Ecolab, Inc (NYSE: ECL) on Tuesday, soared 0.69% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $239.09. Within the past 52 weeks, ECL’s price has moved between $193.46 and $262.61.
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It was noted that within the last five years, the titan of the Basic Materials sector saw sales topped by 1.38%. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 27.73%. With a float of $253.55 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $283.20 million.
The extent of productivity of a business whose workforce counts for 48000 workers is very important to gauge. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 43.17%, operating margin of 18.38%, and the pretax margin is 16.42%.
Ecolab, Inc (ECL) Insider Updates
Observing investor behavior towards Specialty Chemicals industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Ecolab, Inc is 10.46%, while institutional ownership is 78.21%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 20 ’24, was worth 25,699,268. In this transaction 10% Owner of this company sold 106,542 shares at a rate of $241.21, taking the stock ownership to the 29,348,741 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 21 ’24, when Company’s 10% Owner sold 100,000 for $242.79, making the entire transaction worth $24,278,914. This insider now owns 29,248,741 shares in total.
Ecolab, Inc (ECL) Performance Highlights and Predictions
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 27.73% 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
Ecolab, Inc (ECL) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 0.97 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 4.35. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 34.05.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 7.13, a number that is poised to hit 1.81 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 7.50 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Ecolab, Inc (ECL)
The latest stats from [Ecolab, Inc, ECL] show that its last 5-days average volume of 1.34 million was superior to 1.1 million than last year’s volume. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 24.10%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 4.12.
During the past 100 days, Ecolab, Inc’s (ECL) raw stochastic average was set at 31.31%, which indicates a significant increase from 31.26% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 19.06% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 15.58% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $248.64, while its 200-day Moving Average is $240.70. Now, the first resistance to watch is $242.18. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $243.63. The third major resistance level sits at $246.51. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $237.85, it is likely to go to the next support level at $234.97. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $233.52.
Ecolab, Inc (NYSE: ECL) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 68.17 billion based on 283,162K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 15,320 M and income totals 1,372 M. The company made 3,999 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 736,500 K in sales during its previous quarter.
