Ecolab (ECL) Return on Invested Capital (2009 - 2025)

Ecolab's Return on Invested Capital history runs 17 years deep, the most recent figure standing at 0.01% for 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 was 0.01% for Q4 2025 at Ecolab, up from 0.01% in the prior quarter.
• Across five years, Return on Invested Capital topped out at 0.07% in Q3 2021 and bottomed at 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 climbed 6 bps — and 2022, when it decreased 6 bps.
• Ecolab's Return on Invested Capital stood at 0.05% in 2021, then sank by 83 bps to 0.01% in 2022, then slumped by 51 bps to 0.0% in 2023, then jumped by 351 bps to 0.02% in 2024, then retreated by 27 bps to 0.01% in 2025.
• Business Quant data shows ECL's Return on Invested Capital at 0.01% in Q4 2025, 0.01% in Q3 2025, and 0.01% in Q2 2025.