Ecolab (ECL) Operating Expenses (2009 - 2025)

Ecolab (ECL) has 17 years of Operating Expenses data on file, last reported at $1.1 billion in Q4 2025.

• For the quarter ending Q4 2025, Operating Expenses rose 2.18% year-over-year to $1.1 billion; the trailing twelve-month figure through Dec 2025 stood at $4.3 billion (up 1.58% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was $4.3 billion, up 1.25% from the prior year.
• Operating Expenses for Q4 2025 stood at $1.1 billion, down from $1.1 billion in the prior quarter.
• Across five years, Operating Expenses topped out at $1.1 billion in Q1 2024 and bottomed at $833.4 million in Q3 2021.
• The 5-year median for Operating Expenses is $1.0 billion (2022), against an average of $990.0 million.
• The widest annual swing landed in 2021, when Operating Expenses fell 3.04%; it then gained 18.76% in 2022.
• A 5-year view of Operating Expenses shows it stood at $848.0 million in 2021, then increased by 18.76% to $1.0 billion in 2022, then slipped by 0.25% to $1.0 billion in 2023, then increased by 4.95% to $1.1 billion in 2024, then increased by 2.18% to $1.1 billion in 2025.
• The last three Operating Expenses figures came in at $1.1 billion (Q4 2025), $1.1 billion (Q3 2025), and $1.1 billion (Q2 2025), per Business Quant data.

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