Ecolab, Inc. (ECL) ticks all the boxes for top investors with its surprise performance of -0.61% last month.

On Tuesday, Ecolab, Inc. (NYSE: ECL) was -1.05% drop from the session before settling in for the closing price of $256.45. A 52-week range for ECL has been $157.59 – $262.61.

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 27.96%. With a float of $252.90 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. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 42.58%, operating margin of 15.37%, and the pretax margin is 13.39%.

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 11.12%, while institutional ownership is 78.17%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Sep 11 ’24, was worth 451,750. In this transaction Director of this company sold 1,807 shares at a rate of $250.00, taking the stock ownership to the 24,041 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Sep 12 ’24, when Company’s Director sold 393 for $250.00, making the entire transaction worth $98,250. This insider now owns 24,041 shares in total.

Ecolab, Inc. (ECL) Latest Financial update

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 27.96% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 15.67% 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 1.10. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 4.62. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 34.83.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 5.96, a number that is poised to hit 1.82 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 7.54 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Ecolab, Inc. (ECL)

Ecolab, Inc. (NYSE: ECL) saw its 5-day average volume 1.0 million, a negative change from its year-to-date volume of 1.08 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 31.70%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 4.45.

During the past 100 days, Ecolab, Inc.’s (ECL) raw stochastic average was set at 78.75%, which indicates a significant increase from 54.43% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 14.43% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 20.18% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $252.37, while its 200-day Moving Average is $233.72. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $258.48 in the near term. At $263.19, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $270.84. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $246.12, it is likely to go to the next support level at $238.47. The third support level lies at $233.76 if the price breaches the second support level.

Ecolab, Inc. (NYSE: ECL) Key Stats

There are 284,538K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 72.20 billion. As of now, sales total 15,320 M while income totals 1,372 M. Its latest quarter income was 3,986 M while its last quarter net income were 490,900 K.