QualityDipStocks / Industrials · Industrial machinery
Danaher DHR
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 4% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen, trading well above our fair value estimate.
- Fair value est.
- $128.40−45%
- Market Value
- $232.53at the price
- Off 52-wk high
- −4%
- Risk vs market
- Lowbeta 0.46
3 bullish · 5 bearish See why
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $232.23
- Fair value est.base case$128.40−44.7%
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$161.91−30.3%
- PriceFri Oct 30 close$232.23you are here
- Market Valueavg paid since Oct 21$232.53+0.1%
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$242.05+4.2%
Fair value estimate
How the range is computed
Ten-year free-cash-flow DCF. Same 10-year free-cash-flow model as the base: discount rate 9.5% ±1 point and growth 3.0% ±2 points. Bear = 10.5% and 1.0%; bull = 8.5% and 5.0% (both fade to 3%). A model estimate from public filings, not a forecast of where the price will go.
Price is above even the bull case.
What the price implies To be worth today’s price, DHR’s free cash flow would need to grow about 14% a year for five years; our estimate uses 3%.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 30 to Oct 30, 252 sessions). Beta = how much DHR moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Moves much less than the market, but its own price swings are 2.3× the S&P 500’s (it moves on its own news).
- Beta vs S&P 500
- 0.46
- Volatility
- 30% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.20
- Correlation QQQ
- 0.07
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 3 of 5
ProfitabilityGross margin of 59%, above the 35% median for the 114 Industrials companies we cover.
ValuationPrice / book of 3.1×, below the 4.4× median for the 134 Industrials companies we cover.
Balance sheetDebt / equity of 0.5×, below the 0.5× median for the 116 Industrials companies we cover.
Top bearish points 5 of 5
ValuationOur DCF fair value estimate is $128.40, 45% below the price.
ProfitabilityOperating margin narrowed to 19.1% in FY2025 from 21.8% in FY2023 (SEC filings).
GrowthSales shrank 3% a year from FY2022 to FY2025.
ValuationEV/EBITDA of 23.6×, above the 16.6× median for the 96 Industrials companies we cover.
QualityDoesn’t pass our quality screen: ROE under 12% and ROIC under 10%.
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on Danaher in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 1, 9:09 PM ET.
Compare with peers
Closest in size in Industrial machinery
All fundamentals
P/E 37.9 · FCF yield 3.5% · ROE 8%
Valuation
- P/E
- 37.9×Industrials median 27.5×
- Price / FCF
- 28.7×
- FCF yield
- 3.5%
- EV / EBITDA
- 23.6×
- Price / sales
- 6.41×
- Price / book
- 3.06×
- Market cap
- $164Bprice × diluted shares
- Enterprise value
- $185B
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $25.6B
- Sales growth, 12 months
- +5.5%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- −2.7%/yrfrom FY2022
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- $6.10
- EPS growth, last FY
- −4.5%
- Net income, 12 months
- $4.3B
- Net income growth
- +24%12 months vs before
Profitability
- Gross margin
- 58.6%
- Operating margin
- 20.4%
- Net margin
- 16.9%
- FCF margin
- 22.4%
- Return on equity
- 8%
- Return on invested capital
- 6%
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $5.7B
- Total debt
- $26.5B
- Net cash
- −$20.8B
- Debt / equity
- 0.49×
- Interest coverage
- 14.5×operating income / interest
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- $5.7B
- FCF growth, 12 months
- +14%
- Dividend yield
- 0.62%$1.0B paid
- Payout ratio
- 23%
- Buybacks, 12 months
- $894M0.5% of market cap
- Share count, 1 year
- −1.0%diluted shares vs a year ago
- Stock-based comp
- $329M
Trailing 12 months to Sep 25, 2026; balance sheet at Sep 25, 2026. From Danaher’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
Valuation details
DCF $128.40 · MV $232.53 · FCF value $199.56
Assumes 3.0% growth for 5 years (revenue grew -2.7% a year FY22–FY25; floored at 3%), fading to 3%; 9.5% discount rate, 3% terminal growth. FCF base $8.10 a share (trailing 12 months to Sep 25, 2026), from the 10-Q filed Oct 21, 2026.
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 58 · 5 days +0.8%
The business
FCF $5.7B · Sales +8%
- Free cash flow, 12 months$5.7B
- Free-cash-flow yield3.4%
- Free-cash-flow margin22%
- Gross margin59%
- Operating margin20%
- Return on invested capital5%
- Return on equity8%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+8%
- Net debt / EBITDA2.7×
Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.
DHR is outside our quality screen
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