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EcolabECL

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  • 4 good· Insider buying
  • 3 to watch· Funds trimming

$306.98−0.88 (−0.29%)

Price at 3:00 PM ET

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NYSE · Basic Materials · Specialty Chemicals · Large company

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What would change it

Sources

Could move it to Buy more

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  • above9%

    sales growth

Any one could move it to Sell some

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  • Shrinking

    sales

Compared with the S&P 500

  • 5 points

    worse in one day

  • 11 points

    worse in five trading days

+18.4% in a year

Earnings report

The news behind our call

written Sep 22, 9:58 AM ETSep 22, 9:58 AM ET · 2 articles · 2 sources

What changed

From Scheduled market snapshot and Yahoo Finance
  1. Analyst ratings shifted: 1 fewer buy, 1 more hold

    20 buy, 4 hold, 0 sell, against 21 buy, 3 hold, 0 sell the month before.

    Analysts · This month

  2. Mid Check price snapshot captured

    Today

  3. Morgan Stanley sees AI making Ecolab’s (ECL) Competitive Moat even stronger

    Sunday

  4. Analyst ratings shifted: 1 more buy, 1 fewer hold

    21 buy, 3 hold, 0 sell, against 20 buy, 4 hold, 0 sell the month before.

    Analysts · Last month

  5. ECL reported earnings

    Earnings · Oct 27

  6. Went ex-dividend: $0.73 a share

    Paid Oct 15.

    Dividend · Sep 15

  7. Analyst ratings shifted: 2 fewer hold

    20 buy, 4 hold, 0 sell, against 20 buy, 6 hold, 0 sell the month before.

    Analysts · Aug

  8. Went ex-dividend: $0.73 a share

    Paid Jul 15.

    Dividend · Jun 16

Overview

In plain numbers

  • Revenue grew 9.3% from a year earlier, to $17.4B in the last twelve months.
  • It keeps 18 cents of every revenue dollar as operating profit, up from 15 cents in FY 2021.
  • It turned 10.3% of revenue into free cash flow: $1.8B in the last twelve months.
  • It owes $13.9B and holds $722.3M in cash and investments, so net debt is $13.2B.

Key figures

Revenue (TTM)
$17.4B
Revenue growth, 1 year
+9.3%
Net income
$2.1B
EPS (diluted)
$7.35
Gross margin
44.0%
Operating margin
18.5%
Return on equity
20.8%
Return on capital
12.1%
Debt / equity
1.33
Current ratio
1.11
Dividend yield
0.95%
Buyback yield
0.78%

Key facts

Company value
$84.3B
Price / last year's earnings
38.5×
Today's range
306.09311.30
Past year's range
244.41315.01
Yesterday's close
$307.86
Dividend yield
0.95%$2.92 a year

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