For the quarter ended March 2025, Ecolab (ECL) reported revenue of $3.7 billion, down 1.5% over the same period last year. EPS came in at $1.50, compared to $1.34 in the year-ago quarter.
The reported revenue compares to the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $3.7 billion, representing a surprise of -0.07%. The company has not delivered EPS surprise, with the consensus EPS estimate being $1.50.
While investors closely watch year-over-year changes in headline numbers -- revenue and earnings -- and how they compare to Wall Street expectations to determine their next course of action, some key metrics always provide a better insight into a company's underlying performance.
As these metrics influence top- and bottom-line performance, comparing them to the year-ago numbers and what analysts estimated helps investors project a stock's price performance more accurately.
Here is how Ecolab performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Sales- Global Institutional & Specialty (Public Currency rates): $1.42 billion versus $1.29 billion estimated by three analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a +11.9% change.
- Sales- Global Institutional & Specialty (Fixed Currency rates): $1.41 billion versus $1.37 billion estimated by three analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a +10.7% change.
- Sales- Global Pest Elimination (Fixed Currency Rates): $278.10 million compared to the $283.95 million average estimate based on three analysts.
- Sales- Global Pest Elimination (Public Currency rates): $280.60 million versus the three-analyst average estimate of $283.79 million.
- Operating Income- Corporate (Fixed currency rates): -$82.50 million versus the three-analyst average estimate of -$49.15 million.
- Operating Income- Global Institutional & Specialty (Fixed Currency rates): $298.60 million versus the three-analyst average estimate of $279.46 million.
- Operating Income- Global Pest Elimination (Fixed Currency Rates): $46.10 million versus $50.11 million estimated by three analysts on average.
- Operating Income- Global Pest Elimination (Public Currency rates): $46.50 million versus the three-analyst average estimate of $48.72 million.
- Operating Income- Global Institutional & Specialty (Public Currency rates): $300.60 million versus the three-analyst average estimate of $283.10 million.
- Operating Income- Corporate (Public Currency rates): -$83.10 million compared to the -$108 million average estimate based on two analysts.
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Shares of Ecolab have returned -5.7% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's -0.8% change. The stock currently has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold), indicating that it could perform in line with the broader market in the near term.
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