Ecolab (ECL) Return on Invested Capital (2009 - 2026)

Ecolab (ECL) has 17 years of Return on Invested Capital data on file, last reported at 0.01% in Q4 2025.

• Quarterly Return on Invested Capital changed 0.0% year-over-year to 0.01% in Q4 2025, while the trailing twelve-month figure through Dec 2025 was 0.01% (changed 0.0% YoY) and the FY2025 annual result came in at 0.04%, changed 0.0% from the prior year.
• Return on Invested Capital climbed to 0.01% in Q4 2025, from 0.01% in the prior quarter.
• In the past five years, Return on Invested Capital ranged from a high of 0.07% in Q3 2021 to a low of 0.0% in Q4 2023.
• A 5-year average of 0.02% and a median of 0.01% in 2022 frame the typical range for Return on Invested Capital.
• Annual changes were most pronounced in 2021 — Return on Invested Capital rose 6 bps — and 2022, when it declined 6 bps.
• Tracing ECL's Return on Invested Capital over 5 years: stood at 0.05% in 2021, then tumbled by 83 bps to 0.01% in 2022, then plunged by 51 bps to 0.0% in 2023, then surged by 351 bps to 0.02% in 2024, then declined by 27 bps to 0.01% in 2025.
• The last three Return on Invested Capital figures came in at 0.01% (Q4 2025), 0.01% (Q3 2025), and 0.01% (Q2 2025), per Business Quant data.