---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-22-005934"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ECL"
cik: "0000031462"
company_name: "ECOLAB INC."
filed_at: "2022-04-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-26T04:47:40.245625+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ecolab Q1 adjusted EPS $0.82 +1% on 13% sales growth; maintains full-year low-teens EPS growth guidance

## Summary
- Reported sales $3.27B (+13% YoY); acquisition adjusted fixed currency sales +12%.
- Reported diluted EPS $0.60 (-10%); adjusted diluted EPS $0.82 (+1%) including $0.06 Purolite amortization.
- Delivered product cost inflation ~25% YoY; structural pricing accelerated to 5% in Q1.
- Full-year 2022 adjusted EPS guidance: low-teens growth; Q2 adjusted EPS approaching $1.22.
- Russia operations limited to essential; ~1% of 2021 sales.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-22-005934
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ECL
- cik: 0000031462
- company_name: ECOLAB INC.
- filed_at: 2022-04-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31462/000155837022005934/0001558370-22-005934-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31462/000155837022005934/ecl-20220426x8k.htm

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