ECL Stock Ownership Breakdown

A company's 13F filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) provides investors with comprehensive information about institutional ownership in a listed company, a sign of strength in terms of how many institutions have confidence in that company. The number of institutional investors who currently own ECL shares is 2065, representing 90.93% of the company's common stock.

WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT GROUP LLP, in the last quarter, reduced its stake in ECL by -4.06% restricting it's holding to 6.67 million shares of worth nearly $1.54B. CREDIT SUISSE AG/ also lessened -14.14% of the ECL shares from its portfolio, reducing its holding to 567.69 thousand shares of worth $131.08M. BLACKROCK INC. also shunned ECL shares holding by -3.6% last quarter which brought its holding to 20.94 million shares worth $4.83B.

As per its latest 13F filing, EMPOWER ADVISORY GROUP, LLC increased its stake in ECL by 0.46% in the last quarter. The institutional holder raised its holding to 562.24 thousand shares having worth more than $129.82M. SWEDBANK AB also added 100% more shares of ECL to its portfolio, raising its holding to 1.69 million shares of worth $390.69M. ABRDN PLC also increased its ECL shares holding by 5.99% which brought its holding to 1.06 million shares worth $245.05M.

The insider with the most stakes in ECL is CASCADE INVESTMENT, L.L.C. , at the company. Additionally, ECL stock is highly held by 10 percent owner GATES WILLIAM H III and BAKER DOUGLAS M JR among others.

Company executives, directors, and other insiders own 0.17% percent of Ecolab Inc.'s stock. Within the last six months, there have been 23 transaction(s) in which ECL insiders have sold stock, totaling 382.13K shares. Insiders that have sold shares include GATES WILLIAM H III, DE BOO ALEXANDER A., and HIGGINS ARTHUR J.

There have been 0 transaction(s) during the past 6-months in which Ecolab Inc. insiders have bought stock, totalling 0 shares

Around 478.58M Ecolab Inc. shares are held by insiders, which represents about 0.17% of ECL stock.

ECL , CASCADE INVESTMENT, L.L.C. holds the largest portfolio of the company's shares. ECL shares owned by CASCADE total nearly 31.19 million.

WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT GROUP LLP is the largest institutional owner in ECL which holds 6.67 million shares worth $1.54B or 2.34% of the total ECL shares outstanding followed by CREDIT SUISSE AG/ with ownership of 567.69 thousand shares representing 0.2% of the ECL ownership. EMPOWER ADVISORY GROUP, LLC is the third largest stakeholder with 562.24 thousand shares or 0.2% of the ownership worth more than $129.82M.

Stock options give the owner the ability but not the obligation to buy or sell a security at a predetermined price and date. Stock options can be classified into two types: puts and calls. A put is a bet on falling stock, and a call is a bet on rising stock. As far as the ECL is concerned, it is a stock which is optionable.

Number of ECL shares short is 2.36M. Shares short is a market sentiment in which investors have sold their shares short in a given stock but have not yet covered them or closed them out.

As of today, 283.16M shares of ECL are outstanding.

Float represents the number of tradeable shares in a specific stock. By subtracting restricted and closely-held shares from a firm's total outstanding shares, we can calculate its floating stock. The term "closely-held shares" refers to shares held by employees, major shareholders, and company insiders. At present, ECL has 254.86M shares in float.

Short ratio is calculated by dividing the number of short shares, short interest or bets that shareholders will sell short from the average daily volume. A higher ratio indicates longer times needed to repurchase borrowed shares (sold). The short ratio for ECL is 2.21.