Danaher Corporation

DHR Healthcare Diagnostics & Research

Danaher Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $24.6 billion, up 2.90% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+8.28%
EPS
+36.7%
Free cash flow
+19.1%
Total debt
+44.9%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

229.15 2.81 +1.24%
Market cap
$159.2B
P/E
37.0×
Fwd P/E
36.9×
Dividend yield
0.67%
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
4.52
Beneish M
−2.57
Dividend safety
69/100

Danaher Corporation (DHR) Free cash flow margin

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Danaher Corporation's free cash flow margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 22.5%, up 0.9 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (21.5%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 17.4% (fiscal 2016) to 28.8% (fiscal 2021); the current reading is higher than 45% of that period. That is above the Diagnostics & Research industry median of 0.00% and above the Healthcare sector median of 0.00%.

Free cash flow margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Free cash flow margin Change (points)
FY2025 21.5% (0.70)
FY2024 22.2% (2.01)
FY2023 24.3% (3.56)
FY2022 27.8% (0.94)
FY2021 28.8% 4.43
FY2020 24.3% 5.73
FY2019 18.6% (1.61)
FY2018 20.2% 1.26
FY2017 18.9% 1.51
FY2016 17.4% (5.77)

Against its own ten years

Low 17.4% High 28.8%
Ten-year median 22.2%
Current reading's percentile 45

Free cash flow margin against peers

Company Free cash flow margin
IDXX IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. compare 27.9%
ILMN Illumina, Inc. compare 23.3%
DHR Danaher Corporation 22.5%
MTD Mettler-Toledo International, Inc. compare 20.9%
A Agilent Technologies, Inc. compare 17.2%
TMO Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. compare 16.1%
IQV IQVIA Holdings Inc. compare 12.0%
WAT Waters Corporation compare 4.60%
NTRA Natera, Inc. compare 1.80%
Diagnostics & Research industry median 0.00%
Healthcare sector median 0.00%
Market median 0.00%

What Free cash flow margin is

Free Cash Flow Margin tells an investor how much of each sale turns into cash the company keeps after paying for investment in its assets.

(Operating Cash Flow + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) + Intangible Assets Change (Net)) ÷ Revenue

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