Ecolab has grown revenue 4.5% a year over three years and 6.8% a year over five, with earnings per share compounding at 22%. Revenue growth, 3-year annual rate: +4.5% (Specialty Chemicals median +3.3%). Revenue growth, 5-year rate: +6.8%, growth has slowed since the five-year average. Earnings per share, 3-year rate: +22%, earnings outgrew revenue: margins or the share count worked for shareholders. Years of annual history on file: 19, FY2007 to FY2025, as filed.

ECLEcolab

Basic Materials

$281.83+7.3% 1Y

$281.83

$245.0652 weeks$306.69

Is it growing?

Mixed

Neither accelerating nor breaking down: nothing decisive, though operating margin narrowing (−1.4 points).

1 to watch, 2 neutral

Revenue trend+7% in a year

Trailing-twelve-month revenue vs a year earlier, from the company's own filings. Five-year pace: +7% a year.

Earnings trend−1% in a year

Trailing-twelve-month earnings per share against a year earlier. Growing slower than revenue, so the growth is costing something.

Margin direction−1.4 points operating

Trailing-twelve-month operating margin, 16.9% now against 18.3% a year earlier.

All from SEC EDGAR, as of Jun 30, 2026.

Against the whole market›

Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.

Revenue growth, 3 yearsmiddle of the market

Where this answer is blind. These are trailing numbers from the filings, not forecasts: an acquisition or a one-off year can flatter them, so check the quarters.

Is ECL growing?

Ecolab has grown revenue 4.5% a year over three years and 6.8% a year over five, with earnings per share compounding at 22%.

+4.5%

Revenue growth, 3-year annual rate · Specialty Chemicals median +3.3% · growing slowly · compounded from trailing twelve-month revenue

Revenue growth, 5-year rate: +6.8%
Revenue growth, 5-year rate · +4.5% over three · growth has slowed since the five-year average
Earnings per share, 3-year rate: +22%
Earnings per share, 3-year rate · revenue +4.5% · earnings outgrew revenue: margins or the share count worked for shareholders
Years of annual history on file: 19
Years of annual history on file · FY2007 to FY2025, as filed