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Ecolab Inc.

ECL Basic Materials Specialty Chemicals

Ecolab Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $16.1 billion, up 2.16% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 9.69%, EPS grew 3.24%, free cash flow fell 2.91% and total debt rose 60.5%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Member of the S&P 500; dividend growth for twenty-five consecutive years, revenue growth for five, operating cash flow growth for three; insiders bought in the last twelve months.

287.52 3.29 −1.13%
Market cap
$81.5B
P/E
38.3×
Fwd P/E
32.3×
Dividend yield
1.02%
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
4.76
Beneish M
−2.51
Dividend safety
89/100
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Ecolab Inc. (ECL) Operating margin

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Ecolab Inc.'s operating margin over the twelve months to 30 June 2026 was 16.9%, down 0.1 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (17.0%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 11.0% (fiscal 2022) to 17.8% (fiscal 2024); the current reading is higher than 91% of that period. That is above the Specialty Chemicals industry median of 3.63% and above the Basic Materials sector median of 0.82%.

Operating margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
FY2025 17.0% (0.78)
FY2024 17.8% 4.80
FY2023 13.0% 1.99
FY2022 11.0% (1.54)
FY2021 12.6% 0.71
FY2020 11.8% (2.85)
FY2019 14.7% 0.55
FY2018 14.1% 0.05
FY2017 14.1% (0.13)
FY2016 14.2% 2.69

Quarterly newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
Jun 2026 17.2% 1.86
Mar 2026 15.3% (1.67)
Dec 2025 17.0% (1.28)
Sep 2025 18.3% 0.61
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Against its own ten years

Low 11.0% High 17.8%
Ten-year median 14.1%
Current reading's percentile 86

Operating margin against peers

Company Operating margin
LIN Linde PLC compare 26.5%
ECL Ecolab Inc. 16.9%
SHW The Sherwin-Williams Company compare 16.4%
PPG PPG Industries, Inc. compare 13.4%
RPM RPM International Inc. compare 12.6%
DD DuPont de Nemours, Inc. compare 9.90%
IFF International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. compare 7.48%
LYB LyondellBasell Industries N.V. compare 3.09%
APD Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. compare −4.71%
Specialty Chemicals industry median 3.63%
Basic Materials sector median 0.82%
Market median 0.00%

What Operating margin is

EBIT Margin tells an investor how much operating profit, before interest and taxes, a company keeps from each unit of revenue.

EBIT ÷ Revenue

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