ECL - Ecolab Inc Stock Price, Fair Value and News

233.36USD+0.44 (+0.19%)Market Closed

Market Summary

USD233.36+0.44

Market Closed

0.19%

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1 major insider buys recently.

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ECL Valuation

Market Cap

66.6B

Price/Earnings (Trailing)

42.97

Price/Sales (Trailing)

4.3

EV/EBITDA

25.71

Price/Free Cashflow

32.34

ECL Price/Sales (Trailing)

ECL Profitability

EBT Margin

12.41%

Return on Equity

18.86%

Return on Assets

7.28%

Free Cashflow Yield

3.09%

ECL Fundamentals

ECL Revenue

Revenue (TTM)

15.5B

Rev. Growth (Yr)

5.05%

Rev. Growth (Qtr)

-4.74%

ECL Earnings

Earnings (TTM)

1.6B

Earnings Growth (Yr)

76.56%

Earnings Growth (Qtr)

1.7%

Breaking Down ECL Revenue

Last 7 days

3.7%

Last 30 days

2.9%

Last 90 days

15.0%

Trailing 12 Months

35.0%

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ECL Financial Health

Current Ratio

1.41

Debt/Equity

0.92

Debt/Cashflow

0.38

ECL Investor Care

Dividend Yield

0.94%

Dividend/Share (TTM)

2.2

Shares Dilution (1Y)

0.34%

Diluted EPS (TTM)

5.4

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Net sales

Year	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
2024	15.5B	0	0	0
2023	14.5B	14.8B	15.1B	15.3B
2022	13.1B	13.5B	13.9B	14.2B
2021	11.7B	12.1B	12.4B	12.7B
2020	12.7B	12.2B	12.0B	11.8B
2019	12.3B	12.4B	12.5B	12.6B
2018	13.5B	13.2B	12.7B	12.2B
2017	13.2B	13.4B	13.5B	13.8B
2016	13.3B	13.3B	13.2B	13.2B
2015	14.2B	14.1B	13.8B	13.5B
2014	13.7B	13.9B	14.2B	14.3B
2013	11.9B	12.3B	12.7B	13.3B
2012	8.1B	9.4B	10.6B	11.8B
2011	6.2B	6.4B	6.5B	6.8B
2010	6.0B	6.1B	6.1B	6.1B
2009	6.0B	5.9B	5.8B	5.9B
2008	0	5.7B	5.9B	6.1B
2007	0	0	0	5.5B

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Tracking the Latest Insider Buys and Sells of Ecolab Inc

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Datesorted ascending	Name	Buy/Sell	$ Value	Avg. Price	# Shares	Title
May 06, 2024	higgins arthur j	acquired	512,712	113	4,500	-
May 06, 2024	higgins arthur j	sold	-1,023,850	227	-4,500	-
May 03, 2024	maclennan david	bought	147,788	227	650	-
Mar 31, 2024	ballard shari l	acquired	33,748	115	292	-
Mar 31, 2024	green eric mark	acquired	31,249	110	281	-
Mar 31, 2024	vautrinot suzanne m	acquired	-	-	146	-
Mar 31, 2024	higgins arthur j	acquired	31,249	110	281	-
Mar 31, 2024	beck barbara	acquired	36,248	119	303	-
Mar 31, 2024	larson michael	acquired	-	-	146	-
Mar 31, 2024	maclennan david	acquired	12,188	61.2385	199	-

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Datesorted ascending	Fund Name	Type	% Chg	$ Change	$ Held	% Portfolio
May 07, 2024	Sustainable Insight Capital Management, LLC	sold off	-100	-3,817,440	-	-%
May 07, 2024	CHILTON CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC	new	-	50,798	50,798	-%
May 07, 2024	Smithfield Trust Co	unchanged	-	38,000	271,000	0.01%
May 07, 2024	Sanctuary Wealth Management, L.L.C.	unchanged	-	293	2,078	-%
May 07, 2024	CarsonAllaria Wealth Management, Ltd.	new	-	20,088	20,088	0.01%
May 07, 2024	Williams Jones Wealth Management, LLC.	reduced	-0.47	23,145,500	169,034,000	2.15%
May 07, 2024	SilverOak Wealth Management LLC	unchanged	-	446,977	3,170,720	0.79%
May 07, 2024	Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund	added	32.16	820,000	2,342,000	0.04%
May 07, 2024	Concurrent Investment Advisors, LLC	sold off	-100	-325,150	-	-%
May 07, 2024	Headlands Technologies LLC	reduced	-58.24	-693,554	656,218	0.16%

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Unveiling Ecolab Inc's Major ShareHolders

Date Filed	Name of Filer	Percent of Class	No. of Shares	Form Type
Feb 13, 2024	vanguard group inc	8.13%	23,181,648	SC 13G/A
Jan 26, 2024	blackrock inc.	7.6%	21,715,848	SC 13G/A
Feb 09, 2023	vanguard group inc	7.85%	22,344,965	SC 13G/A
Jan 31, 2023	blackrock inc.	7.5%	21,235,449	SC 13G/A
Aug 22, 2022	cascade investment, l.l.c.	10.9%	31,164,142	SC 13D/A
Feb 09, 2022	vanguard group inc	7.54%	21,603,797	SC 13G/A
Feb 01, 2022	blackrock inc.	6.6%	18,885,247	SC 13G/A
Feb 10, 2021	vanguard group inc	7.54%	21,528,995	SC 13G/A
Jan 29, 2021	blackrock inc.	6.8%	19,467,240	SC 13G/A
Feb 12, 2020	vanguard group inc	7.85%	22,637,404	SC 13G/A

Recent SEC filings of Ecolab Inc

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Date Filed	Form Type	Document
May 08, 2024	4	Insider Trading
May 08, 2024	4	Insider Trading
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Peers (Alternatives to Ecolab Inc)

Name	Mkt Capsorted ascending	Revenue	Price %, 1M	Returns, 1Y	P/E	P/S	Rev 1-Yr	Inc 1-Yr
LARGE-CAP
APD	54.8B	12.2B	3.67%	-12.00%	22.19	4.51	-7.47%	13.44%
DOW	41.3B	43.5B	-1.50%	9.24%	32.55	0.95	-18.61%	-57.39%
CE	17.8B	10.9B	-0.86%	56.21%	9.07	1.63	13.10%	3.48%
AVTR	16.5B	6.9B	-5.45%	19.15%	63.41	2.4	-6.48%	-57.90%
ALB	15.3B	8.4B	-0.90%	-33.13%	45.47	1.83	-4.27%	-90.82%
EMN	11.9B	9.1B	0.21%	25.72%	12.81	1.3	-11.38%	33.67%
MID-CAP
CBT	5.6B	3.9B	7.28%	48.47%	12.61	1.43	-9.12%	26.64%
BCPC	5.0B	929.6M	0.20%	21.97%	43.23	5.34	-1.74%	15.81%
AVNT	4.1B	3.1B	5.69%	18.08%	39.2	1.32	-6.69%	-83.56%
ARCH	2.9B	3.0B	4.03%	24.60%	9.03	0.98	-20.68%	-74.38%
SMALL-CAP
CCF	1.2B	404.0M	0.11%	32.60%	36.59	3	24.06%	-25.72%
ASIX	646.9M	1.5B	-13.83%	-28.91%	284.59	0.44	-21.27%	-97.94%
CMT	179.5M	336.4M	10.78%	-1.75%	9.85	0.53	-12.92%	28.47%
AREC	99.8M	16.7M	-8.03%	-13.70%	-8.43	5.96	-57.58%	-718.66%
AMRS	3.7M	-	-80.00%	-99.58%	-0.01	0.01	-	-

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Income Statement (Last 12 Months)

(In Millions)

(*) denotes actual numbers (not divided by Millions)
Income Statement (Quarterly)																					(In Millions)
Description	(%) Q/Q	2024Q1	2023Q4	2023Q3	2023Q2	2023Q1	2022Q4	2022Q3	2022Q2	2022Q1	2021Q4	2021Q3	2021Q2	2021Q1	2020Q4	2020Q3	2020Q2	2020Q1	2019Q4	2019Q3	2019Q2	2019Q1
Revenue	-4.7%	3,752	3,938	3,958	3,852	3,572	3,671	3,669	3,581	3,267	3,365	3,321	3,163	2,885	3,065	3,019	2,686	3,021	3,244	3,224	3,169	2,925
S&GA Expenses	4.1%	1,078	1,035	1,025	1,012	990	922	877	940	915	868	832	853	863	810	803	789	908	886	869	900	896
EBITDA Margin	5.0%	0.18*	0.18*	0.16*	0.15*	0.16*	0.15*	0.16*	0.16*	0.17*	0.17*	0.19*	0.18*	0.17*	0.17*	0.17*	0.19*	0.20*	0.20*	0.20*	-	-
Income Taxes	-66.6%	42.00	127	97.00	87.00	52.00	52.00	60.00	77.00	46.00	44.00	74.00	86.00	66.00	73.00	42.00	14.00	47.00	87.00	83.00	89.00	30.00
Earnings Before Taxes	-14.6%	459	538	506	421	291	322	412	389	220	350	402	400	263	378	292	148	343	486	524	436	286
EBT Margin	8.3%	0.12*	0.11*	0.10*	0.10*	0.10*	0.09*	0.10*	0.10*	0.10*	0.11*	0.12*	0.11*	0.09*	0.10*	0.11*	0.12*	0.14*	0.14*	0.14*	-	-
Net Income	1.7%	412	405	404	330	233	264	347	308	172	301	325	311	194	300	246	-2,035	283	430	464	369	297
Net Income Margin	11.7%	0.10*	0.09*	0.08*	0.08*	0.08*	0.08*	0.08*	0.08*	0.08*	0.09*	0.09*	0.09*	-0.11*	-0.10*	-0.09*	-0.07*	0.12*	0.12*	0.12*	-	-
Free Cashflow	-24.1%	448	590	621	401	25.00	656	244	154	21.00	422	445	360	193	523	340	284	224	594	518	-	-

Balance Sheet

(In Millions)

(*) denotes actual numbers (not divided by Millions)
Balance Sheet																					(In Millions)
Description	(%) Q/Q	2024Q1	2023Q4	2023Q3	2023Q2	2023Q1	2022Q4	2022Q3	2022Q2	2022Q1	2021Q4	2021Q3	2021Q2	2021Q1	2020Q4	2020Q3	2020Q2	2020Q1	2019Q4	2019Q3	2019Q2	2019Q1
Assets	-2.5%	21,299	21,847	21,858	21,456	21,252	21,464	21,037	21,164	21,067	21,206	17,926	18,534	18,208	18,126	18,097	18,082	22,340	20,869	20,836	20,828	20,928
Current Assets	-7.7%	5,212	5,644	5,789	5,437	5,273	5,494	5,099	4,905	4,605	4,687	4,987	5,487	5,150	5,117	4,992	5,166	6,437	4,828	4,870	4,854	4,751
Cash Equivalents	-47.8%	480	920	1,001	554	419	599	113	125	99.00	360	898	1,402	1,190	1,260	1,035	1,369	1,552	119	58.00	16.00	79.00
Inventory	4.6%	1,566	1,497	1,536	1,646	1,727	1,793	1,803	1,721	1,590	1,492	1,378	1,419	1,347	1,285	1,288	1,229	1,530	1,082	1,587	1,625	1,646
Net PPE	-0.7%	3,451	3,475	3,333	3,327	3,313	3,293	3,261	3,264	3,286	3,289	3,070	3,078	3,079	3,125	3,146	3,139	3,921	3,228	3,862	3,867	3,879
Goodwill	-0.5%	8,111	8,148	8,098	8,101	8,062	8,013	7,741	7,936	8,081	8,064	6,126	6,172	6,120	6,007	5,958	5,760	7,232	5,569	7,221	7,234	7,324
Liabilities	-5.1%	13,073	13,774	14,036	13,876	13,887	14,206	13,947	14,045	13,962	13,953	10,964	11,797	11,888	11,925	12,048	12,192	13,479	12,143	12,223	12,558	12,661
Current Liabilities	-14.8%	3,701	4,346	4,601	4,468	4,490	4,210	3,772	3,806	3,631	3,553	2,895	2,880	2,852	2,932	3,106	3,228	4,257	3,631	3,920	4,128	4,156
Long Term Debt	-0.3%	7,529	7,551	7,487	7,500	7,522	8,075	8,027	8,168	8,267	8,347	5,932	6,709	6,686	6,669	6,668	6,752	6,744	5,973	5,967	5,987	6,008
Shareholder's Equity	2.2%	8,226	8,045	7,796	7,581	7,365	7,236	7,090	7,118	7,105	7,253	6,962	6,736	6,320	6,202	6,049	5,890	8,861	8,726	8,612	8,269	8,267
Retained Earnings	2.5%	10,325	10,075	9,833	9,580	9,401	9,319	9,205	9,003	8,840	8,815	8,660	8,473	8,299	8,243	8,080	7,968	10,137	9,994	9,700	9,368	9,132
Additional Paid-In Capital	2.2%	6,918	6,767	6,710	6,684	6,627	6,580	6,552	6,530	6,502	6,465	6,400	6,333	6,286	6,235	6,177	6,155	6,018	5,907	5,874	5,816	5,731
Shares Outstanding	0.1%	286	285	285	285	285	285	285	285	286	286	286	286	286	287	285	288	289	288	288	-	-
Minority Interest	-27.3%	20.00	28.00	27.00	24.00	21.00	23.00	27.00	25.00	24.00	29.00	28.00	27.00	28.00	35.00	35.00	35.00	39.00	41.00	45.00	44.00	46.00
Float	-	-	-	-	53,175	-	-	-	43,776	-	-	-	58,664	-	-	-	56,529	-	-	-	56,548	-

Cashflow (Last 12 Months)

(In Millions)

Cashflow (Quarterly)																					(In Millions)
Description	(%) Q/Q	2024Q1	2023Q4	2023Q3	2023Q2	2023Q1	2022Q4	2022Q3	2022Q2	2022Q1	2021Q4	2021Q3	2021Q2	2021Q1	2020Q4	2020Q3	2020Q2	2020Q1	2019Q4	2019Q3	2019Q2	2019Q1
Cashflow From Operations	-23.8%	649	853	788	573	198	859	437	322	170	641	623	503	295	650	452	387	372	821	682	540	378
Share Based Compensation	116.6%	47.00	22.00	15.00	27.00	31.00	21.00	14.00	25.00	28.00	17.00	14.00	28.00	31.00	17.00	11.00	26.00	27.00	16.00	12.00	23.00	32.00
Cashflow From Investing	42.3%	-201	-348	-178	-274	-189	-210	-195	-181	-129	-3,941	-290	-155	-192	-61.80	-106	-80.80	-165	-269	-271	-180	-477
Cashflow From Financing	-51.9%	-889	-585	-147	-155	-166	-161	-247	-122	-305	2,763	-841	-135	-183	-370	-690	-546	1,266	-502	-371	-358	-117
Dividend Payments	13.3%	175	155	154	151	158	158	145	146	154	140	140	140	147	139	139	138	146	137	136	138	141
Buy Backs	9720.0%	196	2.00	1.00	0.00	11.00	73.00	43.00	141	262	29.00	7.00	9.00	62.00	22.00	20.00	10.00	95.00	5.00	1.00	216	131

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ECL Income Statement

2024-03-31

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME - USD ($) shares in Millions, $ in Millions	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2024	Mar. 31, 2023
Net sales	$ 3,751.9	$ 3,571.6
Cost of sales (including special charges (a))	2,128.1	2,205.2
Selling, general and administrative expenses	1,077.7	990.3
Special (gains) and charges	28.2	24.5
Operating income	517.9	351.6
Other (income) expense	(12.6)	(13.1)
Interest expense, net	71.6	74.2
Income before income taxes	458.9	290.5
Provision for income taxes	42.3	52.4
Net income including noncontrolling interest	416.6	238.1
Net income attributable to noncontrolling interest	4.5	4.7
Net income attributable to Ecolab	$ 412.1	$ 233.4
Earnings attributable to Ecolab per common share
Basic (in dollars per share)	$ 1.44	$ 0.82
Diluted (in dollars per share)	$ 1.43	$ 0.82
Weighted-average common shares outstanding
Basic (in shares)	285.7	284.6
Diluted (in shares)	287.8	285.9
Product and equipment sales
Net sales	$ 2,986.5	$ 2,876.3
Cost of sales (including special charges (a))	1,679.2	1,798.3
Service and lease sales
Net sales	765.4	695.3
Cost of sales (including special charges (a))	$ 448.9	$ 406.9

ECL Balance Sheet

2024-03-31

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS - USD ($) $ in Millions	Mar. 31, 2024	Dec. 31, 2023
Current assets
Cash and cash equivalents	$ 479.9	$ 919.5
Accounts receivable, net	2,786.6	2,834.2
Inventories	1,565.9	1,497.2
Other current assets	379.3	393.2
Total current assets	5,211.7	5,644.1
Property, plant and equipment, net	3,451.1	3,474.6
Goodwill	8,111.4	8,148.2
Other intangible assets, net	3,413.6	3,493.5
Operating lease assets	566.3	553.5
Other assets	544.4	532.7
Total assets	21,298.5	21,846.6
Current liabilities
Short-term debt	11.3	630.4
Accounts payable	1,607.1	1,566.3
Compensation and benefits	527.0	655.5
Income taxes	201.6	158.7
Other current liabilities	1,354.1	1,334.9
Total current liabilities	3,701.1	4,345.8
Long-term debt	7,528.6	7,551.4
Pension and postretirement benefits	640.4	651.7
Deferred income taxes	352.0	418.2
Operating lease liabilities	434.0	425.5
Other liabilities	416.8	381.8
Total liabilities	13,072.9	13,774.4
Commitments and contingencies (Note 16)
Equity (a)
Common stock	366.8	365.7
Additional paid-in capital	6,917.6	6,766.7
Retained earnings	10,324.5	10,075.4
Accumulated other comprehensive loss	(1,881.2)	(1,850.4)
Treasury stock	(7,522.1)	(7,312.7)
Total Ecolab shareholders' equity	8,205.6	8,044.7
Noncontrolling interest	20.0	27.5
Total equity	8,225.6	8,072.2
Total liabilities and equity	$ 21,298.5	$ 21,846.6

About Ecolab Inc

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. Ecolab Inc. was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

CEO	Mr. Christophe Beck
WEBSITE	ecolab.com
INDUSTRY	Chemicals
EMPLOYEES	47000

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Is Ecolab Inc a good stock to buy?

The fair value guage provides a quick view whether ECL is over valued or under valued. Whether Ecolab Inc is cheap or expensive depends on the assumptions which impact Ecolab Inc's fair value. We provide several scenarios of inflation and growth to encompass these range of assumptions for ECL.

What is Ecolab Inc's Price to Earnings (PE) and Price to sales (PS) ratio?

As of Wed May 08 2024, ECL's PE ratio (Price to Earnings) is 42.97 and Price to Sales (PS) ratio is 4.3. The price to earnings and price to sales ratio are two most important valuation metrics for any company. PE ratio tell us the number of years of earnings investors are ready to pay for owning the company. Historically, S&P500 price to earnings ratio has fallen below 12 during periods of gloom and gone past 30 during periods of euphoria. ECL PE ratio will change depending on the future growth rate expectations of investors.

What is 5 year return on Ecolab Inc's stock?

In the past 10 years, Ecolab Inc has provided 0.093 (multiply by 100 for percentage) rate of return.