Today’s Stock: Ecolab Inc. (ECL)Today’s Stock: Ecolab Inc. (ECL)
Ecolab Inc. provides water, hygiene, and infection prevention solutions and services in the United States and internationally.
My Thoughts 💭My Thoughts 💭
One day I was thinking about trying to invest in the makers of Clorox Bleach and went down the cleaning products rabbit hole and found this company Ecolab. I looked at their fundamentals and thought wow this company looks good let me throw them on a watchlist! So here we are!
At 295k sats per share ($91,096), and pays a 3.2k sat per share dividend. It would take 92 years to break even. This is a lot of sats invest upfront to get a paltry dividend.
The company trades at a PE of $38 which means investors are paying $38 to access $1 of profit. This is very expensive for a stock that isn’t growing at the rate needed to justify this elevated valuation.
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The fundamentals for this company okay. Strong revenues, weak growth prospects, and over leveraged balance sheet that pays a decent dividend. With 91% of the float by Wall Street I am unsure this company’s stock price will increase much higher.
One share is over 200k sats! That is really expensive!! Especially if we expect the cash balance for Bitcoin to grow more than Ecolab is expected to grow! The 3k in sats flow can change if Ecolab cut’s their dividend or the bitcoin price runs away (or goes down which could increase the Sat flow)
If you have a passion for helping companies keep the world clean then buying this stock makes a lot of moral sense. We all need cleaning products but if that isn’t your jam then this company isn’t worth selling sats for.
They have a strong foot hold in hospitals, stadiums, event spaces, restaurant industry but I think Diversy is a strong competitor and is growing faster than ecolab. Unfortunately Diversy got bought out by private equity and isn’t publicly traded anymore.
Ahh interesting
I've seen ecolab products in hospitals and doctors' offices, I believe. But your write-up doesn't make me think it's worth it.
The debt is bad, growth appears limited and over paying to access a meh dividend.
It’s better to hold bitcoin than this company.
Crazy how strategy gets so much FUD and yet so many companies operate just like this.
Levered up. Pays a dividend no true way to grow revenue and earnings.
Buying their stock to give them your hard earned resources to do what? Pay debt and pay the shareholders dividends?