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Ecolab vs Sensient Technologies (ECL vs SXT)
The two stocks side by side, as of the latest close. Performance is rebased to 100 at the start of the window.
Over the past year Ecolab (ECL) returned +16.1% and Sensient Technologies (SXT) +24.0%; so far this year the figures are +14.5% and +26.9%.
Ecolab is the larger company by market value, about 16.6 times the size of Sensient Technologies.
On trailing earnings, ECL trades at 40.9 times and SXT at 30.0 times.
Revenue grew +9.3% at ECL and +9.5% at SXT over the last year.
ECL yields 0.97%. SXT yields 1.38%.
Data as of the latest close. Not investment advice.
Relative performance
| ECL | SXT | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $300.68 | $119.19 |
| 1-day | -1.68% | -0.47% |
| YTD | +14.54% | +26.87% |
| 1 year | +16.12% | +24.04% |
| 3 years | +79.82% | +112.73% |
| Market cap | $84.3B | $5.1B |
| P/E | 40.9 | 30.0 |
| P/S | 4.85 | 2.90 |
| P/B | 8.09 | 3.94 |
| Revenue growth | +9.30% | +9.50% |
| EPS growth | +5.60% | +21.40% |
| Gross margin % | 43.9 | 35.1 |
| Net margin % | 12.0 | 9.7 |
| ROE % | 20.0 | 13.2 |
| Debt / equity | 1.27 | 0.61 |
| FCF yield % | 2.1 | -0.3 |
| Dividend yield % | 0.97 | 1.38 |
| Beta | 0.50 | 0.84 |
| RSI (14) | 57.3 | 37.4 |
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