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ECL vs ELF

Side-by-side comparison of Ecolab Inc. (ECL) and e.l.f. Beauty Inc. (ELF): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both ECL and ELF operate in Package Goods/Cosmetics (Consumer Discretionary), so they compete in similar markets.
  • ECL is the larger of the two at $72.60B, about 24.6x ELF ($2.95B).
  • Over the past year, ECL is down 3.2% and ELF is down 57.5% - ECL leads by 54.3 points.
  • ECL has been more active in the news (20 items in the past 4 weeks vs 16 for ELF).
  • Both have 25 recent analyst ratings on file.
PerformanceECL-3.17%ELF-57.46%
2025-06-09+0.00%2026-06-05
MetricECLELF
Company
Ecolab Inc.
e.l.f. Beauty Inc.
Price
$258.05+1.46%
$49.58-3.63%
Market cap
$72.60B
$2.95B
1M return
-2.02%
-19.32%
1Y return
-3.17%
-57.46%
Industry
Package Goods/Cosmetics
Package Goods/Cosmetics
Exchange
NYSE
NYSE
IPO
2016
News (4w)
20
16
Recent ratings
25
25
ECL

Ecolab Inc.

Ecolab Inc. provides water, hygiene, and infection prevention solutions and services worldwide. Its Global Industrial segment offers water treatment and process applications, and cleaning and sanitizing solutions to manufacturing, food and beverage processing, transportation, chemical, metals and mining, power generation, pulp and paper, commercial laundry, petroleum, and petrochemical industries. The company's Global Institutional & Specialty segment provides specialized cleaning and sanitizing products to the foodservice, hospitality, lodging, government and education, and retail industries. Its Global Healthcare & Life Sciences segment offers specialized cleaning and sanitizing products to the healthcare, personal care, and pharmaceutical industries, such as infection prevention and surgical solutions, and end-to-end cleaning and contamination control solutions under the Ecolab, Microtek, and Anios brand names. The company's Other segment offers pest elimination services to detect, eliminate, and prevent pests, such as rodents and insects in restaurants, food and beverage processors, educational and healthcare facilities, hotels, quick service restaurant and grocery operations, and other institutional and commercial customers. This segment also provides colloidal silica for binding and polishing applications in semiconductor, catalyst, and aerospace component manufacturing, as well as chemical industries; and products and services that manage wash process through custom designed programs, premium products, dispensing equipment, water and energy management, and reduction, as well as real time data management. It sells its products through field sales and corporate account personnel, distributors, and dealers. The company was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota.

ELF

e.l.f. Beauty Inc.

e.l.f. Beauty, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides cosmetic and skin care products under the e.l.f., W3LL PEOPLE, and Keys Soulcare brand names worldwide. The company offers eye, lip, face, and skin care products. It sells its products through national and international retailers and direct-to-consumer channels, which include e-commerce platforms in the United States; and internationally primarily through distributors. The company was formerly known as J.A. Cosmetics Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to e.l.f. Beauty, Inc. in April 2016. e.l.f. Beauty, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.

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