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

228.96 2.62 +1.16%
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) Gross margin

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Danaher Corporation's gross margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 58.6%, down 0.5 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (59.1%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 53.8% (fiscal 2015) to 61.4% (fiscal 2021); the current reading is higher than 73% of that period. That is above the Diagnostics & Research industry median of 48.3% and above the Healthcare sector median of 53.9%.

Gross margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Gross margin Change (points)
FY2025 59.1% (0.39)
FY2024 59.5% 0.76
FY2023 58.7% (2.02)
FY2022 60.8% (0.68)
FY2021 61.4% 5.46
FY2020 56.0% 0.24
FY2019 55.7% (0.01)
FY2018 55.8% 0.52
FY2017 55.2% (0.06)
FY2016 55.3% 1.45

Quarterly newest first

Period Gross margin Change (points)
Sep 2026 58.5% 0.90
Jun 2026 57.6% (2.70)
Mar 2026 60.3% 2.34
Dec 2025 58.0% (0.20)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 53.8% High 61.4%
Ten-year median 56.0%
Current reading's percentile 56

Gross margin against peers

Company Gross margin
ILMN Illumina, Inc. compare 67.9%
IDXX IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. compare 62.7%
MTD Mettler-Toledo International, Inc. compare 60.3%
DHR Danaher Corporation 58.6%
A Agilent Technologies, Inc. compare 53.8%
WAT Waters Corporation compare 49.5%
TMO Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. compare 41.1%
IQV IQVIA Holdings Inc. compare 33.1%
NTRA Natera, Inc. compare 0.00%
Diagnostics & Research industry median 48.3%
Healthcare sector median 53.9%
Market median 45.1%

What Gross margin is

Gross Margin tells an investor how much of each sale a company keeps after paying the direct costs of making or buying what it sells.

Gross Profit ÷ Revenue

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