ECL Ecolab Inc.
Trend channel, buy level and 3-month target. Information only, not financial advice.
At the channel ceiling · 12-month channel rising
Price is at the upper line, where it has stalled before.
- 9-month channel
- US$270.33 – US$303.47 · rising, +7% a year
- 12-month channel read from
- US$269.47 – US$295.72 · rising, +8% a year
- Price in channel
- 127% (0% = floor, 100% = ceiling)
- Ceiling overhead
- US$303.47
- Turns bearish below
- US$269.47
- Published levels
- Buy and target are not from this channel — see below.
What broke this trend
- The fall
- -20% from US$306.6227 Feb 2026 → 19 May 2026
- Whose problem it was
- This company1 of 3 Chemicals - Specialty peers fell with it
- Does it resolve?
- Temporary falls like it have resolved on the record
- Regained so far
- 94%of what it lost
- What the record says
- 86% of 5 comparable falls came back, typically in 19 days measured on its own peer group
Fell -20% (27 Feb 2026 → 19 May 2026); regained 94% so far; company-specific.
Reported at the time: Ecolab Files Prospectus For Offering Mixed Shelf; Terms Undisclosed — 23 Feb 2026
Price history, with the path projected 3 months forward
Updated 4:37 PM ET (43 h ago)
- Daily close
- Upper trend line (9 months)
- Lower trend line (9 months)
- The same lines over the last 12 months
- Dashed after today: projected 3 months
- Our buy
- Our target
Suggested path
Buy at or below
US$276.67
level as at 20 Nov 2026
Our target
US$304.34
by 14 Nov 2026
Projected move
10.0%
gross, before costs
Price is between our buy and target.
Target: ECL's usual move size (10.0%), the best return per day on this path.
This move size: reached in 23% of 8 past stretches, typically in 35 days. (0.29% per day)
- Upper line touches
- 4
- Lower line touches
- 4
- Fit confidence
- 86%
- Fitted
- 1 Nov 2026
Company information
About Ecolab Inc.
Ecolab Inc. provides water, hygiene, and infection prevention solutions and services in the United States and internationally. The company operates through four segments: Global Water, Global Institutional & Specialty, Global Pest Elimination, and Global Life Sciences. The Global Water segment offers water treatment and process applications, and cleaning and sanitizing solutions to manufacturing, food and beverage processing, transportation, chemical, primary metals and mining, power generation, global refining, petrochemical, pulp and paper industries. The Global Institutional & Specialty segment provides cleaning and sanitizing products to the foodservice, healthcare, hospitality, lodging, government, education and retail industries. The Global Pest Elimination segment provides pest elimination services to detect, prevent, and eliminate pests comprising rodents and insects in full-service and quick-service restaurants, food and beverage processors, hotels, grocery operations, and other commercial segments, including education, life sciences, and healthcare. The Global Life Sciences segment provides cleaning and contamination control solutions to pharmaceutical and personal care manufacturers. It offers its products under the Ecolab, Kay, Purolite, and Bioquell brand names. The company sells its products through field sales and corporate account personnel, distributors, and dealers. Ecolab Inc. was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
- Sector
- Basic Materials
- Industry
- Chemicals - Specialty
- CEO
- Christophe Beck
- Employees
- 48,000
- Country
- US
Scorecard
Our own scores from the fundamentals below (not Morningstar ratings).
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Key statistics
- Market cap
- US$78.60B
- Enterprise value
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- Beta
- 0.89
- Avg volume
- 1.54M
- Revenue per share
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- Dividend yield
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- 52-week range
- 243.15-309.27
- Exchange
- NYSE
Key ratios
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- Debt / equity
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Cash flow
Trend lines are fitted to past swing highs and lows and may not continue. Information only, not financial advice.