ECL · Ecolab Inc
Price
Snapshot
50 fields · last close| Market Cap | $80.98B |
| P/E | 38.27 |
| Float | 280.9M |
| Beta | 0.88 |
| Volatility | 21.9% |
| Exchange | NYSE |
| Sector | Chemicals |
| Cap tier | Large cap |
| Macro sensitivity | Moderate |
| Clavix score | 83.9 |
| Price | 285.40 |
| Change | −1.21% |
| Prev Close | 288.89 |
| Open | 292.28 |
| Day Low | 286.00 |
| Day High | 294.29 |
| Avg Vol | 1 |
| Avg $ Vol | $394.4M |
| 52W High | 309.27 |
| 52W Low | 243.15 |
| 52W Pos | 63.9% |
| From High | −7.72% |
| From Low | +17.38% |
| Max DD 1Y | −20.31% |
| Spread | 0.10% |
| Liquidity | Normal |
| SMA 20 | +2.07% |
| SMA 50 | +2.03% |
| SMA 200 | +3.84% |
| RSI (14) | 63.4 |
| Vol 30D | 16.2% |
| Vol 90D | 20.6% |
| 1Y Range | 243–309 |
| Daily bars | 537 |
| Perf Week | +2.51% |
| Perf Month | +6.33% |
| Perf Quarter | +7.53% |
| Perf Half Y | +4.79% |
| Perf Year | +6.75% |
| Perf YTD | +8.67% |
| Prev Day | −1.21% |
| Clavix | A- |
| Debt / Eq | 0.78 |
| Curr Ratio | 1.08 |
| Int Cover | 11.2× |
| FCF Margin | 11.8% |
| Rev Growth | +2.2% |
| Profit | Profitable |
| Leverage | Moderate |
| Sector rank | 2 / 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-, 83.9 of 100. Steadiest on Price Stability (70), most exposed on Sector Resilience (64, mixed). 4 of the 4 weighted dimensions sit above the Chemicals median. Ranks 2 of 17 in Chemicals by Clavix score.
How rough the ride is
| ECL | Chemicals median | |
|---|---|---|
| Betavs the overall market · lower is steadier | 0.88 | 0.70 |
| Volatilityannualized | 21.9% | 17.4% |
| Max drawdown, past yearworst peak-to-trough fall | −20.3% | — |
| Typical daily movemedian absolute daily change | 0.84% | — |
| Days beyond ±3%of the last 252 sessions | 11 (4%) | — |
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 | 0.70 |
| Macro sensitivityrate, dollar and credit exposure bucket | Moderate | Moderate 53% 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 | +2.5% |
| 1 month | +6.3% |
| Year to date | +8.7% |
| 1 year | +6.8% |
Context for the rank, not itself a risk measure.
Recent coverage, scored
| ECL | |
|---|---|
| Articles scoredthe most recent scored coverage, up to 30 | 30 since 29 Jul |
| Average score0 most bearish, 100 most bullish | 59 |
| Bullish · bearisharticles above 60 · below 40 | 18 · 6 |
| Directionarticles whose tone is improving vs worsening | 18 ↑ 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 | +2.2% |
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.
Recent news
most recent scored articles · the chip is the article’s score · click to openAn analysis piece examining whether Ecolab's competitive advantages from its installed on-site water treatment, cleaning, and pest-control equipment justify its high stock valuation. The article notes ECL trades near $277 per share, about 36 times earnings, with sales growing around 5% and a high-tech water-cooling unit for data centers that grew nearly 30% last quarter, following its recent acquisition of CoolIT.
The article groups Rollins, Rentokil, and Ecolab as pest control and sanitation businesses whose contracts keep renewing regardless of market conditions, yet notes that two of the three have lost nearly half their value this year even as their customers keep paying.
An article about pest control and sanitation companies notes that Rollins, Rentokil, and Ecolab sell contracts customers keep renewing automatically, and that two of the three stocks have dropped sharply this year while their customer retention rates have barely changed.
The article groups pest control and sanitation companies, Rollins (NYSE:ROL), Rentokil, and Ecolab, as sellers of sticky, non-cancellable service contracts, and notes the global pest control market grew from $15.4 billion in 2015 to $29.0 billion in 2025. The detailed financial breakdown covers Rollins' Q2 results ($1.08B revenue, up 7.9%, with stable customer retention and gross margin of 52.8%), while Ecolab is named only in the headline with no specific figures or commentary in the body.
Analyst H. Engel at Erste Group Bank lowered his forecast for Ecolab's earnings per share in fiscal year 2027 in a research note issued on Friday, September 18th. The article body is cut off and does not provide the actual numbers.
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