Ecolab Inc. (ECL) Stock

About Ecolab Inc.

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.

Ecolab Inc. is led by CEO Christophe Beck, employs 48,000 people, headquartered in Saint Paul, US, publicly traded since 1957.

Ecolab Inc. (ECL) stock trades at $283.70 with a market capitalization of $79.84B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 38.33, price-to-book of 7.98, price-to-sales of 4.85. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $243.15 and $309.27, and currently trades 8.3% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 1.00%.

On profitability, Ecolab Inc. generates a return on equity (ROE) of 22.43% — well above the market average, a sign of a high-quality business, return on capital employed of 29.71%, an operating margin of 18.11%, a net profit margin of 12.80%.

In its most recent fiscal year, Ecolab Inc. reported annual revenue of $16.1B, net profit of $2.1B, revenue has compounded at 6.4% a year over the last five years.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.93, a current ratio of 0.99, total assets of $24.7B, $646.0M in cash and equivalents.

ECL has an average daily trading volume of 1,614,061 shares, a beta of 0.91.

Official website: www.ecolab.com