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

228.05 1.71 +0.76%
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) Operating margin

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Danaher Corporation's operating margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 20.4%, up 1.3 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (19.1%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 15.0% (fiscal 2015) to 28.3% (fiscal 2022); the current reading is higher than 64% of that period. That is above the Diagnostics & Research industry median of −5.68% 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 19.1% (1.28)
FY2024 20.4% (1.40)
FY2023 21.8% (6.52)
FY2022 28.3% 2.58
FY2021 25.7% 6.72
FY2020 19.0% 0.74
FY2019 18.3% 0.33
FY2018 17.9% 1.34
FY2017 16.6% 0.38
FY2016 16.2% 1.22

Quarterly newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
Sep 2026 19.0% 1.01
Jun 2026 18.0% (4.59)
Mar 2026 22.6% 0.61
Dec 2025 22.0% 2.91
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 15.0% High 28.3%
Ten-year median 19.0%
Current reading's percentile 65

Operating margin against peers

Company Operating margin
IDXX IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. compare 32.3%
MTD Mettler-Toledo International, Inc. compare 28.4%
A Agilent Technologies, Inc. compare 22.2%
ILMN Illumina, Inc. compare 21.2%
DHR Danaher Corporation 20.4%
TMO Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. compare 17.9%
IQV IQVIA Holdings Inc. compare 12.8%
WAT Waters Corporation compare 4.73%
NTRA Natera, Inc. compare −8.95%
Diagnostics & Research industry median −5.68%
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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