Currently, there are 715.60M common shares owned by the public and among those 652.19M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -3.90% and 2.19% over the past three months. DHR shares are trading -21.69% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -15.98% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $171.00 and touched a high of $281.70 over the same period. DHR has an average intraday trading volume of 3.83 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -3.31%, -1.72%, and -12.25% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Danaher Corp (NYSE: DHR) shares accounts for 81.45% of the company’s 715.60M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $138.02B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.74. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 37.39, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $5.16. The company has a PEG of 4.57 and a Quick Ratio of 1.05 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.35. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 2.82% over the week and 2.41% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 2.94%, and 11.21% over the next financial year. EPS should shrink at an annualized rate of 8.19% over the next five years, compared to 9.03% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the DHR, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Scotiabank stated their Sector Outperform rating for the stock in a research note on July 11, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $275. Barclays coverage for the Danaher Corp (DHR) stock in a research note released on April 10, 2025 offered a Overweight rating with a price target of $205. Goldman was of a view on March 21, 2025 that the stock is Buy, while Stifel gave the stock Buy rating on March 14, 2025, issuing a price target of $260. Raymond James on their part issued Mkt Perform rating on February 03, 2025.
