ECOLAB INC. vs Yatsen Holding Limited, two Household Products stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where ECL and YSG diverge most: on revenue growth, ECL reads +5.0% and YSG reads -5.8%; on operating margin, ECL reads 15.3% and YSG reads -4.3%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. What ECL's price implies is a somewhat stretched bet versus history (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | ECL | YSG |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $274.24 | $3.63 |
| Market cap | $77.8B | $6.8B |
| Sector | Household Products | Household Products |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| P/E | 37.1 | — |
| P/B | 7.76 | 15.70 |
| P/S | 4.73 | 11.00 |
| EV/EBITDA | 26.4 | — |
| Revenue growth | +5.0% | -5.8% |
| Gross margin | — | 78.2% |
| Operating margin | 15.3% | -4.3% |
| Net margin | 12.8% | -1.9% |
| Return on equity | 21.0% | -2.7% |
| Return on assets | 8.4% | -2.1% |
| Return on invested capital | 18.9% | -4.9% |
| FCF yield | 2.4% | -0.3% |
| Dividend yield | 1.0% | — |
| Debt / equity | 0.16 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 0.99 | 3.63 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 4.58 | 4.50 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 6 / 9 | 5 / 9 |
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