ECL
Ecolab IncNYSE
Basic Materials • Specialty Chemicals
Factor tilt: Large-Cap Defensive
$300.68-1.68%
Close Nov 6, 2026
- Market cap
- $84.82B
- 1 month
- +6.7%
- 3 months
- +5.7%
- 1 year
- +16.1%
- 52-week range
- $245.73$315.01
- Dividend, last 12 mo
- $2.92 · 0.97% yield
- Last ex-date
- Sep 15, 2026 · $0.73
- Dividend growth
- 15+ years in a row
- Short interest
- 1.7% of float4.9M shares · settled Oct 15, 2026 · -9.6% since Sep 30, 2026 · FINRA
Fundamentals · trailing 12 months to Sep 30, 2026
- Revenue
- $17.37B
- Net income
- $2.08B
- Free cash flow
- $1.8B
- Book value
- $10.42B
- Total debt
- $13.77B
- P/E
- 40.7×
- Price / sales
- 4.9×
- Price / book
- 8.1×
- FCF yield
- +2.1%
- Net margin
- +12.0%
EODHD (TTM) · as of Nov 6, 2026
End-of-day close from stored market data, not a live quote.
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.
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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.
- Website
- ecolab.com
- Headquarters
- Saint Paul, MN, United States
- Employees
- 48,000
- Listed
- Jan 5, 1988
- Fiscal year ends
- December
Company profile from EODHD, stored Oct 31, 2026.
Quarterly results
The last 8 fiscal quarters as reported (EODHD). Year over year compares the same quarter a year earlier.
| Quarter | Revenue | YoY | Gross margin | Op. income | Net income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026filed Oct 29, 2026 | $4.7B | +12.7% | 44.1% | $810.5M | $551.3M |
| Jun 2026filed Aug 6, 2026 | $4.4B | +9.7% | 44.1% | $757.9M | $534.9M |
| Mar 2026filed May 7, 2026 | $4.1B | +10.0% | 43.6% | $622.0M | $432.6M |
| Dec 2025filed Feb 23, 2026 | $4.2B | +4.8% | 44.0% | $785.9M | $563.9M |
| Sep 2025filed Oct 30, 2025 | $4.2B | +4.2% | 44.8% | $760.2M | $585.0M |
| Jun 2025filed Aug 7, 2025 | $4.0B | +1.0% | 44.8% | $710.1M | $524.2M |
| Mar 2025filed May 8, 2025 | $3.7B | -1.5% | 44.3% | $586.8M | $402.5M |
| Dec 2024filed Feb 21, 2025 | $4.0B | +1.7% | 43.4% | $685.9M | $472.9M |
Fiscal years · last 6
| Fiscal year | Revenue | YoY | Gross margin | Op. income | Net income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2025filed Feb 23, 2026 | $16.1B | +2.2% | 44.5% | $2.9B | $2.1B |
| Dec 2024filed Feb 21, 2025 | $15.7B | +2.7% | 43.5% | $2.6B | $2.1B |
| Dec 2023filed Feb 23, 2024 | $15.3B | +8.0% | 40.3% | $2.2B | $1.4B |
| Dec 2022filed Feb 24, 2023 | $14.2B | +11.4% | 38.2% | $1.6B | $1.1B |
| Dec 2021filed Feb 25, 2022 | $12.7B | +8.0% | 41.0% | $1.7B | $1.1B |
| Dec 2020filed Feb 26, 2021 | $11.8B | -6.1% | 41.5% | $1.7B | -$1.2B |
Short-interest history
FINRA reports open short positions for a settlement date. The publication date is later. These are reported positions, with a separate date for each observation.
Compare the reported short exposure around the dates you bought, sold or watched ECL. A long position benefits from price rises; a short position benefits from falls. A change in these counts does not predict either move.
Settlement Oct 15, 2026
4,850,156 shares short
-517,836 shares (-9.6%) vs Sep 30, 2026
1.7% of the stored float. Published Oct 26, 2026.
Settlement Sep 30, 2026
5,367,992 shares short
+108,617 shares (+2.1%) vs Sep 15, 2026
1.9% of the stored float. Published Oct 9, 2026.
Settlement Sep 15, 2026
5,259,375 shares short
+525,296 shares (+11.1%) vs Aug 31, 2026
Share of float unavailable. Published Sep 24, 2026.
Settlement Aug 31, 2026
4,734,079 shares short
+1,256,364 shares (+36.1%) vs Aug 14, 2026
1.7% of the stored float. Published Sep 10, 2026.
Settlement Aug 14, 2026
3,477,715 shares short
+380,940 shares (+12.3%) vs Jul 31, 2026
1.2% of the stored float. Published Aug 25, 2026.
Settlement Jul 31, 2026
3,096,775 shares short
-217,960 shares (-6.6%) vs Jul 15, 2026
1.1% of the stored float. Published Aug 11, 2026.
Change = this settlement’s shares short − the previous recorded settlement’s shares short; percentage change divides by that earlier count. A zero earlier count has no percentage change. Split-spanning counts are left uncompared. Float percentages use the stored settlement observation, not today’s float.
Source: stored FINRA equity short-interest records, up to six settlements from the last 240 days. FINRA data and reporting dates · How to read short interest
Dividends and stock splits
See the recorded cash amounts and dates behind ECL’s income, and the splits that change its share count. Dates below are stored event records, not confirmation of a payment to your account.
Cash-dividend records
USD 0.73 per share
Ex-dividend date: Sep 15, 2026
Recorded pay date: Oct 15, 2026 (past date)
Cash dividend · Polygon event record
USD 0.73 per share
Ex-dividend date: Jun 16, 2026
Recorded pay date: Jul 15, 2026 (past date)
Cash dividend · Polygon event record
USD 0.73 per share
Ex-dividend date: Mar 17, 2026
Recorded pay date: Apr 15, 2026 (past date)
Cash dividend · Polygon event record
USD 0.73 per share
Ex-dividend date: Dec 16, 2025
Recorded pay date: Jan 15, 2026 (past date)
Cash dividend · Polygon event record
USD 0.65 per share
Ex-dividend date: Sep 16, 2025
Recorded pay date: Oct 15, 2025 (past date)
Cash dividend · Polygon event record
USD 0.65 per share
Ex-dividend date: Jun 17, 2025
Recorded pay date: Jul 15, 2025 (past date)
Cash dividend · Polygon event record
Up to six Polygon cash-dividend events, including recorded ex-dates within the next 120 days. Amounts retain their recorded currency and decimal precision. Historical amounts are not restated to a common split basis, annualized, or converted to dollars.
For a long holding, compare the ex-date with when you held the shares and check the pay date against your broker’s cash history. Owning the stock today does not establish past entitlement. For a short holding, a dividend can create a payment obligation to the share lender.
Ex-dates and special dividend rules · Short-sale dividend obligations · Dividend data definitions
Split history
2 for 1 · forward split
Effective Jun 9, 2003
Each 1 pre-split share becomes 2 post-split shares.
Source: EODHD
2 for 1 · forward split
Effective Jan 16, 1998
Each 1 pre-split share becomes 2 post-split shares.
Source: EODHD
2 for 1 · forward split
Effective Jan 19, 1994
Each 1 pre-split share becomes 2 post-split shares.
Source: EODHD
Up to six stored split dates through Nov 7, 2026. Equivalent vendor ratios are combined; conflicting ratios are left out. This history may be incomplete.
A split changes the share count and per-share price basis; it does not by itself add investment value. Put your holding’s earlier and later share counts on the same basis before comparing them. This applies to both long shares and shares owed on a short position.
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Holder IQ: MEDIUM
158 smart-money holders: institutions with a high Holder IQ
Q2 2026, filed Nov 5, 2026
Smart-money 13F trend: accumulating (light)
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Sentiment: neutral
Last trade: buy 54 days ago
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Stored recent-activity label: neutral. This context label is separate from the scored insider signal read.
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The current context rule reads at most 50 nonduplicate issuer/share-class records filed in the last 90 days. It counts a bullish direction or purchase code P toward bullish, and a bearish direction or sale code S toward bearish. A side must exceed the opposite count by more than two to set its label; otherwise nonzero directional counts produce neutral. Calculation unavailable for this saved label: its counts, exact records, as-of time and rule version are not supplied here. Do not substitute the separate scored read’s different window or denominator.
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Stored SEC Forms 3/4/5 insider-signal records, ordered by filing date with amendment duplicates excluded. Filing date is not transaction date. The last-trade line locates recent reported activity; it does not date or reconstruct the complete count.
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What happened
Stored recent-activity label: neutral. This context label is separate from the scored insider signal read.
Why it can matter
A count of reported activity describes a sample, not purchase conviction, an insider’s intent or a future price move. Neutral is not an all-clear, and absent direction is not neutral evidence.
How we got this
The current context rule reads at most 50 nonduplicate issuer/share-class records filed in the last 90 days. It counts a bullish direction or purchase code P toward bullish, and a bearish direction or sale code S toward bearish. A side must exceed the opposite count by more than two to set its label; otherwise nonzero directional counts produce neutral. Calculation unavailable for this saved label: its counts, exact records, as-of time and rule version are not supplied here. Do not substitute the separate scored read’s different window or denominator.
Where the data comes from
Stored SEC Forms 3/4/5 insider-signal records, ordered by filing date with amendment duplicates excluded. Filing date is not transaction date. The last-trade line locates recent reported activity; it does not date or reconstruct the complete count.
Largest 13-F holders · Q2 2026
1,723 filers reported a long position in ECL for Q2 2026. 13-F holdings are filed up to 45 days after the quarter ends.
The top 10 hold
43.7%
of the 225.4M shares 13-F filers reported
Moves vs Q1 2026
8 added1 trimmed
1 unchanged
Net shares held
+4.2%
across the 10 holders with a comparable Q1 2026 book
| Rank | Holder | Value | Shares | Shares vs Q1 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BlackRock, Inc. | $6.4B · 23.1M shares | 23.1M | +1.1% |
| 2 | VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC | $4.6B · 16.5M shares | 16.5M | +0.1% |
| 3 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO | $4.1B · 14.6M shares | 14.6M | +25.4% |
| 4 | STATE STREET CORP | $3.3B · 11.8M shares | 11.8M | +4.9% |
| 5 | MORGAN STANLEY | $2.2B · 7.8M shares | 7.8M | +0.5% |
| 6 | VANGUARD PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT LLC | $1.8B · 6.3M shares | 6.3M | -0.3% |
| 7 | GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC | $1.7B · 6M shares | 6M | +0.1% |
| 8 | GATES FOUNDATION TRUST | $1.5B · 5.2M shares | 5.2M | Unchanged |
| 9 | UBS AM, a distinct business unit of UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AME | $1B · 3.6M shares | 3.6M | +1.5% |
| 10 | ROYAL BANK OF CANADA | $1B · 3.6M shares | 3.6M | +3.3% |
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Holders of more than 5% of ECL file with the SEC within days. A 13D holder may seek to influence the company; a 13G holder is passive. Each holder’s latest filing from the last three years.
| Filed | Holder | % of class |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 2026 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO13G · passive | 5.1% |
| Apr 29, 2026 | VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC13G · passive | 6.72% |
| Mar 26, 2026 | VANGUARD GROUP INC13G · passive · amended | 0%under 5% |
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