Witnessing the stock’s movement on the chart, on Wednesday, Ecolab, Inc. (NYSE: ECL) had a quiet start as it plunged -1.61% to $222.15, before settling in for the price of $225.79 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, ECL posted a 52-week range of $156.72-$231.86.
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The Basic Materials sector firm’s twelve-monthly sales growth has been 1.38% for the last half of the decade. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was -0.37%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 23.06%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $285.45 million, simultaneously with a float of $253.90 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $63.43 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $219.69, while the 200-day Moving Average is $192.23.
Ecolab, Inc. (ECL) Ownership Facts and Figures
Nothing is more important than checking the behaviour of major investors towards the stock of the Specialty Chemicals industry. Ecolab, Inc.’s current insider ownership accounts for 11.07%, in contrast to 79.73% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Feb 15 ’24, this organization’s SVP & CORPORATE CONTROLLER sold 944 shares at the rate of 216.01, making the entire transaction reach 203,913 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 3,029. Preceding that transaction, on Dec 04 ’23, Company’s EVP – HUMAN RESOURCES sold 11,917 for 191.41, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 2,281,081. This particular insider is now the holder of 20,538 in total.
Ecolab, Inc. (ECL) Earnings and Revenue Records
As on 12/30/2023, Multinational firm has announced its last quarter scores, in which it reported $1.55 earnings per share (EPS) for the period topping the consensus outlook (set at $1.54) by $0.01. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.54 per share during the current fiscal year.
Ecolab, Inc.’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 23.06% and is forecasted to reach 7.29 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 15.55% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the -0.37% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.
Ecolab, Inc. (NYSE: ECL) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Ecolab, Inc. (ECL). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 0.95. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 3.25. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $46.40, and its Beta score is 1.10. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 4.14. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 38.75.
In the same vein, ECL’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 4.79, a figure that is expected to reach 1.34 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 7.29 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Ecolab, Inc. (ECL)
Going through the that latest performance of [Ecolab, Inc., ECL]. Its last 5-days volume of 1.18 million was inferior to the volume of 1.21 million it revealed a year ago. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 21.15% While, its Average True Range was 3.36.
Raw Stochastic average of Ecolab, Inc. (ECL) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 80.37%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 10.51% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 15.01% that was lower than 18.68% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
