 2.0 published an interview with SVP and General Manager Mukul Girotra about AI data center cooling.
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