Ecolab (ECL) Operating Expenses (2009 - 2025)

Ecolab's Operating Expenses history runs 17 years deep, the most recent figure standing at $1.1 billion for Q4 2025.

• Quarterly Operating Expenses rose 2.18% year-over-year to $1.1 billion in Q4 2025, while the trailing twelve-month figure through Dec 2025 was $4.5 billion (up 5.38% YoY) and the FY2025 annual result came in at $4.3 billion, up 1.25% from the prior year.
• Operating Expenses was $1.1 billion for Q4 2025 at Ecolab, down from $1.1 billion in the prior quarter.
• Across five years, Operating Expenses topped out at $1.2 billion in Q1 2025 and bottomed at $832.4 million in Q3 2021.
• A 5-year average of $995.4 million and a median of $1.0 billion in 2023 frame the typical range for Operating Expenses.
• Annual changes were most pronounced in 2021 — Operating Expenses dropped 4.92% — and 2023, when it gained 18.87%.
• Ecolab's Operating Expenses stood at $877.2 million in 2021, then advanced by 9.59% to $961.3 million in 2022, then climbed by 3.36% to $993.6 million in 2023, then advanced by 6.11% to $1.1 billion in 2024, then rose by 2.18% to $1.1 billion in 2025.
• Business Quant data shows ECL's Operating Expenses at $1.1 billion in Q4 2025, $1.1 billion in Q3 2025, and $1.1 billion in Q2 2025.