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The past year was a profitable year for Ecolab investors

The period between December 2015 and December 2016 was a profitable period for the investors in Ecolab. The stock gained around 6 percent. Ecolab' stock rose the past 5 years at around 115 percent. Ecolab's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were relatively stable and moved between 11,84 billion dollars and 13,55 billion dollars. Ecolab's net results between 2011 and 2015 were far from constant and moved between 463,3 million dollars and 1,02 billion dollars.

The headquarter of Ecolab is located in St. Paul. The core activities of Ecolab are in the diversified industrials sector. Douglas M. Baker leads the company as CEO. Daniel J. Schmechel leads the company as CFO. The past 10 years the (international) industry gained at around 53 percent. As from 2011 the sector is 240 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-December 2016) there is a plus of 53 percent.

The American company paid out dividends in the past 5 years. Ecolab's dividend return over the period 2011 - 2015 was around 5,03 percent per year.

Ecolab' balance mostly consists of equity

At the end of 2015 the diversified company's balance sheet equaled 18,64 billion dollars. Of the total balance sheet 11,73 billion dollars (62,93 percent) was financed by debt. As per the end of 2015 Ecolab's price/earnings-ratio equaled 22. So investors paid for 1 stock 22 times the earnings per share of 2015. We could say that based on it's price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the American stock can be seen as a value stock.

The diversified company's market capitalization (the number of shares outstanding times the market value) equaled around 32,92 billion dollars. At the end of 2015 around 296 million stocks were listed.

All Ecolab's annual reports can be found here. More information about Ecolab can be found it's website. .