Quest Diagnostics Incorporated

DGX Healthcare Diagnostics & Research

Quest Diagnostics Incorporated’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $11.0 billion, up 11.8% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 10.2%, EPS grew 14.7%, free cash flow grew 5.28% and total debt was flat, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Member of the S&P 500; dividend growth for ten consecutive years.

235.00 4.15 −1.74%
Market cap
$26.4B
P/E
24.6×
Fwd P/E
20.8×
Dividend yield
1.44%
F-score
8/9
Altman Z
3.15
Beneish M
−2.65
Dividend safety
85/100

Quest Diagnostics Incorporated (DGX) Operating margin

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Quest Diagnostics Incorporated's operating margin over the twelve months to 30 June 2026 was 14.1%, down 0.0 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (14.1%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 13.6% (fiscal 2024) to 22.1% (fiscal 2021); the current reading is higher than 27% of that period. That is above the Diagnostics & Research industry median of −8.57% and above the Healthcare sector median of 0.00%.

Operating margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
FY2025 14.1% 0.47
FY2024 13.6% (0.01)
FY2023 13.6% (0.81)
FY2022 14.5% (7.62)
FY2021 22.1% 1.18
FY2020 20.9% 4.96
FY2019 15.9% 1.31
FY2018 14.6% (1.12)
FY2017 15.7% (1.96)
FY2016 17.7% (0.97)

Quarterly newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
Jun 2026 15.1% 1.30
Mar 2026 13.8% 0.02
Dec 2025 13.8% 0.05
Sep 2025 13.7% (2.15)
42 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 13.6% High 22.1%
Ten-year median 15.7%
Current reading's percentile 29

Operating margin against peers

Company Operating margin
IDXX IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. compare 32.0%
MTD Mettler-Toledo International, Inc. compare 28.4%
MEDP Medpace Holdings, Inc. compare 21.0%
ILMN Illumina, Inc. compare 19.7%
DGX Quest Diagnostics Incorporated 14.1%
RVTY Revvity Inc. compare 12.3%
LH Labcorp Holdings Inc. compare 10.4%
WAT Waters Corporation compare 7.10%
GH Guardant Health, Inc. compare −39.8%
Diagnostics & Research industry median −8.57%
Healthcare sector median 0.00%
Market median 0.00%

What Operating margin is

EBIT Margin tells an investor how much operating profit, before interest and taxes, a company keeps from each unit of revenue.

EBIT ÷ Revenue

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