Danaher Corp (DHR) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $197.90, with 4.94 million shares of worth about $977.87 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -27.92% during that period and on April 03, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -3.54%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 719.10M shares, out of which, 648.54M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -5.81% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -6.01%. Year-to-date (YTD), DHR shares are showing a performance of -13.79% which decreased to -19.53% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $196.80 but also hit the highest price of $281.70 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Danaher Corp shares is 4.35 million. The stock is currently trading -4.86% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -6.69% for SMA50 and it goes to -18.64% lower than SMA200.
Danaher Corp (NYSE: DHR) currently have 719.10M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 81.36% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $141.59B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.80. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 37.43, while it has posted earnings per share of $5.29 in the same period. Its PEG reads 4.46 and has Quick Ratio of 1.05 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.35. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for DHR, volatility over the week remained 3.05% while standing at 2.44% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 2.24% while it is estimated to increase by 12.38% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 8.39% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 9.03% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Goldman on March 21, 2025 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $260 to it. Coverage by Stifel stated Danaher Corp (DHR) stock as a Buy in their note to investors on March 14, 2025, suggesting a price target of $260 for the stock. Stock get a Buy rating from Guggenheim on December 19, 2024.