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Raw inputs
Equipment
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Software
AI demand
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Company details
Market cap
$71B
P/E ratio
34×
Div yield
1.0%
EPS (adj. TTM)
$7.45
Profit margin
13%
Rev. growth
+3%
Revenue
$16B
Employees
~48,000
In plain English
Ecolab is the invisible plumbing of the consumer economy: it sells the water-treatment chemistry, cleaning and sanitising programs and pest control that keep hotels, restaurants, hospitals, food plants and factories running clean — and, crucially, the people and digital sensors who apply and monitor it. A 2011 takeover of Nalco made it the world's biggest industrial water-treatment company; a steady, recurring, service-wrapped model has powered 30+ years of dividend growth.
In simple terms
What Ecolab really sells
Ecolab is the invisible plumbing of the consumer economy: it sells the water-treatment chemistry, cleaning and sanitising programs and pest control that keep hotels, restaurants, hospitals, food plants and factories running clean — and, crucially, the people and digital sensors who apply and monitor it. A 2011 takeover of Nalco made it the world's biggest industrial water-treatment company; a steady, recurring, service-wrapped model has powered 30+ years of dividend growth.
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