(VIANEWS) - Shares of Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR) dropped 9.03% to $231.37 at 15:09 EST on Tuesday, after four sequential sessions in a row of gains. NYSE is falling 1.47% to $15,376.90, following the last session's upward trend. This seems, as yet, an all-around negative trend exchanging session today.
Danaher Corporation's last close was $254.35, 16.28% below its 52-week high of $303.82.
About Danaher Corporation
Danaher Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets professional, medical, industrial, and commercial products and services worldwide. The Biotechnology segments offers bioprocess technologies, consumables, and services; lab filtration, separation, and purification; lab-scale protein purification and analytical tools; reagents, membranes and services; and healthcare filtration solutions. The Life Sciences segment provides mass spectrometers; flow cytometry, genomics, lab automation, centrifugation, particle counting and characterization; microscopes; genomics consumables; and Gene and Cell Therapy to the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical, food and beverage, medical, and life sciences companies, as well as universities, medical schools and research institutions, and various industrial manufacturers. The Diagnostics segment provides chemistry, immunoassay, microbiology, and automation systems, as well as hematology, molecular, acute care, and pathology diagnostics products. This segment offers clinical instruments, reagents, consumables, software, and services for hospitals, physicians' offices, reference laboratories, and other critical care settings. The Environmental & Applied Solutions segment offers instrumentation, consumables, software, services, and disinfection systems to analyze, treat, and manage ultra-pure, potable, industrial, waste, ground, source, and ocean water in residential, commercial, municipal, industrial, and natural resource applications. It also provides instruments, software, services, and consumables for various color and appearance management, packaging design and quality management, packaging converting, printing, marking, coding, and traceability applications for consumer, pharmaceutical, and industrial products. The company was formerly known as Diversified Mortgage Investors, Inc. and changed its name to Danaher Corporation in 1984. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Washington, the District of Columbia.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Danaher Corporation has a trailing twelve months EPS of $9.66.
PE Ratio
Danaher Corporation has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 23.95. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $23.95 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 15.13%.More news about Danaher Corporation (DHR).