Ecolab Inc. (NYSE:ECL) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.07M but it saw 1253344 shares traded on Thursday. With a market cap of 47.38B USD, stock’s current market price of $166.73 came falling about -0.55 while comparing to the previous closing price of $167.65. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $179.76 and as low as $131.04. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $168.42 while lowest mark touched by it was $165.255.
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Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Ecolab Inc. (ECL) gives us an average price of $172.26, while its current price level is -7.25% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 27.24% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $166.59 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $156.93. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.72% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 1.73%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 41.15 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.
Over the week, ECL’s stock price is moving -4.70% down while it is 2.55% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 14.54% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 5.26%.
The latest quarterly earnings report issued by the company was for quarter ended 3/30/2023, when its quarterly earnings per share (EPS) of $0.88 beat the consensus estimate of $0.86 for the same. For ECL, analysts are forecasting an EPS-growth rate of 11.10% for current year and estimate for EPS growth in next year is 17.60%. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $3.96 billion as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $15.33 billion and seeing the company making $16.1 billion in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $3.86 billion for current-quarter revenue.
Currently, Ecolab Inc.’s total number of outstanding shares is 284.60M with 0.16% of that held by the insiders while 89.29% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 8.70% and return on equity (ROE) at 16.10%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 41.36 while having a 28.40 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.00. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 6.46 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 3.27. Its return on asset (ROA) is 5.40% on average.
A filing at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission revealed that Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF came shrinking its share ownership by 0.35% in the Ecolab Inc. (ECL) increasing its stake to 2.80% with control over 27903.0 shares in the company. In the most recent quarter, Vanguard 500 Index Fund came rising its stake by 0.54% in the company and now holds 5.82 million or 2.05% of the company’s stake having worth of about 976.21 million.
