Ecolab Inc is a specialty chemicals business based in the US. Ecolab shares (ECL.US) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $171.98 – a decrease of 0.07% over the previous day. Ecolab employs 47,000 staff and has a market cap (total outstanding shares value) of $50.7 billion.
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Valuing Ecolab stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Ecolab's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
| Revenue TTM | $14.8 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 13.33% |
| Gross profit TTM | $5.4 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 5.77% |
| Return on equity TTM | 16.25% |
| Profit margin | 7.96% |
| Book value | $26.51 |
| Market capitalisation | $50.7 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 45.2% of net profits
Recently Ecolab has paid out, on average, around 45.2% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 1.19% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Ecolab shareholders could enjoy a 1.19% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Ecolab's case, that would currently equate to about $2.1 per share.
While Ecolab's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Ecolab may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.
Ecolab's most recent dividend payout was on 16 October 2023. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 18 September 2023 (the "ex-dividend date").
Ecolab's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 9 June 2003. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Ecolab shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Ecolab shares which in turn could have impacted Ecolab's share price.
Ecolab Inc. provides water, hygiene, and infection prevention solutions and services in the United States and internationally. The company operates through Global Industrial, Global Institutional & Specialty, and Global Healthcare & Life Sciences segments. The Global Industrial segment offers water treatment and process applications, and cleaning and sanitizing solutions to manufacturing, food and beverage processing, transportation, chemical, metals and mining, power generation, pulp and paper, commercial laundry, petroleum, refining, and petrochemical industries. The Global Institutional & Specialty segment provides specialized cleaning and sanitizing products to the foodservice, hospitality, lodging, government and education, and retail industries. Its Global Healthcare & Life Sciences segment offers specialized cleaning and sanitizing products to the healthcare, personal care, and pharmaceutical industries, such as infection prevention and surgical solutions, and end-to-end cleaning and contamination control solutions under the Ecolab, Microtek, and Anios brand names. The company's Other segment offers pest elimination services to detect, eliminate, and prevent pests, such as rodents and insects in restaurants, food and beverage processors, educational and healthcare facilities, hotels, quick service restaurant and grocery operations, and other institutional and commercial customers.
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