After-hours trading runs 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET.
ECL last traded at $276.28 after hours, up $0.10 (0.04%) from its regular-session close of $276.18.
📅 ECL is expected to report earnings around Oct 27, 2026 before the open (estimated), with an estimated EPS of $2.18. ECL earnings details →
Over the past 5 years, ECL has had 4 qualifying gap events (gaps of 5% or more at the open) — 2 gap-ups and 2 gap-downs. Gap-ups averaged +7%, 50% have fully filled, median time to fill 38 trading days. Gap-downs averaged -7.7%, 50% have fully filled, median time to fill 20 trading days. Most recent: a +8.8% gap up on Feb 11, 2025, which filled in 38 trading days. Average 20-trading-day return after a ECL gap up: +0.4%. After a gap down: +0.1%.
| 1 day | 1 week | 2 week | 4 week | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| fills 25% | 50% | 50% | 50% | 50% |
| fills 50% | 0% | 50% | 50% | 50% |
| fills 75% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| fills 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 1 day | 1 week | 2 week | 4 week | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| fills 25% | 50% | 50% | 50% | 50% |
| fills 50% | 50% | 50% | 50% | 50% |
| fills 75% | 0% | 50% | 50% | 50% |
| fills 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| Date | Gap From | Gap % | Status | Days to 50% | Days to Fill | % of Gap Filled After | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 day | 1 week | 2 week | 4 week | ||||||
| 2025-02-11 | $245.94 | +8.76% | Filled | 2d | 38d | 32% | 57% | 57% | 59% |
| 2024-07-30 | $247.92 | -10.43% | Filled | 1d | 20d | 54% | 76% | 76% | 100% |
| 2024-02-13 | $202.98 | +5.26% | Open | — | — | 9% | 9% | 9% | 9% |
| 2022-01-21 | $213.17 | -5.01% | Open | — | — | 9% | 9% | 9% | 9% |
Ecolab (ECL) is trading at $276.28 after hours, up $0.10 (0.04%) from its regular-session close of $276.18.
ECL is up 0.04% in after-hours trading. Moves in this session almost always follow something released after the 4:00 PM ET close — an earnings report, guidance, a filing, or news — and trade on far thinner volume than the regular session, so the size of the move can overstate what the market will settle on at the next open.
After-hours trading in ECL on the NYSE runs from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM ET on trading days, immediately after the regular session closes. Not every broker offers the full window, and liquidity thins sharply after about 6:30 PM ET.
An after-hours move that carries into the next session becomes an opening gap, and ECL's gap history is the best guide to what happens next: 50% of ECL gap-ups have fully filled, and 50% of gap-downs have filled over the past 5 years. Fill rates this high mean a large after-hours move is more often faded than extended.
ECL is expected to report earnings around Oct 27, 2026 before the open (estimated), with an estimated EPS of $2.18. Earnings are the most common cause of a large after-hours move, since most companies report after the close.