Ecolab Boosts Plan To Buy Back Shares

It's comforting for growth-and-income investors when they can count on a regular dividend, quarter after quarter. Ecolab (ECL) has been dishing out a payout to owners of common shares for 74 years in a row. So when a firm says it will also buy back even more of its own shares, that indicates strong confidence in its financial health and position in the marketplace. On May 5, the global giant in sanitizing, cleaning and infection prevention