How is Ecolab (ECL) doing?
Ecolab is a company in the chemicals, specialty industry, based in Saint Paul, MN, worth $79.3B. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.
Updated Oct 9, 2026
Middling
Ecolab shares are flat over the past year, 13 points behind the S&P 500. Its type is Show-Me Grower. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 43rd percentile on market beat, the 33rd on staying power and the 63rd on business growth. It appears on 4 of our dashboards.
The past year
Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.
What kind of stock is it?
Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.
Show-Me Grower
A growing business, but the shares lag erratically and sellers lead. The market wants proof.
Show-Me Grower this month; Wallflower before that.
Also Show-Me Grower (103 in all): AVY · APD · TXT · VVV · GXO · GPC
How is it doing against its group?
Its group is Industrials / SMID, 133 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Broad industrial and small/mid-cap cyclicals — the economy beta.
Ecolab is flat over the past year, against +11% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 85th of 133 in Industrials / SMID.
How much does it move?
Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.
About usual Ecolab typically moves 1.9% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings less than 89% of large US stocks.
ECL on our dashboards
Every question where Ecolab appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with ECL highlighted. Select a column to sort.
| Question | Reading | Place | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Which stocks climb with the least drama? Leading stocks | 79Steady | 44 of 60 | Return per swing 0.93 · Return a year +19% · Volatility 20% |
| Which companies are built to last? Business quality | 65Solid | 43 of 60 | Steady margins 90 · Reliable cash 71 · Balance sheet 33 |
| Which companies raise their dividend every year? Dividends and buybacks | 95Decades | 23 of 60 | Years raised 40+ years · Growth, 5Y +7% a yr · Yield 1.0% |
| Which stocks move with oil? Funds and commodities | 8Falls with oil | 41 of 45 | Sensitivity -0.17 · Correlation -0.39 · 3M +4% |
Go deeper on Stox
ECL’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.
How to read this page
How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.
Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.
Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.
Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.
Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.
For financial statements, earnings and news, see ECL’s full profile on Stox.
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