ECL — Ecolab Inc

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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, chem… Read full Trend Edge analysis →

Trend Edge Proprietary Indicators

Key Metrics

Current Price$262.58
Market Cap$70.41B
Float280.8M
Shares Outstanding281.4M
P/E (Forward)29.15
P/E (TTM)33.90
Price/Sales (TTM)4.25
vs. Analyst Target+20.3% to analyst PT
Profit Margin12.80%
Operating Margin (TTM)16.93%
Revenue (TTM)$16.45B
Earnings Growth (YoY)7.80%
Dividend Rate2.9%
Analyst Target Price$315.95 (27 analysts)

Financial History

Annual Revenue & Earnings History

YearRevenueNet IncomeGross ProfitEBITDA
2020 $11.79B -$1.21B $4.90B $2.22B
2021 $12.73B $1.13B $5.22B $2.47B
2022 $14.19B $1.09B $5.42B $2.55B
2023 $15.32B $1.37B $6.18B $3.03B
2024 $15.74B $2.11B $6.84B $3.85B
2025 $16.08B $2.08B $7.16B $3.46B

Recent Quarterly Revenue & Net Income

QuarterRevenueNet Income
Jun 2025 $4.03B $524M
Sep 2025 $4.17B $585M
Dec 2025 $4.20B $564M
Mar 2026 $4.07B $433M

Ownership & Float

Insider Ownership0.2%
Institutional Ownership93.5%
Short Float1.0%
% of All Funds Holding19.31%
Number of Funds Holding1,587

Current Moving Averages

Trend Edge tracks near-term, medium-term, cyclical, and secular moving averages across weekly and monthly timeframes to identify trend structure at every horizon.

TimeframeSMAValueTrend Context
Weekly10-Week SMA$262.05Near-term / short-term trend
Weekly40-Week SMA$270.99Medium-term trend
Weekly80-Week SMA$263.15Cyclical trend (business cycle)
Weekly200-Week SMA$220.73Secular trend (multi-year)
Monthly10-Month SMA$272.45Near-term monthly trend
Monthly20-Month SMA$263.72Medium-term monthly trend
Monthly40-Month SMA$232.56Secular monthly trend

Volume Shelves — Support & Resistance

Trend Edge identifies volume shelves: price zones where historically elevated trading volume creates structural support or resistance. A volume shelf forms when a disproportionate share of cumulative volume was transacted at a specific price level, making it a high-conviction anchor for future price reactions.

Price LevelTypeVolume RatioAge
$304.00 resistance 1.34x 1 months ago
$248.00 support 1.16x 14 months ago
$235.00 support 1.05x 15 months ago

Historical Earnings Reactions (121 events)

TimeframeAvg ReturnMedianWin RateBestWorst
Gap -0.15% 0.00% 47.93% 2.40% -6.27%
1 Day 0.19% 0.20% 52.89% 12.66% -8.48%
1 Week 0.75% 0.41% 53.72% 23.99% -12.70%
2 Weeks 1.04% 0.92% 57.02% 28.01% -12.05%
1 Month 0.95% 0.97% 54.17% 22.99% -31.68%

Next earnings: July 17, 2026 (50 days away)

Seasonality & Day-of-Week Patterns

Monthly Seasonality

MonthAvg ReturnWin RateSamples
Jan0.3%52.9%51
Feb0.2%58.8%51
Mar1.0%60.8%51
Apr2.8%62.7%51
May2.2%58.0%50
Jun0.5%56.0%50
Jul0.8%50.0%50
Aug1.3%56.0%50
Sep-0.2%52.0%50
Oct0.6%52.0%50
Nov1.9%64.0%50
Dec1.4%51.0%51

Day-of-Week Tendencies

DayAvg ReturnWin RateSamples
Monday -0.07% 44.0% 2384
Tuesday 0.04% 46.6% 2587
Wednesday 0.11% 48.2% 2587
Thursday 0.08% 47.7% 2537
Friday 0.10% 48.6% 2524

Top Institutional Holders

Institutional holder breakdown coming soon.

Total institutional ownership: 93.5%

Insider Transactions — Smart Summary

Total insider ownership: 0.2%

12-Month Insider Activity Summary

Total Filings16
Net Value-$8.7M
Net Shares Change10,910
% of Float0.0%
C-Suite Filings7
Clusters Detected2

Key Insiders

NameTitleNet ValueFilingsActivity
Beck Christophe CHAIRMAN and CEO -$3.3M 1 1 sell
Alfano Nicholas J. EVP and PRES - GLOBAL WATER -$1.6M 1 1 sell
MacLennan David +$816,485.15 4 4 buy
Cook Gregory B EVP and PRES - INST GROUP -$549,725.15 1 1 sell
Vautrinot Suzanne M -$265,967.852 1 1 sell
McKibben Tracy B -$125,782.4 1 1 sell
Bradway Jennifer J SVP and CORPORATE CONTROLLER -$54,899.48 1 1 sell

Transaction Clusters

PeriodFilingsInsidersNet ValueSeniority
2025-08-15 – 2025-08-19 3 3 -$324,643.018 1 C-suite
2026-02-17 – 2026-02-27 6 6 -$5.8M 4 C-suite

Significant Filings

DateInsiderTitleNet ValuePrice After
2026-05-14 MacLennan David +$250,650 Transaction at $250.65, now +4.8%
2026-05-05 MacLennan David +$205,529.6 Transaction at $256.91, now +2.2%
2026-05-27 Vautrinot Suzanne M -$265,967.852 Transaction at $214.30, now +22.5%
2026-02-27 Cook Gregory B EVP and PRES - INST GROUP -$549,725.15 Transaction at $220.67, now +19.0%
2025-12-08 MacLennan David +$193,197.75 Transaction at $257.60, now +1.9%
2026-02-25 Beck Christophe CHAIRMAN and CEO -$3.3M Transaction at $212.55, now +23.5%

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