On Tuesday, Ecolab, Inc. (NYSE: ECL) was -2.31% down from the session before settling in for the closing price of $234.31. A 52-week range for ECL has been $156.72 – $236.00.
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Annual sales at Basic Materials sector company grew by 1.38% over the past five years. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 26.62%. With a float of $254.00 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $285.45 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 48000 employees.
Ecolab, Inc. (ECL) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Ecolab, Inc. stocks. The insider ownership of Ecolab, Inc. is 11.06%, while institutional ownership is 79.96%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on May 06 ’24, was worth 1,023,854. In this transaction Director of this company sold 4,500 shares at a rate of $227.52, taking the stock ownership to the 25,548 shares. Before that another transaction happened on May 03 ’24, when Company’s Director bought 650 for $227.37, making the entire transaction worth $147,788. This insider now owns 17,111 shares in total.
Ecolab, Inc. (ECL) Latest Financial update
Going through the last 3-months fiscal report unveiled on the 3/31/2024, it has been observed that the corporation posted 1.24 earnings per share (EPS) during the time that was better than consensus figure (set at 1.21) by 0.03. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.8 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 26.62% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 16.59% during the next five years compared to -0.37% drop over the previous five years of trading.
Ecolab, Inc. (NYSE: ECL) Trading Performance Indicators
You can see what Ecolab, Inc. (ECL) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 0.99. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 4.22. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 31.73.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 5.40, a number that is poised to hit 1.67 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 7.44 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Ecolab, Inc. (ECL)
Ecolab, Inc. (NYSE: ECL) saw its 5-day average volume 0.71 million, a negative change from its year-to-date volume of 1.16 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 46.95%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 2.74.
During the past 100 days, Ecolab, Inc.’s (ECL) raw stochastic average was set at 83.31%, which indicates a significant increase from 5.84% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 11.29% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 18.83% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $227.24, while its 200-day Moving Average is $199.12. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $232.40 in the near term. At $235.90, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $237.87. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $226.93, it is likely to go to the next support level at $224.96. The third support level lies at $221.46 if the price breaches the second support level.
Ecolab, Inc. (NYSE: ECL) Key Stats
There are 285,570K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 65.37 billion. As of now, sales total 15,320 M while income totals 1,372 M. Its latest quarter income was 3,752 M while its last quarter net income were 412,100 K.
