Ecolab
$271.26Change from previous close: −1.21%Absolute change: −$3.32
Valuation
Data as of October 2, 2026
Valuation multiples
- Market cap
- $76.04B
- Enterprise value
- $84.85B
- P/E (trailing 12 months)
- 36.5
- Forward P/E
- 28.8
- PEG
- 2.47
- Price/book
- 7.56
- Price/sales
- 4.51
- EV/EBITDA
- 20.5
- EV/revenue
- 5.04
Profitability and growth
- Gross margin
- 44.2%
- Operating margin
- 18.5%
- Net margin
- 12.6%
- ROE
- 22.0%
- ROA
- 7.2%
- Revenue growth (year over year)
- 9.7%
- Earnings growth (year over year)
- 3.3%
Financial health
- Total cash
- $5.14B
- Total debt
- $13.92B
- Debt/equity
- 1.38
- Current ratio
- 1.84
- Quick ratio
- 1.50
Dividends
- Annual dividend per share
- $2.92
- Dividend yield
- 1.1%
- Payout ratio
- 38.1%
- Ex-dividend date
- September 15, 2026
Analysts and estimates
- Average price target
- $324.95
- Median price target
- $330.00
- High price target
- $360.00
- Low price target
- $295.00
- Analysts with a price target
- 21
- Consensus
- Buy
- Forward EPS
- $9.42
- EPS estimate, current year
- $8.16
Shares and trading
- Beta
- 0.89
- Average volume
- 1.27M
- Shares outstanding
- 280.33M
- Float
- 279.76M
- Institutional ownership
- 94.1%
- Insider ownership
- 0.2%
- Short interest (% of float)
- 2.1%
- Short ratio (days)
- 3.62