ECOLAB INC. vs INTERPARFUMS, INC., two Household Products stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where ECL and IPAR diverge most: on implied growth (priced in), ECL reads +21.4% and IPAR reads +6.8%; on dividend yield, ECL reads 1.0% and IPAR reads 2.9%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's ECL price has a different growth bar priced in than IPAR (+21.4% implied for ECL vs +6.8% for IPAR); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What ECL's price implies is a somewhat stretched bet versus history (whole-company basis). What IPAR's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | ECL | IPAR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $276.23 | $111.84 |
| Market cap | $78.0B | $3.6B |
| Sector | Household Products | Household Products |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +21.4% | +6.8% |
| P/E | 37.1 | 21.4 |
| P/B | 7.73 | 3.28 |
| P/S | 4.63 | 2.39 |
| EV/EBITDA | 24.4 | 13.1 |
| Revenue growth | +7.2% | +3.0% |
| Gross margin | — | 65.5% |
| Operating margin | 17.2% | 14.3% |
| Net margin | 12.6% | 11.2% |
| Return on equity | 21.0% | 15.4% |
| Return on assets | 7.1% | 11.3% |
| Return on invested capital | 19.5% | 16.6% |
| FCF yield | 2.4% | 6.9% |
| Dividend yield | 1.0% | 2.9% |
| Debt / equity | 0.13 | 0.13 |
| Current ratio | 1.84 | 3.31 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 3.83 | 7.82 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 6 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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