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. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 5.54%, EPS grew 59.7%, free cash flow grew 15.6% and total debt rose 49.2%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Member of the S&P 500.

228.97 2.53 −1.09%
Market cap
$162.7B
P/E
40.5×
Fwd P/E
29.2×
Dividend yield
0.66%
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
4.52
Beneish M
−2.57
Dividend safety
69/100

Danaher Corporation (DHR) Return on invested capital

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Danaher Corporation's return on invested capital over the twelve months to 30 June 2026 was 4.37%, down 0.1 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (4.42%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 3.86% (fiscal 2015) to 7.45% (fiscal 2022); the current reading is higher than 18% of that period. That is above the Diagnostics & Research industry median of 0.00% and above the Healthcare sector median of 0.00%.

Return on invested capital, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Return on invested capital Change (points)
FY2025 4.42% (0.41)
FY2024 4.83% (0.22)
FY2023 5.05% (2.40)
FY2022 7.45% 1.30
FY2021 6.15% 1.34
FY2020 4.81% (1.60)
FY2019 6.41% 1.27
FY2018 5.14% 0.68
FY2017 4.46% (0.92)
FY2016 5.38% 1.52

Against its own ten years

Low 3.86% High 7.45%
Ten-year median 5.05%
Current reading's percentile 18

Return on invested capital against peers

Company Return on invested capital
IDXX IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. compare 48.9%
MTD Mettler-Toledo International, Inc. compare 35.4%
ILMN Illumina, Inc. compare 17.5%
A Agilent Technologies, Inc. compare 11.1%
IQV IQVIA Holdings Inc. compare 6.80%
TMO Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. compare 5.80%
DHR Danaher Corporation 4.37%
WAT Waters Corporation compare 1.05%
NTRA Natera, Inc. compare −22.3%
Diagnostics & Research industry median 0.00%
Healthcare sector median 0.00%
Market median 0.00%

What Return on invested capital is

Return on Invested Capital shows how much after-tax operating profit a company earns on the money its lenders and shareholders have put in.

TTM: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) (latest quarter) + Long Term Debt (Total) (latest quarter) + Current Part of Debt (latest quarter) − Cash & Short Term Investments (latest quarter)); Annual: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) + Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt − Cash & Short Term Investments)

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