ECL

Ecolab Inc.
NYSEUSDEQUITY Basic Materials DELAYED
Last price
280.82
▲ 3.75 (1.35%)
MARKET · —

Price

1D — H — L — Range — Vol —
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Open
277.09
Prev close
277.07
Day high
282.44
Day low
275.80
Volume
1.18M
Market cap
$78.72B
P/E (TTM)
37.69
52W range
243.15 – 309.27

Day trading desk

Current session · delayed
Gap from prior close
+0.01%
Prior close 277.07
VWAP
280.68
+0.05% from price
Relative volume
2.11×
Unusually busy
Session range
2.41%
275.80 – 282.44
Position in range
76%
Near session high
ATR (14D)
5.35
1.91% of price
Prior day high
279.57
PDH
Prior day low
271.00
PDL
Bid / ask spread
—
Quote not published
Session volume
2.69M
Avg 1.27M

VWAP and the session figures are computed from the delayed intraday series on this page, so they lag the live tape and will not match a broker's real-time VWAP exactly. Turn on Prior day H/L/C, Opening range and Volume profile in the chart's Studies menu to see these levels drawn on price.

Trailing performance

Price return · vs SPY
Returnvs SPY
1W
+1.06% -0.9%
1M
+0.55% -0.6%
3M
+2.44% -2.1%
6M
+7.08% -11.1%
YTD
+6.97% -7.3%
1Y
+1.53% -14.9%
3Y
+65.77% -16.5%
5Y
— —

Price return only. Dividends are not reinvested, so total return on a dividend payer will be higher than shown.

Unusual options activity

Account required
Nothing crossed the thresholds in the expiries we scanned.
That is the normal state — most contracts trade well inside their existing open interest.
Free account required

Contracts trading at or above their open interest, ranked by notional and where the print landed.

Free account

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Options chains and analytics, valuation ratios, insider filings, analyst targets and ownership. No card, no trial, nothing to cancel.

Insider net activity

6m · Form 4 rollup
Net shares
+10.16K
Net buying
Buy transactions
22
46.95K shares
Sell transactions
5
36.79K shares
Net transactions
+27
Buys less sells
Sell : buy shares
0.8 : 1
Mixed
Insider-held shares
431.71K
Total on file
Bought 46.95KSold 36.79K

Insider transactions

Account required
DateInsiderAction SharesValueHeld
Sep 11, 26
GREEN ERIC MARK
Director
BUY 3.69K $1.02M Direct
Aug 18, 26
BECK CHRISTOPHE
Chief Executive Officer
SELL 17.86K $5.00M Direct
Aug 11, 26
COOK GREGORY B
Officer
SELL 4.57K $1.30M Direct
Aug 3, 26
BRADWAY JENNIFER J
Officer
— 6.46K — Direct
Jul 30, 26
KIRKLAND SCOTT D.
Chief Financial Officer
SELL 3.36K $929.75K Direct
Jul 30, 26
KIRKLAND SCOTT D.
Chief Financial Officer
CONVERSION 3.97K $467.62K Direct
Jun 30, 26
GREEN ERIC MARK
Director
STOCK 273 $40.00K Direct
Jun 30, 26
BALLARD SHARI L
Director
STOCK 260 $36.25K Direct
Jun 30, 26
MCKIBBEN TRACY B.
Director
STOCK 130 $0 Direct
Jun 30, 26
ZILLMER JOHN J
Director
STOCK 130 $0 Direct
Jun 30, 26
LARSON MICHAEL J
Director
STOCK 130 $0 Direct
Jun 30, 26
MACLENNAN DAVID W
Director
STOCK 176 $12.81K Direct
Jun 30, 26
VAUTRINOT SUZANNE M.
Director
STOCK 130 $0 Direct
Jun 30, 26
WHALEN JULIE PATENAUDE
Director
STOCK 130 $0 Direct
What this is, and what it is not

These are SEC Form 4 filings — officers, directors and 10% owners reporting their own trades in the company's stock. Filing is due within two business days of the transaction, so this lags reality by days, and the provider adds its own lag on top.

A sale is not automatically bearish. Executives sell on scheduled 10b5-1 plans, to cover tax on vesting equity, and to diversify. Purchases with cash are generally the more informative signal, and they are far rarer.

This does not include congressional or senate trading. That comes from STOCK Act disclosures filed with the Senate eFD system and the House Clerk, which this data source does not carry.

Free account required

Officer and director trades in their own stock, straight from Form 4 filings.

Insider holders

10 reporting
NameRelationShares heldLatest
BECK CHRISTOPHE
Chief Executive Officer 74.69K Sale
BROWN DARRELL R
Officer 32.73K Sale
GATES WILLIAM HENRY III
Beneficial Owner of more than 10% of a Class of Security — Sale
HIGGINS ARTHUR J
Director 26.86K Stock Award(Grant)
KIRKLAND SCOTT D.
Chief Financial Officer 19.00K Sale
LARSON MICHAEL J
Director 19.17K Stock Award(Grant)
MACLENNAN DAVID W
Director 29.64K Stock Award(Grant)
MARSH LAURIE M
Officer 25.81K Stock Award(Grant)
REICH VICTORIA J
Director 25.38K Stock Award(Grant)
ZILLMER JOHN J
Director 49.37K Stock Award(Grant)

Fundamentals

TTM · reported
Market cap$78.72B
Enterprise value$87.53B
Revenue (TTM)$16.84B
Gross profit$7.45B
EBITDA$4.14B
Net income$2.12B
EPS (TTM)$7.45
Free cash flow$1.47B
Total cash$5.14B
Total debt$13.92B
Book value / share$35.87
Shares outstanding280.33M
Float279.75M
Short % of float2.14%
Dividend yield1.05%
Beta (5Y)0.88

Valuation & profitability ratios

Account required
Trailing P/E37.69
Forward P/E29.83
PEG ratio2.50
Price / sales—
Price / book7.83
EV / revenue5.20
EV / EBITDA21.17
Gross margin44.21%
Operating margin18.52%
Profit margin12.57%
Return on equity21.96%
Return on assets7.23%
Debt / equity138.02
Current ratio1.84
Free account required

Fourteen ratios including P/E, PEG, EV/EBITDA, margins and return on equity.

Financial statements

As reported · 4 years · 5 quarters
Blank means not reported, not zero
Line item2025202420232022YoY
Total revenue $16.08B$15.74B$15.32B$14.19B +2.2%
Operating revenue $16.08B$15.74B$15.32B$14.19B +2.2%
Cost of revenue $8.93B$8.90B$9.15B$8.83B +0.3%
Gross profit $7.15B$6.84B$6.17B$5.36B +4.5%
Selling, general & admin $4.26B$4.23B$4.06B$3.65B +0.7%
Total operating expense $4.26B$4.23B$4.06B$3.65B +0.7%
Operating income $2.89B$2.61B$2.10B$1.70B +10.7%
Net interest income -$241.10M-$282.50M-$296.70M-$243.60M +14.7%
Pre-tax income $2.55B$2.57B$1.76B$1.34B -0.9%
Tax provision $454.60M$439.30M$362.50M$234.50M +3.5%
Net income $2.08B$2.11B$1.37B$1.09B -1.7%
Net income to common $2.08B$2.11B$1.37B$1.09B -1.7%
Basic EPS 7.337.434.823.83 -1.3%
Diluted EPS 7.287.374.793.81 -1.2%
EBIT $2.85B$2.91B$2.10B$1.60B -2.0%
EBITDA $3.83B$3.85B$3.03B$2.53B -0.4%
Basic shares 283.30M284.30M285.00M285.20M -0.4%
Diluted shares 285.20M286.60M286.50M286.60M -0.5%

Options analytics

Account required
Put / call volume
34.87
Put-heavy session
Put / call open interest
0.35
Positioning, not flow
Max pain
270.00
-3.9% from spot
ATM implied vol
32.3%
Nearest strike to spot
Skew (10% OTM)
-5.9%
Calls bid over puts
Call volume
39
Contracts, this expiry
Put volume
1.36K
Contracts, this expiry
Heaviest call OI
300.00
3.69K contracts
Heaviest put OI
270.00
1.01K contracts

Max pain is the strike at which the largest dollar value of open contracts expires worthless. It describes current positioning; it is not a forecast and it moves as open interest changes.

Free account required

Put/call ratios, max pain, implied volatility skew and where open interest is concentrated.

Earnings

History & consensus estimates
Reported vs expected · EPS
QuarterEst.ActualSurprise
Jun 2026 2.082.09 +0.5%
Mar 2026 1.701.70 +0.2%
Dec 2025 2.072.08 +0.6%
Sep 2025 2.072.07 -0.1%
Forward consensus
PeriodEPSAnalystsRevenueGrowth
Current quarter 2.17 18 $4.70B +12.9%
Next quarter 2.22 18 $4.75B +13.2%
Current year 8.16 21 $17.92B +11.5%
Next year 9.41 21 $19.35B +8.0%

Analyst targets & ownership

Account required
Mean target$325.05
High target$360.00
Low target$295.00
Implied upside15.75%
Analyst count21
ConsensusBUY
Strong buy / Buy5 / 15
Hold4
Sell / Strong sell0 / 0
Held by insiders0.15%
Held by institutions94.08%
Institutions holding2.30K
Free account required

Price targets, consensus spread, insider and institutional ownership.

Moving averages & technicals

Computed from 2Y daily closes
SMA 10
276.71
+1.48% from price
SMA 20
274.93
+2.14% from price
SMA 50
279.26
+0.56% from price
SMA 100
272.52
+3.04% from price
SMA 200
274.02
+2.48% from price
EMA 12
276.34
+1.62% from price
EMA 26
276.70
+1.49% from price
EMA 50
276.58
+1.53% from price
RSI (14)
56.2
Neutral
MACD (12,26,9)
-0.36
Hist 0.52
ATR (14)
5.35
1.91% of price
Realised vol 30D
16.2%
Annualised
Bollinger upper
281.31
20, 2σ
Bollinger lower
268.56
20, 2σ
50 / 200 cross
Golden
279.26 vs 274.02
Trend bias
Above 200
+2.48%

Options chain

Account required
Expiry
Spot 280.82
Calls
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
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Puts
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
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Free account required

Every listed expiry, both sides of the book, with volume, open interest and implied volatility.

Risk profile

Daily returns · 1Y window
Beta vs SPY
0.49
Less volatile than market
Correlation to SPY
0.29
Largely independent
Realised vol 30D
16.2%
Annualised
Market vol 1Y
13.0%
SPY, annualised
Max drawdown 1Y
-20.3%
Peak to trough
Max drawdown 5Y
-44.3%
Peak to trough
ATR 14
5.35
1.91% of price
Beta (reported)
0.88
5Y monthly, from filing

Short interest

Semi-monthly exchange report · lags by ~2 weeks
Shares short
5.26M
Prior 3.48M
Change vs prior
+51.2%
Shorts adding
% of float
2.14%
Normal
% of shares out
1.88%
Against total outstanding
Days to cover
3.6
Liquid
Float
279.75M
Freely tradeable shares

Exchanges publish short interest twice a month with a settlement lag, so this is roughly two weeks behind. Days to cover divides shares short by average daily volume — it estimates how long covering would take, not whether it will happen.

Rating changes

351 on file
DateFirm ActionFromTo
Oct 5, 26 UBS MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Jul 30, 26 Wells Fargo MAINTAINED Equal-Weight Equal-Weight
Jul 29, 26 Mizuho MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
Jul 29, 26 BMO Capital MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
Jul 29, 26 JP Morgan MAINTAINED Overweight Overweight
Jul 17, 26 Oppenheimer UPGRADE Perform Outperform
Jul 9, 26 Deutsche Bank MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Jul 7, 26 RBC Capital MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
Jun 24, 26 Citigroup MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Jun 10, 26 Wells Fargo MAINTAINED Equal-Weight Equal-Weight
May 27, 26 UBS UPGRADE Neutral Buy
May 27, 26 RBC Capital MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform

Dividends & splits

Declared · from the issuer
Forward rate$2.92 / yr
Forward yield1.05%
5-year avg yield1.04%
Payout ratio38.12%
Ex-dividend dateSep 15, 2026
Next pay dateOct 15, 2026
Last split2:1
Split dateJun 9, 2003

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