(VIANEWS) – Shares of Charles River Laboratories (NYSE: CRL) dropped 9.08% to $185.32 at 14:52 EST on Tuesday, after three consecutive sessions in a row of gains. NYSE is sliding 1.47% to $15,376.90, following the last session’s upward trend. This seems, as yet, an all-around bearish trend trading session today.
Charles River Laboratories’s last close was $203.83, 32.3% below its 52-week high of $301.10.
About Charles River Laboratories
Charles River Laboratories International, Inc., a non-clinical contract research organization, provides drug discovery, non-clinical development, and safety testing services in the United States, Europe, Canada, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Research Models and Services (RMS), Discovery and Safety Assessment (DSA), and Manufacturing Solutions (Manufacturing). The RMS segment produces and sells rodent research model strains and purpose-bred rats and mice for use by researchers. This segment also provides a range of services to assist its clients in supporting the use of research models in research and screening non-clinical drug candidates, including research models, genetically engineered models and services, insourcing solutions, and research animal diagnostic services. The DSA segment offers early and in vivo discovery services for the identification and validation of novel targets, chemical compounds, and antibodies through delivery of non-clinical drug and therapeutic candidates ready for safety assessment; and safety assessment services, such as toxicology, pathology, safety pharmacology, bioanalysis, drug metabolism, and pharmacokinetics services. The Manufacturing segment provides in vitro methods for conventional and rapid quality control testing of sterile and non-sterile pharmaceuticals and consumer products. This segment also offers specialized testing of biologics that are outsourced by pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies; and avian vaccine services that provide specific-pathogen-free (SPF) fertile chicken eggs, SPF chickens, and diagnostic products used to manufacture vaccines. The company also provides contract vivarium operation services to biopharmaceutical clients. Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Charles River Laboratories has a trailing twelve months EPS of $9.62.
PE Ratio
Charles River Laboratories has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 19.26. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $19.26 for every dollar of annual earnings.
The company’s return on equity, which measures the profitability of a business relative to shareholder’s equity, for the twelve trailing months is 17.54%.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
Charles River Laboratories’s EBITDA is 45.2.
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