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Ecolab Inc.
1W: +1.1% 1M: +3.4% 3M: +2.1% YTD: +10.0% 1Y: +5.4% 3Y: +84.4% 5Y: +38.6%
$293.38
+4.49 (+1.55%)
 
Weekly Expected Move ±2.2%
$276 $282 $289 $295 $301
NYSE · Basic Materials · Chemicals - Specialty · Tech Score Strong Buy · Power 76 · $81.0B mcap · 251M float · 0.547% daily turnover · Short 38% of daily vol
Credit Risk of going bust: lower than 88% of companies Debt: 14.5% of company value Bonds: $393.5M held by 296 funds, 52 bp over Treasuries → details ▾
Of US companies ranked in the safest four tenths, about 1 in 3,500 filed for bankruptcy within a year (2020-2025).
If the stock fell to about $2.60 (down 99.1%), Ecolab Inc. would be worth roughly what it owes.
Total debt $13.75B against a stock market value of $81.00B.
Distance to default 12.58 (Merton model): prices to 2026-10-26, balance sheet 2026-06-30, debt counted $7.22B (short-term plus half of long-term), stock volatility 21.8%; Altman Z 4.16. A ranking and a back-test, not a forecast.
Bond figures are fund-reported marks (SEC N-PORT) as of Jul 2026. How these are computed.
Smart Money Score
Bullish 100
Insider+$3.7M
Congress3 trades
ETF Holdings—
Key Statistics
Market Cap$81.0B
52W Range243.15-309.27
Volume1,359,496
Avg Volume1,370,587
Beta0.88
Dividend$2.92
Analyst Ratings
29 Buy 7 Hold 1 Sell
Consensus Buy
Company Info
CEOChristophe Beck
Employees48,000
SectorBasic Materials
IndustryChemicals - Specialty
IPO Date1973-02-21
Websiteecolab.com
1 Ecolab Place
Saint Paul, MN 55102-2233
US
800 232 6522
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.

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