Share buybacks · 2011–2025

Ecolab share buybacks

$784M−20.5% · FY2025

Ecolab (ECL) reported $784M in share buybacks for fiscal 2025, −20.5% year on year.

$690M2011$210M2012$308M2013$429M2014$755M2015$740M2016$600M2017$562M2018$354M2019$146M2020$107M2021$518M2022$13.7M2023$987M2024$784M2025
Ecolab — Share buybacks, 2011–2025
Fiscal yearShare buybacksChangeFiling
FY20252025-12-31$784M−20.5%Open →
FY20242024-12-31$987M+7,100.7%Open →
FY20232023-12-31$13.7M−97.4%Open →
FY20222022-12-31$518M+386.1%Open →
FY20212021-12-31$107M−27.1%Open →
FY20202020-12-31$146M−58.7%Open →
FY20192019-12-31$354M−37.1%Open →
FY20182018-12-31$562M−6.3%Open →
FY20172017-12-31$600M−18.8%Open →
FY20162016-12-31$740M−2.1%Open →
FY20152015-12-31$755M+76.2%Open →
FY20142014-12-31$429M+39.3%Open →
FY20132013-12-31$308M+46.5%Open →
FY20122012-12-31$210M−69.6%Open →
FY20112011-12-31$690M—Open →

Share buybacks — Share buybacks are the cash a company spent during the year repurchasing its own stock, taken from the financing section of the cash-flow statement. Most companies buy back nothing at all — the line is absent rather than zero — so this ranking covers the minority that do.

Every row links to its own SEC filing · Fiscal year 2025 · Data as of September 25, 2026 · 2011–2025 compound annual growth +0.9%

Share buybacks at companies of similar size

Full ranking by share buybacks →

Cite this page

Ready-made references for the figures on this page, as published on September 25, 2026.

Wikipedia

{{cite web |title=Ecolab share buybacks |url=https://companiesranked.com/en/company/ecolab/share-buybacks |website=CompaniesRanked |date=2026-09-25 |language=en}}

APA 7

CompaniesRanked. (September 25, 2026). Ecolab share buybacks. CompaniesRanked. https://companiesranked.com/en/company/ecolab/share-buybacks

BibTeX

@misc{companiesranked-en-company-ecolab-share-buybacks-2026,
  author       = {{CompaniesRanked}},
  title        = {{Ecolab share buybacks}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://companiesranked.com/en/company/ecolab/share-buybacks}},
  note         = {Compiled from SEC EDGAR XBRL filings; data as of 2026-09-25},
  urldate      = {2026-09-25}
}

The filing itself

The numbers above are read from this document: 10-K · 0001104659-26-018357 · February 23, 2026

{{cite web |title=Ecolab share buybacks — 10-K (0001104659-26-018357) |url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31462/000110465926018357/ecl-20251231x10k.htm |website=SEC EDGAR |publisher=U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission |date=2026-02-23}}

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