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Ecolab Inc (ECL) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

The Closelooknet read

Ecolab supplies water treatment, cleaning and infection-prevention products and services, organised into four segments: Global Water, Global Institutional & Specialty, Global Pest Elimination, and Global Life Sciences. It sells through direct sales teams, distributors and dealers under brand names including Ecolab, Kay, Purolite and Bioquell, serving industries from food and beverage to power generation and pharmaceuticals.

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for ECL, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Versus its index HALO Growth 100 — the name, its sleeve and the index over day, week and month

Versus its index

The name against its Closelooknet index and its own sleeve — equal-weight, nightly closes.

HALO Growth 100 · as of 2026-11-10

DayWeekMonth3 months
ECL−0.2%+0.4%+7.6%+9.9%
Grid, Industrial & Specialty Materials−0.1%+0.1%+1.2%—
HALO Growth 100−1.0%−0.1%+1.9%—

Against the index: 0.5 pts ahead on the week, 5.7 pts ahead on the month; against its Grid, Industrial & Specialty Materials sleeve 6.4 pts ahead on the month.

Returns from the index workers’ nightly closes; equal-weight sleeves. A relative reading from the research diary, not advice.

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 48/100 · S&P 500 fund at 51, above its 200-day averageEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-11-10
  • Factor regime Defensive rotation — low-vol leading, regime-change watchMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): below its 50-day trend, 67th percentile of the window, -18.1% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-11-10
  • Sector × region Materials in US: +0.5% week · +6.9% month · +1.0% quarter · +2.6% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLB.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-11-10
  • Sovereign pressure Index -1.67 · down 1.71 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-11-09
How it trades on rate days beta 0.83 to TLT · on the worst bond days it moved with the market

How it trades on rate days

How ECL has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.83 — moves strongly with bonds for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Ecolab Inc moved 0.83% on average · correlation 0.37 · higher than 71% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.73 about the same as over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −0.55% on average against −0.72% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days −0.23% TLT −1.32% that day 2026-11-10

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against HALO Growth 100 · Grid, Industrial & Specialty Materials · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

HALO Growth 100 · Grid, Industrial & Specialty Materials

Switchgear, transformers, grid-tied power kit, specialty chemicals. The physical layer beneath every digital build-out.

Compared against ECL on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Ecolab Inc

ECL in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Ecolab supplies water treatment, cleaning and infection-prevention products and services, organised into four segments: Global Water, Global Institutional & Specialty, Global Pest Elimination, and Global Life Sciences. It sells through direct sales teams, distributors and dealers under brand names including Ecolab, Kay, Purolite and Bioquell, serving industries from food and beverage to power generation and pharmaceuticals. It is headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Where it sits in the stack
Ecolab has no seat in our Rubin AI-hardware index; it sits in the Grid, Industrial & Specialty Materials sleeve of the HALO Growth 100, the diary's growth index outside the megacaps. That sleeve covers the physical layer beneath any digital build-out, and Ecolab is a supplier of water treatment and cooling-water chemicals to the power-generation and industrial plants that keep data centres and heavy manufacturing running.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's peer group places it with the Grid, Industrial & Specialty Materials names — Schneider Electric, Linde, Sika, Quanta Services, PACCAR, Deere, Cintas and Copart — grouped for their shared exposure to grid, industrial and specialty-materials demand; the market also names Veolia Environnement as a comparable water-treatment competitor.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
Ecolab is a constituent of the HALO Growth 100. It carries a Closelooknet score, but with only one module scored so far the score is still being built. The diary has not yet quoted or featured it in an edition.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether demand for industrial water treatment and cooling chemicals tracks the pace of new power-generation and data-centre capacity coming online.

Ecolab Inc (ECL) trades on US exchanges, classified under Basic Materials. Constituent of HALO Growth 100.

The Closelooknet company score reads 48/100 composite (momentum 77, quality 60, valuation 23) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

The Street on this name 0 analyst actions on the wire · last print 2026-10-27

The Street on this name

Analyst actions and the latest print for ECL from the Closelooknet wires — third-party opinions on the record, not our readings.

  • Latest print EPS 2.18 against 2.18 expected — a 0.0% in line 2026-10-27

Analyst wire → · Earnings wire →

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 0.95%, quarterly · buybacks 784 m USD in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

What ECL pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 2.92 USD per share · a 0.95% yield on the 2026-11-10 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-11-10
  • Change on the year +12.3% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 2.60 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.73 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-09-15
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.57 USD (partial) · 2024: 2.36 USD · 2025: 2.68 USD · 2026: 2.19 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-12-18
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 754 m USD 36% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 784 m USD 0.9% of today's market value
  • Share count −0.5% in FY2025 137 m USD of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 1.54 bn USD · 81% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-11-11

Quick answers

What is Ecolab Inc (ECL)?

Ecolab Inc trades as ECL on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Basic Materials in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-11-11.

Is ECL in a Closelooknet index?

Yes — Ecolab Inc is a constituent of HALO Growth 100, as of 2026-11-11.

What is Ecolab Inc's Closelooknet composite score?

48 out of 100, with momentum 77, quality 60 and valuation 23 sub-scores, as of 2026-11-11. Scores are Closelooknet's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does ECL trade against its moving averages?

Ecolab Inc trades 7.9% above its 50-day and 10.9% above its 200-day moving average (3.7% above its 20-day). As of 2026-11-09 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How is ECL doing against its Closelooknet index?

Over the past month Ecolab Inc is +7.6% against +1.9% for the HALO Growth 100 — 5.7 points ahead of its index, as of 2026-11-10. Its Grid, Industrial & Specialty Materials sleeve is +1.2% over the same month. The “Versus its index” table on this page carries the day, the week and the month for the name, its sleeve and the index.

How does Ecolab Inc compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (HALO Growth 100 · Grid, Industrial & Specialty Materials), Ecolab Inc (ECL) sits 3.8% below its 52-week high, 7.9% above its 50-day average; Fastenal Company (FAST) is 0.8% below, Linde plc Ordinary Shares (LIN) is 5.1% below, Sika AG (SIKA.SW) is 3.2% below, as of 2026-11-09. Put any of them next to ECL in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

How does Ecolab Inc trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Ecolab Inc had a beta of 0.83 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it moves strongly with bonds, higher than 71% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −0.55% on average, against −0.72% for the S&P 500. As of 2026-11-10; The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

What does Ecolab Inc do?

Ecolab supplies water treatment, cleaning and infection-prevention products and services, organised into four segments: Global Water, Global Institutional & Specialty, Global Pest Elimination, and Global Life Sciences. It sells through direct sales teams, distributors and dealers under brand names including Ecolab, Kay, Purolite and Bioquell, serving industries from food and beverage to power generation and pharmaceuticals. It is headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Closelooknet's peer group places it with the Grid, Industrial & Specialty Materials names — Schneider Electric, Linde, Sika, Quanta Services, PACCAR, Deere, Cintas and Copart — grouped for their shared exposure to grid, industrial and specialty-materials demand; the market also names Veolia Environnement as a comparable water-treatment competitor. (Company snapshot of 2026-09-17.)

Where does Ecolab Inc sit in the AI build-out?

Ecolab has no seat in our Rubin AI-hardware index; it sits in the Grid, Industrial & Specialty Materials sleeve of the HALO Growth 100, the diary's growth index outside the megacaps. That sleeve covers the physical layer beneath any digital build-out, and Ecolab is a supplier of water treatment and cooling-water chemicals to the power-generation and industrial plants that keep data centres and heavy manufacturing running. Ecolab is a constituent of the HALO Growth 100. It carries a Closelooknet score, but with only one module scored so far the score is still being built. The diary has not yet quoted or featured it in an edition. (Company snapshot of 2026-09-17.)

Does Ecolab Inc pay a dividend?

Ecolab Inc has paid 2.92 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 0.95% on the 2026-11-10 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.73 USD on 2026-09-15. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 754 m USD in dividends and bought back 784 m USD of its own shares, 81% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count fell 0.5% over the fiscal year. As of 2026-11-10; the "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What has Wall Street done on Ecolab Inc recently?

Its latest earnings print on the wire, 2026-10-27: EPS 2.18 against 2.18 expected — a 0.0% in line. Analyst actions are third-party opinions recorded by the wire, not Closelooknet readings. The “The Street on this name” block on this page lists the moves; the full feeds are the analyst wire and the earnings wire.

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