Ecolab Inc. (ECL)
Ecolab sells water treatment, cleaning, sanitising and infection prevention products and the services that go with them, largely to businesses that have to keep processes clean and water usable. It was incorporated in Delaware in 1924. The company reports $16 billion of annual sales, 48,000 associates, and customers in more than 170 countries and 40 industries, and states that it helps protect one-third of the world's food production and a quarter of the power generated. It operates directly in approximately 100 countries outside the United States, through wholly owned subsidiaries or in some cases a joint venture with a local partner, with selected products exported to distributors, agents or licensees elsewhere.
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Ecolab (ECL) reported revenue of $16.1 billion for fiscal 2025, the year ended 31 December 2025, up 2.2% on the year before. Net income was $2.1 billion and diluted earnings per share $7.28. Revenue was $15.7 billion in fiscal 2024, $15.3 billion in fiscal 2023, $14.2 billion in fiscal 2022 and $12.7 billion in fiscal 2021. Net income in the same years was $2.1 billion, $1.4 billion, $1.1 billion and $1.1 billion. Over the twelve months to 30 September 2026, Ecolab reported revenue of $17.4 billion and net income of $2.1 billion. Revenue grew 6.4% a year, compounded, over the five years to fiscal 2025. Ecolab declared $2.92 a share in dividends over the last four quarters and had 280 million shares outstanding at the latest filed count. At 30 September 2026 it carried $13.2 billion of debt and $722 million of cash. At the close of 6 November 2026 the market cap of Ecolab was $84.3 billion, 40.9 times its earnings over the last twelve months.Ratios
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ROE20.0%
ROCE12.3%
Operating margin16.7%
Net margin12.0%
FCF margin10.3%
Interest cover7.4x
Debt to equity1.27x
Cash conversion1.45x
Share count, last 12 months-1.0%
Sales CAGR, 3 years4.3%
Profit CAGR, 3 years23.9%
EPS, TTM$7.35
At the close of 6 November 2026
Price$300.69
Market cap$84.3 billion
Stock P/E40.9x
Price to book8.1x
EV / EBITDA24.3x
Dividend yield1.0%
Market cap / sales4.9x
52-week high$315.05
52-week low$245.73
Price, 1 year18.8%
Price CAGR, 3 years20.0%
Price CAGR, 5 years5.4%
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| Q4 FY2021 | Q1 FY2022 | Q2 FY2022 | Q3 FY2022 | Q4 FY2022 | Q1 FY2023 | Q2 FY2023 | Q3 FY2023 | Q4 FY2023 | Q1 FY2024 | Q2 FY2024 | Q3 FY2024 | Q4 FY2024 | Q1 FY2025 | Q2 FY2025 | Q3 FY2025 | Q4 FY2025 * | Q1 FY2026 | Q2 FY2026 | Q3 FY2026 | |
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| Revenue | 3,365 | 3,267 | 3,581 | 3,669 | 3,671 | 3,572 | 3,852 | 3,958 | 3,938 | 3,752 | 3,986 | 3,998 | 4,005 | 3,695 | 4,025 | 4,165 | 4,196 | 4,066 | 4,415 | 4,695 |
| Cost of revenue | 2,043 | 2,073 | 2,211 | 2,292 | 2,255 | 2,205 | 2,335 | 2,330 | 2,284 | 2,128 | 2,241 | 2,262 | 2,269 | 2,060 | 2,223 | 2,299 | 2,348 | 2,295 | 2,470 | 2,626 |
| Gross profit | 1,322 | 1,193 | 1,370 | 1,378 | 1,416 | 1,366 | 1,517 | 1,628 | 1,654 | 1,624 | 1,745 | 1,737 | 1,736 | 1,635 | 1,802 | 1,866 | 1,848 | 1,771 | 1,946 | 2,069 |
| Gross margin | 39% | 37% | 38% | 38% | 39% | 38% | 39% | 41% | 42% | 43% | 44% | 43% | 43% | 44% | 45% | 45% | 44% | 44% | 44% | 44% |
| SG&A | 868 | 915 | 940 | 877 | 922 | 990 | 1,012 | 1,025 | 1,035 | 1,078 | 1,076 | 1,025 | 1,050 | 1,050 | 1,068 | 1,079 | 1,061 | 1,102 | 1,142 | 1,177 |
| Operating income | 388 | 254 | 426 | 483 | 399 | 352 | 485 | 566 | 590 | 518 | 657 | 1,045 | 583 | 555 | 710 | 760 | 712 | 622 | 758 | 810 |
| Operating margin | 12% | 8% | 12% | 13% | 11% | 10% | 13% | 14% | 15% | 14% | 16% | 26% | 15% | 15% | 18% | 18% | 17% | 15% | 17% | 17% |
| Interest expense | 46.8 | 55.1 | 57.3 | 66.7 | 73.0 | 80.1 | 82.7 | 91.3 | 94.8 | 94.5 | 80.2 | 86.4 | 79.2 | 72.6 | 76.2 | 74.6 | 82.8 | 77.3 | 95.0 | 136 |
| Pre-tax income | 350 | 220 | 389 | 412 | 322 | 290 | 421 | 506 | 538 | 459 | 591 | 987 | 534 | 510 | 660 | 718 | 660 | 558 | 694 | 694 |
| Tax rate | 13% | 21% | 20% | 15% | 16% | 18% | 21% | 19% | 24% | 9% | 16% | 25% | 10% | 20% | 20% | 18% | 14% | 22% | 22% | 20% |
| Net income | 301 | 172 | 308 | 347 | 264 | 233 | 330 | 404 | 405 | 412 | 491 | 736 | 473 | 402 | 524 | 585 | 564 | 433 | 535 | 551 |
| Net margin | 9% | 5% | 9% | 9% | 7% | 7% | 9% | 10% | 10% | 11% | 12% | 18% | 12% | 11% | 13% | 14% | 13% | 11% | 12% | 12% |
| Diluted EPS | $1.04 | $0.60 | $1.08 | $1.21 | $0.93 | $0.82 | $1.15 | $1.41 | $1.41 | $1.43 | $1.71 | $2.58 | $1.66 | $1.41 | $1.84 | $2.05 | $1.98 | $1.52 | $1.90 | $1.95 |
| Operating cash flow | 641 | 170 | 322 | 437 | 859 | 198 | 573 | 788 | 852 | 649 | 611 | 787 | 767 | 369 | 702 | 791 | 1,090 | 446 | 730 | 764 |
| Capital expenditure | 219 | 149 | 169 | 192 | 203 | 174 | 172 | 166 | 263 | 202 | 197 | 236 | 360 | 238 | 217 | 262 | 332 | 348 | 240 | 313 |
| Free cash flow | 422 | 21.4 | 154 | 244 | 656 | 24.5 | 401 | 621 | 590 | 448 | 414 | 550 | 407 | 132 | 485 | 530 | 758 | 97.4 | 489 | 450 |
| Buybacks | 28.8 | 262 | 141 | 42.6 | 72.8 | 10.6 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 2.0 | 196 | 323 | 464 | 2.8 | 154 | 45.5 | 175 | 409 | 344 | 325 | 2.8 |
| Dividends paid | 140 | 154 | 146 | 145 | 158 | 158 | 151 | 154 | 155 | 175 | 166 | 162 | 161 | 192 | 188 | 184 | 189 | 216 | 208 | 205 |
| Shares outstanding | 287m | 286m | 285m | 285m | 284m | 285m | 285m | 285m | 285m | 286m | 284m | 283m | 283m | 284m | 284m | 283m | 282m | 281m | 280m | 280m |
| Filing | 10-K | 10-Q | 10-Q | 10-Q | 10-K | 10-Q | 10-Q | 10-Q | 10-K | 10-Q | 10-Q | 10-Q | 10-K | 10-Q | 10-Q | 10-Q | 10-K | 10-Q | 10-Q | 10-Q |
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* The fourth quarter is the full year less the first three quarters, because the company files the year and not the quarter on its own. A fourth quarter's EPS, and its diluted share count where shown, are from the company's results press release for that quarter, checked against the company's filed figures or a second data source. Money is in $ million as the company files it, or in $ billion by the switch above the tables; per share figures and the share count are as they are. Free cash flow is operating cash flow less capital expenditure; the effective tax rate is income tax over pre-tax income; margins are the line over revenue. Gross profit is revenue less cost of revenue, and operating income is revenue less the company's own total costs, where the statement does not print those lines. Cash flow lines filed year to date are the difference between two filings. Shares outstanding are at the period end where the balance sheet tags them, otherwise the count on the filing's cover page. A derived fourth-quarter EPS is left blank when a split in the year makes the arithmetic meaningless.Income statement (profit and loss)
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Each column runs from the last twelve months as filed to the year chosen in its heading, at a yearly rate. Sales growth starts at the company's own five-year rate and eases a third of the way each year toward the median of the 33 peers in Consumer Goods (2.2% a year), because a rate far from the rest rarely lasts. Before you open a year, the strip reads today's price backwards: the yearly sales growth that brings EPS, at the company's own margins, tax and share count, to today's price at the median P/E of the 21 peers in Consumer Goods (20.6). Low, middle, high opens three columns for one year: the low and high cases take the company's own weaker and stronger years in the table (the lower and upper quarter of its yearly sales growth and operating margin) and the lower and higher of today's P/E and its peers'; the middle is the boxes as they open. Net income keeps the share that went to minority holders; EPS is net income over the diluted shares, on the same basis as the EPS in the table. The price is that year's EPS at the P/E you set, and the yearly return runs from today's price to the year's end. These are your assumptions and your arithmetic, not an estimate of ours. The link carries your columns, so you can send the forecast to someone.| FY2007 | FY2008 | FY2009 | FY2010 † | FY2011 † | FY2012 † | FY2013 † | FY2014 † | FY2015 | FY2016 † | FY2017 † | FY2018 † | FY2019 † | FY2020 | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 | TTM | |
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| Revenue | 5,470 | 6,138 | 5,901 | 6,090 | 6,798 | 11,839 | 13,253 | 14,280 | 13,545 | 13,152 | 11,531 | 12,222 | 12,562 | 11,790 | 12,733 | 14,188 | 15,320 | 15,741 | 16,081 | 17,372 |
| Cost of revenue | 2,692 | 3,142 | 2,978 | 3,014 | 3,476 | 6,385 | 7,161 | 7,679 | 7,224 | 7,534 | 6,415 | 6,875 | 7,046 | 6,906 | 7,616 | 8,831 | 9,155 | 8,900 | 8,931 | 9,739 |
| Gross profit | 2,778 | 2,996 | 2,923 | 3,076 | 3,323 | 5,453 | 6,092 | 6,601 | 6,322 | 5,618 | 5,116 | 5,347 | 5,516 | 4,884 | 5,117 | 5,357 | 6,165 | 6,842 | 7,150 | 7,634 |
| Gross margin | 50.8% | 48.8% | 49.5% | 50.5% | 48.9% | 46.1% | 46.0% | 46.2% | 46.7% | 42.7% | 44.4% | 43.7% | 43.9% | 41.4% | 40.2% | 37.8% | 40.2% | 43.5% | 44.5% | 43.9% |
| Research and development | n/a | 86.0 | 86.0 | 88.0 | 96.0 | 183 | 188 | 197 | 191 | 189 | 177 | 193 | 190 | 185 | 186 | 190 | 192 | 207 | 202 | n/a |
| Selling, general and administrative | 2,089 | 2,257 | 2,174 | 2,262 | 2,438 | 4,018 | 4,360 | 4,578 | 4,346 | 3,708 | 3,364 | 3,506 | 3,551 | 3,309 | 3,416 | 3,654 | 4,062 | 4,228 | 4,258 | 4,482 |
| Operating income | 669 | 713 | 681 | 807 | 754 | 1,289 | 1,561 | 1,955 | 1,561 | 1,870 | 1,747 | 1,728 | 1,845 | 1,396 | 1,599 | 1,562 | 1,992 | 2,802 | 2,738 | 2,902 |
| Operating margin | 12.2% | 11.6% | 11.5% | 13.2% | 11.1% | 10.9% | 11.8% | 13.7% | 11.5% | 14.2% | 15.2% | 14.1% | 14.7% | 11.8% | 12.6% | 11.0% | 13.0% | 17.8% | 17.0% | 16.7% |
| Interest expense | n/a | 70.8 | 67.5 | 65.6 | 82.1 | 286 | 273 | 268 | 254 | 285 | 272 | 236 | 214 | 305 | 231 | 252 | 349 | 340 | 306 | 391 |
| Pre-tax income | 618 | 651 | 620 | 748 | 680 | 1,013 | 1,298 | 1,698 | 1,318 | 1,650 | 1,560 | 1,587 | 1,732 | 1,161 | 1,414 | 1,343 | 1,756 | 2,571 | 2,548 | 2,606 |
| Income tax | 189 | 203 | 201 | 217 | 216 | 311 | 325 | 476 | 300 | 403 | 190 | 321 | 289 | 177 | 270 | 234 | 362 | 439 | 455 | 508 |
| Effective tax rate | 30.6% | 31.1% | 32.5% | 29.0% | 31.8% | 30.7% | 25.0% | 28.0% | 22.8% | 24.4% | 12.2% | 20.2% | 16.7% | 15.2% | 19.1% | 17.5% | 20.6% | 17.1% | 17.8% | 19.5% |
| Net income | 427 | 448 | 417 | 530 | 462 | 704 | 968 | 1,203 | 1,002 | 1,230 | 1,505 | 1,429 | 1,559 | -1,205 | 1,130 | 1,092 | 1,372 | 2,112 | 2,076 | 2,083 |
| Net margin | 7.8% | 7.3% | 7.1% | 8.7% | 6.8% | 5.9% | 7.3% | 8.4% | 7.4% | 9.3% | 13.0% | 11.7% | 12.4% | -10.2% | 8.9% | 7.7% | 9.0% | 13.4% | 12.9% | 12.0% |
| Diluted EPS | $1.70 | $1.80 | $1.74 | $2.23 | $1.91 | $2.35 | $3.16 | $3.93 | $3.32 | $4.14 | $5.13 | $4.88 | $5.33 | -$4.15 | $3.91 | $3.81 | $4.79 | $7.37 | $7.28 | $7.35 |
| Filing | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | 8-K | 8-K | 8-K | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K |
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Free cash flow is operating cash flow less capital expenditure; the effective tax rate is income tax over pre-tax income; margins are the line over revenue. Gross profit is revenue less cost of revenue, and operating income is revenue less the company's own total costs, where the statement does not print those lines. Those four are arithmetic on the filed numbers; everything else is as filed. Money is in $ million as the company files it, or in $ billion by the switch above the tables; per share figures and share counts are as they are. † The year as the company last restated it in a later filing; rest on a figure for the one first filed. EPS is as filed.Revenue by segment FY2010 to FY2025, 1 year left out
| FY2010 | FY2011 | FY2012 | FY2013 | FY2014 | FY2015 | FY2016 | FY2018 | FY2019 | FY2020 | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 | Share of the parts, latest year | |
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| Global Water | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 7,680 | 53.5% |
| Global Institutional and Specialty | n/a | 3,852 | 4,063 | 4,202 | 4,314 | 4,165 | 4,440 | 4,302 | 4,402 | 3,553 | 3,967 | 1,534 | 1,608 | 1,434 | 5,962 | 41.6% |
| Global Life Sciences | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 940 | 973 | 1,182 | 1,182 | 964 | 1,070 | 1,168 | 706 | 4.9% |
| Corporate | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 139 | 89.2 | 42.7 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Currency impact | 19.9 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Global Energy | n/a | 100 | 2,275 | 3,533 | 4,284 | 3,520 | 3,076 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Global Industrial | n/a | 2,037 | 4,762 | 4,905 | 4,867 | 4,551 | 4,687 | 5,807 | 5,980 | 5,871 | 6,238 | 4,433 | 5,015 | 5,414 | n/a | n/a |
| International Cleaning, Sanitizing & Services | 2,899 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Other | n/a | 701 | 736 | 715 | 750 | 743 | 802 | 1,174 | 1,208 | 1,084 | 1,208 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| U.S. Cleaning and Sanitizing | 2,722 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| U.S. Other Services | 448 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Global Pest Elimination | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 7,173 | 7,640 | 7,857 | 1,219 | n/a |
| Not assigned to a part in the filing | n/a | 108 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 567 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 514 | n/a |
Global Water FY2025Global Institutional and Specialty FY2011 to FY2025Global Life Sciences FY2018 to FY2025Global Industrial FY2011 to FY2024Corporate FY2021 to FY2023Other FY2011 to FY2021Global Energy FY2011 to FY2016International Cleaning, Sanitizing & Services FY2010U.S. Cleaning and Sanitizing FY2010U.S. Other Services FY2010Currency impact FY2010
$ billion; hover a block for its figure and share; the figure over a bar is its parts, before the lines named below; a part named with years is one the company split its revenue into only then
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Each year's figures come from the most recent 10-K that includes that year. A year is shown only where the parts add up to the revenue above. Fiscal years are labelled by the year they end in. Global Pest Elimination and Not assigned to a part in the filing are the company's own eliminations and corporate items, which take the parts to revenue: shown as filed, with no share and no block in the chart.Profit by segment FY2010 to FY2025, 5 years left out
The operating profit each segment reports. Costs Ecolab does not charge to a segment are left out, so the segments can add up to more than the company's own operating profit.
| FY2010 | FY2011 | FY2012 | FY2013 | FY2014 | FY2015 | FY2016 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 | Margin FY2025 | |
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| Global Water | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 1,264 | 16.5% |
| Global Institutional and Specialty | n/a | 586 | 703 | 754 | 773 | 867 | 950 | 193 | 161 | 147 | 1,358 | 22.8% |
| Global Life Sciences | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 197 | 210 | 220 | 121 | 17.1% |
| Corporate | -30.5 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | -414 | -333 | -15.8 | -353 | n/a |
| Currency impact | -2.5 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Global Energy | n/a | 16.2 | 337 | 435 | 535 | 475 | 350 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Global Industrial | n/a | 234 | 542 | 576 | 539 | 639 | 758 | 632 | 842 | 1,183 | n/a | n/a |
| International Cleaning, Sanitizing & Services | 254 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Other | n/a | 96.6 | 108 | 103 | 110 | 125 | 142 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| U.S. Cleaning and Sanitizing | 514 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| U.S. Other Services | 71.4 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Global Water FY2025Global Industrial FY2011 to FY2024International Cleaning, Sanitizing & Services FY2010Global Institutional and Specialty FY2011 to FY2025U.S. Cleaning and Sanitizing FY2010Global Life Sciences FY2022 to FY2025Global Energy FY2011 to FY2016U.S. Other Services FY2010Currency impact FY2010Corporate FY2010 to FY2025Other FY2011 to FY2016
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FY2025Share of salesShare of profit
Global Water54%46%
Global Institutional and Specialty42%50%
Global Life Sciences5%4%
Corporate0%a loss
Each column adds to 100%. A segment with a bigger share of the profit than of the sales makes more on each dollar it sells.
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Each year's figures come from the most recent 10-K that includes that year. A year is shown only where every segment with sales that year has an operating profit figure. A margin is a segment's operating profit over its own sales.Revenue by product or service FY2016 to FY2025, 1 year left out
| FY2016 | FY2018 | FY2019 | FY2020 | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 | Share of the parts, latest year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Product and equipment sales | 10,904 | 9,904 | 10,129 | 9,467 | 10,153 | 11,446 | 12,317 | 12,474 | 12,618 | 78.5% |
| Service and lease sales | 2,248 | 2,318 | 2,433 | 2,324 | 2,580 | 2,742 | 3,003 | 3,268 | 3,463 | 21.5% |
Product and equipment salesService and lease sales
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Each year's figures come from the most recent 10-K that includes that year. A year is shown only where the parts add up to the revenue above. Fiscal years are labelled by the year they end in.First forecast against the result
Ecolab's adjusted EPS landed at or above the top of the range in 1 and inside it in 2 of the 3 years shown (FY2011 to FY2014).
- At or above the top of the range
- Inside the range
- Under the range
Each bar is the year's result against the top of its first forecast range, in per cent of the top. Hover a bar for the figures.
| Fiscal year | First forecast adjusted EPS | Result |
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| FY2011 | $2.47 to $2.53 | $2.54 |
| FY2012 | $2.95 to $3.05 | $2.98 |
| FY2014 | $4.10 to $4.20 | $4.18 |
- First forecast
- The full-year range the company gave with its fourth-quarter results for the year before, before any later change to it.
- Result
- The figure the company reported for that year with its next fourth-quarter results.
- Adjusted EPS
- The company's own measure, which leaves out items it names, so it differs from the EPS in the tables above.
- Years left out
- Where the forecast or the result could not be read with confidence. Each figure in the table links to the results release it comes from.
Cash flow
Follow the cash: free cash flow, which is operating cash flow less capital expenditure and share-based pay, for five years and after, in today's money.
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The figure a share at the top is what a discounted cash flow calls intrinsic value, worked out on your assumptions. Everything after year five is one sum: the sixth year's cash, growing at the long-run rate every year after, added up and brought back to today's money. Each year runs from the last twelve months as filed. Sales growth opens where Play it forward does: the company's own five-year rate, easing a third of the way each year toward the median of the 33 peers in Consumer Goods (2.2% a year); change a year and the years after it follow. Operating cash flow, capital expenditure and share-based pay open at the company's own median share of sales over its last five years, shown under each row. Share-based pay is taken off because operating cash flow adds back the shares paid to staff as if they cost nothing; set it to 0 to leave it in. Capital spending counts every capital line the company files in its cash flow, such as equipment it leases to customers, software, wells or property it develops, named under the row, while the Capital expenditure row in the table below stays the one line as filed; buying a business, securities or a finished property is not counted. The discount rate opens at 10%, about what US stocks have returned a year over the long run, so it is the return you give up by holding this company instead of the market; the growth after year five opens at 3%, a little under the US economy's long-run growth in dollars, because no company outgrows it for ever. Net debt is the debt and short-term borrowings less the cash on the latest balance sheet that shows the debt; the figure per share divides what is left by the diluted share count. These are your assumptions and your arithmetic, not an estimate of ours. The link carries them, so you can send them to someone.| FY2007 | FY2008 | FY2009 | FY2010 † | FY2011 † | FY2012 † | FY2013 † | FY2014 † | FY2015 | FY2016 † | FY2017 † | FY2018 † | FY2019 † | FY2020 | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 | TTM | |
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| Operating cash flow | 798 | 753 | 695 | 950 | 686 | 1,203 | 1,560 | 1,816 | 2,000 | 1,940 | 2,091 | 2,278 | 2,421 | 1,860 | 2,062 | 1,788 | 2,412 | 2,814 | 2,953 | 3,029 |
| Capital expenditure | 306 | 327 | 252 | 260 | 342 | 574 | 625 | 749 | 771 | 757 | 787 | 779 | 731 | 489 | 643 | 713 | 775 | 994 | 1,048 | 1,234 |
| Free cash flow | 491 | 426 | 442 | 690 | 344 | 628 | 935 | 1,067 | 1,229 | 1,183 | 1,304 | 1,499 | 1,689 | 1,371 | 1,419 | 1,076 | 1,637 | 1,819 | 1,904 | 1,795 |
| Free cash flow margin | 9.0% | 6.9% | 7.5% | 11.3% | 5.1% | 5.3% | 7.1% | 7.5% | 9.1% | 9.0% | 11.3% | 12.3% | 13.4% | 11.6% | 11.1% | 7.6% | 10.7% | 11.6% | 11.8% | 10.3% |
| Cash from investing | -664 | -581 | -299 | -304 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | -916 | -774 | -1,727 | -1,030 | -1,199 | -414 | -4,580 | -717 | -990 | -434 | -2,707 | -7,599 |
| Cash from financing | -482 | -236 | -398 | -462 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | -1,151 | -868 | -523 | -1,173 | -1,350 | -342 | 1,603 | -837 | -1,055 | -2,024 | -853 | 3,323 |
| Depreciation and amortisation | 292 | 335 | 334 | 348 | 396 | 714 | 807 | 863 | 852 | 851 | 685 | 729 | 775 | 813 | 843 | 938 | 924 | 936 | 977 | 1,076 |
| Share-based compensation | 37.9 | 33.6 | 37.3 | 29.2 | 39.9 | 65.8 | 69.6 | 71.1 | 78.2 | 85.7 | 85.5 | 88.0 | 84.0 | 82.1 | 89.5 | 87.8 | 95.1 | 135 | 137 | 143 |
| Buybacks | 371 | 337 | 68.8 | 349 | 690 | 210 | 308 | 429 | 755 | 740 | 600 | 562 | 354 | 146 | 107 | 518 | 13.7 | 986 | 784 | 1,081 |
| Dividends paid | 114 | 128 | 133 | 146 | 163 | 307 | 218 | 344 | 401 | 428 | 443 | 495 | 553 | 561 | 566 | 603 | 617 | 664 | 754 | 818 |
| Dividend per share | $0.47 | $0.53 | $0.57 | $0.64 | $0.72 | $0.83 | $0.96 | $1.16 | $1.34 | $1.42 | $1.52 | $1.69 | $1.85 | $1.89 | $1.95 | $2.06 | $2.16 | $2.36 | $2.68 | n/a |
| Diluted shares, weighted | 252m | 249m | 240m | 238m | 242m | 299m | 306m | 306m | 301m | 297m | 294m | 293m | 292m | 290m | 289m | 287m | 286m | 287m | 285m | 282m |
| Shares outstanding at period end | n/a | 236m | 237m | 232m | 292m | 295m | 301m | 300m | 296m | 292m | 289m | 288m | 288m | 286m | 287m | 284m | 285m | 283m | 282m | 280m |
| Filing | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | 8-K | 8-K | 8-K | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K |
Cash paid in the year, from the cash flow statement.
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The dividend per share is as declared. Diluted shares are the weighted average for the year; a falling count is the buybacks net of issuance. TTM sums the last four quarters; the share counts are the latest quarter's.Balance sheet
| FY2007 | FY2008 | FY2009 | FY2010 † | FY2011 † | FY2012 † | FY2013 † | FY2014 † | FY2015 | FY2016 † | FY2017 † | FY2018 † | FY2019 † | FY2020 | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 | TTM | |
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| Funded by | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Shareholders' equity | 1,943 | 1,572 | 2,001 | 2,129 | 5,667 | 6,077 | 7,344 | 7,316 | 6,910 | 6,901 | 7,584 | 8,003 | 8,685 | 6,166 | 7,224 | 7,236 | 8,045 | 8,757 | 9,771 | 10,424 |
| Non-controlling interest | n/a | 7.4 | 8.7 | 3.8 | 74.4 | 83.1 | 65.1 | 66.2 | 70.5 | 69.8 | 70.2 | 50.4 | 40.5 | 35.0 | 28.9 | 22.5 | 27.5 | 31.9 | 33.7 | 30.6 |
| Debt | n/a | 799 | 877 | 846 | 7,600 | 6,542 | 6,904 | 6,548 | 6,466 | 6,687 | 7,323 | 7,045 | 6,354 | 6,669 | 8,758 | 8,580 | 8,182 | 7,565 | 8,236 | 13,192 |
| Other liabilities | n/a | 2,379 | 2,135 | 1,894 | 4,844 | 4,870 | 5,323 | 5,497 | 5,196 | 4,672 | 4,986 | 4,976 | 5,790 | 5,255 | 5,195 | 5,625 | 5,593 | 6,034 | 6,656 | 7,461 |
| Total liabilities and equity | n/a | 4,757 | 5,021 | 4,872 | 18,185 | 17,572 | 19,636 | 19,427 | 18,642 | 18,330 | 19,962 | 20,074 | 20,869 | 18,126 | 21,206 | 21,464 | 21,847 | 22,388 | 24,696 | 31,108 |
| Owned | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Fixed assets | n/a | 1,135 | 1,176 | 1,148 | 2,295 | 2,409 | 2,882 | 3,051 | 3,228 | 3,365 | 3,707 | 3,087 | 3,228 | 3,125 | 3,288 | 3,293 | 3,475 | 3,752 | 4,277 | 4,595 |
| Goodwill | n/a | 1,268 | 1,414 | 1,329 | 5,855 | 5,920 | 6,863 | 6,717 | 6,491 | 6,383 | 5,467 | 5,394 | 5,569 | 6,007 | 8,064 | 8,013 | 8,148 | 7,907 | 9,227 | 12,688 |
| Intangible assets | n/a | 327 | 312 | 282 | 4,275 | 4,044 | 4,785 | 4,457 | 4,109 | 3,818 | 4,018 | 2,940 | 2,928 | 2,977 | 4,224 | 3,681 | 3,494 | 3,309 | 3,688 | 5,098 |
| Cash and equivalents | 137 | 66.7 | 73.6 | 242 | 1,844 | 1,158 | 339 | 210 | 92.8 | 327 | 211 | 63.9 | 119 | 1,260 | 360 | 599 | 920 | 1,257 | 646 | 722 |
| Receivables | n/a | 971 | 1,016 | 1,000 | 2,095 | 2,225 | 2,568 | 2,627 | 2,390 | 2,341 | 2,574 | 2,210 | 2,382 | 2,274 | 2,478 | 2,698 | 2,834 | 2,865 | 3,249 | 3,795 |
| Inventory | n/a | 467 | 493 | 448 | 1,070 | 1,088 | 1,322 | 1,467 | 1,388 | 1,319 | 1,446 | 1,104 | 1,082 | 1,285 | 1,492 | 1,793 | 1,497 | 1,465 | 1,490 | 1,765 |
| Other assets | n/a | 522 | 535 | 423 | 750 | 728 | 877 | 900 | 942 | 776 | 2,540 | 5,276 | 5,562 | 1,198 | 1,300 | 1,388 | 1,479 | 1,833 | 2,118 | 2,444 |
| Total assets | n/a | 4,757 | 5,021 | 4,872 | 18,185 | 17,572 | 19,636 | 19,427 | 18,642 | 18,330 | 19,962 | 20,074 | 20,869 | 18,126 | 21,206 | 21,464 | 21,847 | 22,388 | 24,696 | 31,108 |
| Filing | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | 8-K | 8-K | 8-K | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | 10-K | |
At the fiscal year end; the TTM column is the latest quarter end.
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Both totals are the company's own. Other liabilities is the filed total less the rows above it: payables, deferred revenue, taxes, borrowings the rows above do not carry and the rest; other assets is the same on the other side. Investments add the current and non-current lines as filed. Debt is the company's own stated total where it files one, otherwise its long-term debt with the current maturities, never parts added together. A row is left blank in a year where the lines shown overlap and the remainder would fall below nil.Compounded growth
| 10 years | 5 years | 3 years | TTM | |
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| Sales growth, compounded | 1.7% | 6.4% | 4.3% | 9.3% |
| Profit growth, compounded | 7.6% | n/a | 23.9% | 4.9% |
| Return on equity, average | 14.7% | 18.6% | 20.8% | 21.2% |
Yearly growth, compounded; TTM is the last four quarters against the four before.
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Return on equity is net income over shareholders' equity at each year end, averaged over the window (the TTM column is the latest year alone); equity is the parent's shareholders' equity as tagged in the 10-K. Arithmetic on filed numbers, nothing forecast.Questions
What was Ecolab's revenue in fiscal 2025?
Ecolab (ECL) reported revenue of $16.1 billion for fiscal 2025, the year ended 31 December 2025, up 2.2% on the year before.
How much did Ecolab earn in fiscal 2025?
Net income was $2.1 billion for fiscal 2025, and diluted earnings per share $7.28.
What is Ecolab's P/E ratio?
At the close of 6 November 2026, Ecolab traded at 40.9 times its earnings over the twelve months to 30 September 2026.
What is Ecolab's market cap?
The market cap of Ecolab was $84.3 billion at the close of 6 November 2026.
Does Ecolab pay a dividend?
Yes. Ecolab declared $2.92 a share in dividends over the four quarters to 30 September 2026.
Peers: Consumer Goods
| Company | Market cap | P/E | ROE | Op. margin | Sales growth TTM | Debt to equity | Div. yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Procter & Gamble Co. PG | $383.3 billion | 24.91 | 29.0% | 22.6% | 3.5% | 0.70 | 2.6% |
| Unilever plc UL * | $143.9 billion | 13.68 | 61.0% | 17.9% | -3.8% | 1.68 | 3.5% |
| Ecolab Inc. ECL | $84.3 billion | 40.91 | 20.0% | 16.7% | 9.3% | 1.27 | 1.0% |
| Colgate-Palmolive Co. CL | $76.7 billion | 37.86 | 713.2% | 14.8% | 5.9% | 26.79 | 2.2% |
| Haleon plc HLN * | $40.9 billion | 18.43 | 10.1% | 21.9% | -1.8% | 0.52 | 2.0% |
| Estee Lauder Companies Inc. EL | $39.9 billion | 109.01 | 9.1% | 6.7% | 5.8% | 1.80 | 1.3% |
| Kenvue Inc. KVUE | $37.1 billion | 21.94 | 16.6% | 17.4% | 3.5% | 0.81 | 4.3% |
| SharkNinja, Inc. SN | $31.4 billion | 37.41 | 26.7% | 15.6% | n/a | 0.22 | n/a |
| Church & Dwight Co. Inc. CHD | $25.8 billion | 33.64 | 17.3% | 18.0% | 1.7% | 0.49 | 1.1% |
| Somnigroup International Inc. SGI | $13.5 billion | 25.66 | 16.5% | 12.5% | 27.1% | 1.37 | 1.0% |
| Clorox Co. CLX | $12.1 billion | 17.97 | n/a | n/a | 6.3% | n/a | 5.0% |
| Stepan Co. SCL | $1.5 billion | 352.58 | 0.4% | 0.9% | 10.0% | 0.52 | 2.4% |
All 37 in Consumer Goods
| Company | Market cap | P/E | ROE | Op. margin | Sales growth TTM | Debt to equity | Div. yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Procter & Gamble Co. PG | $383.3 billion | 24.91 | 29.0% | 22.6% | 3.5% | 0.70 | 2.6% |
| Unilever plc UL * | $143.9 billion | 13.68 | 61.0% | 17.9% | -3.8% | 1.68 | 3.5% |
| Ecolab Inc. ECL | $84.3 billion | 40.91 | 20.0% | 16.7% | 9.3% | 1.27 | 1.0% |
| Colgate-Palmolive Co. CL | $76.7 billion | 37.86 | 713.2% | 14.8% | 5.9% | 26.79 | 2.2% |
| Haleon plc HLN * | $40.9 billion | 18.43 | 10.1% | 21.9% | -1.8% | 0.52 | 2.0% |
| Estee Lauder Companies Inc. EL | $39.9 billion | 109.01 | 9.1% | 6.7% | 5.8% | 1.80 | 1.3% |
| Kenvue Inc. KVUE | $37.1 billion | 21.94 | 16.6% | 17.4% | 3.5% | 0.81 | 4.3% |
| SharkNinja, Inc. SN | $31.4 billion | 37.41 | 26.7% | 15.6% | n/a | 0.22 | n/a |
| Church & Dwight Co. Inc. CHD | $25.8 billion | 33.64 | 17.3% | 18.0% | 1.7% | 0.49 | 1.1% |
| Somnigroup International Inc. SGI | $13.5 billion | 25.66 | 16.5% | 12.5% | 27.1% | 1.37 | 1.0% |
| Clorox Co. CLX | $12.1 billion | 17.97 | n/a | n/a | 6.3% | n/a | 5.0% |
| A. O. Smith Corp. AOS | $8.8 billion | 17.97 | 27.1% | 17.5% | -0.7% | 0.37 | 2.2% |
| e.l.f. Beauty, Inc. ELF | $6.9 billion | 80.04 | 7.1% | 8.9% | 39.9% | 0.67 | n/a |
| Interparfums Inc. IPAR | $4.3 billion | 25.54 | 19.4% | 17.9% | 2.6% | 0.22 | 2.4% |
| Coty Inc. COTY | $3.6 billion | n/a | -18.1% | -1.7% | -0.2% | 0.88 | n/a |
| Harley-Davidson, Inc. HOG | $3.3 billion | n/a | -4.4% | -5.6% | -14.6% | 0.77 | 2.3% |
| Imax Corp. IMAX | $2.6 billion | 20.63 | 27.3% | 26.8% | 28.1% | 0.50 | n/a |
| Whirlpool Corp. WHR | $2.0 billion | n/a | -3.3% | 2.9% | -6.4% | 1.84 | 17.4% |
| Stepan Co. SCL | $1.5 billion | 352.58 | 0.4% | 0.9% | 10.0% | 0.52 | 2.4% |
| MasterBrand, Inc. MBC | $1.4 billion | n/a | -6.3% | -2.0% | 12.9% | 0.63 | n/a |
| Edgewell Personal Care Co. EPC | $1.3 billion | n/a | -6.4% | -0.6% | -7.0% | 0.88 | 2.1% |
| La-Z-Boy Inc. LZB | $1.3 billion | 16.11 | 8.0% | 5.0% | 0.2% | 0.00 | 2.9% |
| Apogee Enterprises, Inc. APOG | $957 million | 14.50 | 12.8% | 7.2% | 3.0% | 0.64 | 2.3% |
| Helen of Troy Ltd. HELE | $872 million | n/a | -11.6% | 1.3% | 0.3% | 0.79 | n/a |
| Compass Diversified Holdings CODI | $852 million | n/a | 0.1% | 6.0% | -8.2% | 3.23 | 4.4% |
| Eastman Kodak Co. KODK | $785 million | n/a | -13.1% | 2.5% | 9.3% | 0.17 | n/a |
| Fox Factory Holding Corp. FOXF | $748 million | n/a | -72.4% | -26.7% | -2.2% | 0.71 | n/a |
| Movado Group Inc. MOV | $693 million | 17.24 | 8.2% | 6.9% | 5.2% | 0.00 | 4.7% |
| Ethan Allen Interiors Inc. ETD | $506 million | 12.86 | 8.5% | 7.8% | -5.7% | 0.00 | 9.0% |
| Fossil Group, Inc. FOSL | $461 million | n/a | -77.7% | -0.6% | -9.1% | 2.26 | n/a |
| Hamilton Beach Brands Holding Co. HBB | $432 million | 7.32 | 26.9% | 12.6% | 1.7% | 0.11 | 1.5% |
| Flexsteel Industries Inc. FLXS | $296 million | 11.59 | 23.6% | 8.7% | 3.4% | 0.00 | 1.3% |
| Traeger, Inc. COOK | $189 million | n/a | -36.7% | -7.9% | -25.5% | 2.86 | n/a |
| Bassett Furniture Industries Inc. BSET | $188 million | 27.46 | 4.1% | 2.5% | 1.4% | 0.00 | 3.7% |
| GoPro, Inc. GPRO | $168 million | n/a | n/a | -21.2% | -23.9% | n/a | n/a |
| Hooker Furnishings Corp. HOFT | $156 million | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0.00 | 4.0% |
| LiveWire Group, Inc. LVWR | $112 million | n/a | n/a | -212.1% | 33.4% | n/a | n/a |
4 companies share its SEC industry code (Soap, Detergents, Cleang Preparations, Perfumes, Cosmetics); the rest are the names nearest in size in its wider industry, Consumer Goods, one of the Fama-French 48 industries, a published grouping of SEC industry codes.
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By market capitalisation; a click on a heading sorts by it, largest first, and a second click turns it round. Each figure is the same arithmetic as the ratio box above, on each company's own filings and latest close; a name marked * is a foreign company that files once a year, on its latest fiscal year.The public record on ECL
| Dividends | $2.92 a share over the four quarters to 30 September 2026, a 0.97% yield |
| Filings | 22 in twelve months: 11 current reports (8-K), about 6 results of operations; 3 officer or director change; 1 other events; 1 shareholder vote; 1 material agreement |
| Planned insider sales | 15 Form 144 notices in twelve months, $29.9 million; latest 18 August 2026 |
| Options tape | put/call 0.5 by open interest at the 6 November 2026 close; the straddle prices a 4.3% move to 20 November 2026 |
| 13F holders | 1,722 funds reported a position for the quarter to 30 June 2026; largest BlackRock, Inc. |
| Insider trading | 15 sales and 7 purchases on Form 4 in twelve months |
| Congress | 0 House trades disclosed in six months |
| Short interest | 4.9 million shares short, 4.05 days to cover at 15 October 2026 |
| Documents | the 10-K, the 10-Qs, the proxy and 6 earnings press releases, each linked |
Filings
| Filing | Period | Filed | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-Q | 30 September 2026 | 29 October 2026 | EDGAR |
| 10-Q | 30 June 2026 | 6 August 2026 | EDGAR |
| 10-Q | 31 March 2026 | 7 May 2026 | EDGAR |
| 10-K | 31 December 2025 | 23 February 2026 | EDGAR |
| 10-Q | 30 September 2025 | 30 October 2025 | EDGAR |
| 10-Q | 30 June 2025 | 7 August 2025 | EDGAR |
| 10-Q | 31 March 2025 | 8 May 2025 | EDGAR |
| 10-K | 31 December 2024 | 21 February 2025 | EDGAR |
| 10-Q | 30 September 2024 | 31 October 2024 | EDGAR |
| 10-Q | 30 June 2024 | 2 August 2024 | EDGAR |
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