24-Feb-2026
New Buy Rating for Ecolab (ECL), the Basic Materials Giant
TipRanks (Tue, 24-Feb 8:45 PM ET)
Gabelli Hosts 17th Annual Specialty Chemicals Symposium
Globe Newswire (Tue, 24-Feb 8:00 AM ET)
Ecolab’s Operational Safety Risks Pose Potential Legal, Financial, and Reputational Fallout
TipRanks (Tue, 24-Feb 1:03 AM ET)
Ecolab Director Victoria Reich to Step Down
TipRanks (Mon, 23-Feb 5:42 PM ET)
Berenberg Bank Reaffirms Their Hold Rating on Ecolab (ECL)
TipRanks (Mon, 23-Feb 2:35 AM ET)
Business Wire (Thu, 19-Feb 6:45 PM ET)
Business Wire (Tue, 10-Feb 8:00 AM ET)
Ecolab and CDP Partner on New Benchmarks to Help Companies Improve Operational Water Performance
Business Wire (Tue, 20-Jan 1:01 AM ET)
PRNewswire (Mon, 19-Jan 2:01 AM ET)
Ecolab Earns Double 'A' Rating from CDP for Leadership in Water and Climate Performance
Business Wire (Thu, 8-Jan 8:00 AM ET)
Ecolab produces and markets cleaning and sanitation products for the industrial manufacturing, hospitality, healthcare, and life sciences markets. The firm is the global market share leader in this category with a wide array of products and services, including dish and laundry washing systems, pest control, and infection control products. Additionally, Ecolab sells customized water management solutions across its end markets. The company has a strong hold on the US market and is growing its presence abroad.
Ecolab trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol ECL.
As of February 24, 2026, ECL stock price climbed to $308.16 with 965,289 million shares trading.
ECL has a beta of 0.45, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. ECL has a correlation of 0.15 to the broad based SPY ETF.
ECL has a market cap of $87.28 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.
Last quarter Ecolab reported $4 billion in Revenue and $2.08 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $904,524 and exceeded earnings estimates by $.02.
In the last 3 years, ECL traded as high as $309.27 and as low as $153.87.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that ECL belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, IVV, SPY, VUG.
ECL has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +17.4% while the SPY ETF gained +15.8%. ECL has also outperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +15.7% and +6.9%, respectively, while the SPY returned +4.6% and -1.0%, respectively.
ECL support price is $302.43 and resistance is $308.91 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that ECL shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
