---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-25-005743"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ECL"
cik: "0000031462"
company_name: "ECOLAB INC."
filed_at: "2025-04-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T04:19:13.289854+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ecolab Q1 adjusted EPS $1.50, +12% YoY; organic sales +3%; maintains 2025 EPS guidance $7.42-$7.62

## Summary
- Adjusted diluted EPS $1.50 (+12% YoY); reported diluted EPS $1.41 (-1% YoY).
- Reported net sales $3.7B (-2%); organic sales +3% with 2% FX and 2% divestiture headwinds.
- Global Institutional & Specialty organic operating income +27%; Life Sciences +31%.
- Full-year 2025 adjusted EPS outlook reaffirmed at $7.42-$7.62 (+12%-15%); 2Q25 guidance $1.84-$1.94 (+10%-15%).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-25-005743
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ECL
- cik: 0000031462
- company_name: ECOLAB INC.
- filed_at: 2025-04-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- 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/31462/000155837025005743/0001558370-25-005743-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31462/000155837025005743/ecl-20250429x8k.htm

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