Ecolab Inc. (ECL)

US — Basic Materials Sector
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Key Metrics & Ratings

  • symbol ECL
  • Rev/Share 56.0508
  • Book/Share 34.4053
  • PB 7.6419
  • Debt/Equity 0.892
  • CurrentRatio 1.6968
  • ROIC 0.1151

 

  • MktCap 74264432853.0
  • FreeCF/Share 5.479
  • PFCF 47.8107
  • PE 37.4238
  • Debt/Assets 0.3628
  • DivYield 0.0099
  • ROE 0.2165

 

  • Rating B
  • Score 3
  • Recommendation Neutral
  • P/E Score 1
  • DCF Score 4
  • P/B Score 1
  • D/E Score 1

Recent Analyst Ratings

Type Ticker Analyst Firm Previous Rating Current Rating Previous Price Target Current Price Target Date
Upgrade ECL Evercore ISI In-line Outperform -- $300 Nov. 3, 2025
Initiation ECL Erste Group -- Buy -- -- Oct. 14, 2025
Resumed ECL Raymond James -- Market Perform -- -- Aug. 26, 2025
Upgrade ECL Robert W. Baird Neutral Outperform -- $300 July 30, 2025
Upgrade ECL Seaport Research Partners Neutral Buy -- $290 April 21, 2025
Downgrade ECL Wells Fargo Overweight Equal Weight -- $230 April 16, 2025
Downgrade ECL Redburn Atlantic Buy Neutral -- $270 March 24, 2025
Upgrade ECL Morgan Stanley Equal Weight Overweight $263 $280 Jan. 28, 2025
Upgrade ECL BMO Capital Markets Market Perform Outperform $279 $290 Dec. 17, 2024
Upgrade ECL Jefferies Hold Buy $235 $310 Oct. 18, 2024

News

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Ecolab Appoints Michel Doukeris to Board of Directors
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Published: February 20, 2025 by: Business Wire
Sentiment: Neutral

ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The board of directors of Ecolab Inc. has appointed Michel Doukeris, Chief Executive Officer of AB InBev, to the Ecolab board as an independent director, effective February 20, 2025. “Michel's experience as the CEO of a major global company and his deep knowledge of complex operations, world-class branding of innovative products and winning in consumer industries make him a tremendous addition to our board of directors,” said Christophe Beck, Ecolab chairman an.

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Ecolab Schedules Webcast of Industry Conference for February 26, 2025
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Published: February 12, 2025 by: Business Wire
Sentiment: Neutral

ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Scott Kirkland, chief financial officer Ecolab Inc., will address financial analysts at the Bank of America 2025 Global Agriculture and Materials Conference on Wednesday February 26th. Ecolab will offer a webcast of Mr. Kirkland's presentation. Details for the webcast are as follows: TIME: 9:45am EST DATE: Wednesday, February 26, 2025 DURATION: Approximately 40 minutes LOCATION: www.ecolab.com/investor ARCHIVE: A replay of the webcast will be av.

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Ecolab, Inc. (ECL) Q4 2024 Earnings Call Transcript
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Published: February 11, 2025 by: Seeking Alpha
Sentiment: Neutral

Ecolab, Inc. (NYSE:ECL ) Q4 2024 Earnings Conference Call February 11, 2025 1:00 PM ET Company Participants Andy Hedberg - VP, IR Christophe Beck - Chairman & CEO Scott Kirkland - CFO Conference Call Participants Tim Mulrooney - William Blair Scott Manav Patnaik - Barclays Ashish Sabadra - RBC Capital Markets John McNulty - BMO Capital Markets Jason Hass - Wells Fargo Rachel De Leon - Citigroup Vincent Andrews - Morgan Stanley John Roberts - Mizuho Securities Shlomo Rosenbaum - Stifel. Steve Byrne - Bank of America David Begleiter - Deutsche Bank Jeff Zekauskas - JPMorgan Laurence Alexander - Jefferies …

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About Ecolab Inc. (ECL)

  • IPO Date 1957-01-01
  • Website https://www.ecolab.com
  • Industry Chemicals - Specialty
  • CEO Christophe Beck
  • Employees 48000

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.