How to buy Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO) stocks

Thermo Fisher Scientific is a diagnostics & research business based in the US. Thermo Fisher Scientific shares (TMO) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars.

Its last market close was $524.05 – a decrease of 0.54% over the previous week. Thermo Fisher Scientific employs 122,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $42.4 billion.

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Thermo Fisher Scientific stock price (NYSE: TMO)

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Thermo Fisher Scientific stocks at a glance

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Information last updated 2024-12-19.

Latest market close	$524.05
52-week range	$492.93 - $627.02
50-day moving average more info button	$549.19
200-day moving average more info button	$575.02
Wall St. target price	$652.08
PE ratio more info button	32.3624
Dividend yield more info button	$1.52 (0.3%)
Earnings per share (TTM) more info button	$15.95

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Thermo Fisher Scientific price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $516.69 from 2024-12-19

1 week (2024-12-13)	-1.94%
1 month (2024-11-21)	0.11%
3 months (2024-09-20)	-15.81%
6 months (2024-06-21)	-8.49%

1 year (2023-12-21)	-1.87%
2 years (2022-12-21)	-3.78%
3 years (2021-12-21)	640.4558
5 years (2019-12-20)	60.05%

Is Thermo Fisher Scientific stock undervalued or overvalued?

Valuing Thermo Fisher Scientific stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Thermo Fisher Scientific's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Thermo Fisher Scientific's P/E ratio

Thermo Fisher Scientific's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 32x. In other words, Thermo Fisher Scientific shares trade at around 32x recent earnings.

That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the stock or simply that they're over-valued.

Thermo Fisher Scientific's PEG ratio

Thermo Fisher Scientific's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.9688. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the stocks offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the stocks offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Thermo Fisher Scientific's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the stock prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Thermo Fisher Scientific's EBITDA

Thermo Fisher Scientific's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $10.6 billion.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Thermo Fisher Scientific's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Thermo Fisher Scientific financials

Revenue TTM	$42.4 billion
Operating margin TTM	18.06%
Gross profit TTM	$19 billion
Return on assets TTM	4.67%
Return on equity TTM	12.94%
Profit margin	14.48%
Book value	$128.08
Market Capitalization more info button	$197.4 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Thermo Fisher Scientific stock dividends

Dividend payout ratio: 7.28% of net profits

Recently Thermo Fisher Scientific has paid out, on average, around 0% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Thermo Fisher Scientific shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Thermo Fisher Scientific's case, that would currently equate to about $1.52 per share.

While Thermo Fisher Scientific's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that Thermo Fisher Scientific is investing more in its future growth.

Thermo Fisher Scientific's most recent dividend payout was on 14 January 2025. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their stocks by 12 December 2024 (the "ex-dividend date").

Have Thermo Fisher Scientific's stocks ever split?

Thermo Fisher Scientific's stocks were split on a 3:2 basis on 5 June 1996 . So if you had owned 2 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 3 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Thermo Fisher Scientific stocks – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 33.3% lower stock price could have impacted the market appetite for Thermo Fisher Scientific stocks, which in turn could have impacted Thermo Fisher Scientific's stock price.

Thermo Fisher Scientific stock price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Thermo Fisher Scientific's stocks have ranged in value from as little as $492.9336 up to $627.0151. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta."

Beta is a measure of a stocks volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Thermo Fisher Scientific's is 0.792. This would suggest that Thermo Fisher Scientific's stocks are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Thermo Fisher Scientific overview

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. provides life sciences solutions, analytical instruments, specialty diagnostics, and laboratory products and biopharma services in the North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and internationally. The company's Life Sciences Solutions segment offers reagents, instruments, and consumables for biological and medical research, discovery, and production of drugs and vaccines, as well as diagnosis of infections and diseases; and solutions include biosciences, genetic sciences, and bio production to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, agricultural, clinical, healthcare, academic, and government markets. Its Analytical Instruments segment provides instruments, consumables, software, and services for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, academic, government, environmental, and other research and industrial markets, as well as clinical laboratories. The company's Specialty Diagnostics segment offers liquid, ready-to-use, and lyophilized immunodiagnostic reagent kits, as well as calibrators, controls, protein detection assays, and instruments; immunodiagnostics develops, manufactures and markets complete bloodtest systems to support the clinical diagnosis and monitoring of allergy, asthma and autoimmune diseases; dehydrated and prepared culture media, collection and transport systems, instrumentation, and consumables; human leukocyte antigen typing and testing for organ transplant market; and healthcare products. Its Laboratory Products and Biopharma Services segment provides laboratory products, research and safety market channel, and pharma services and clinical research. It offers products and services through a direct sales force, customer-service professionals, electronic commerce, and third-party distributors under Thermo Scientific; Applied Biosystems; Invitrogen; Fisher Scientific; Unity Lab Services; and Patheon and PPD.

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Frequently asked questions

What percentage of Thermo Fisher Scientific is owned by insiders or institutions?
Currently 0.174% of Thermo Fisher Scientific stocks are held by insiders and 90.911% by institutions. How many people work for Thermo Fisher Scientific?
Latest data suggests 122,000 work at Thermo Fisher Scientific. When does the fiscal year end for Thermo Fisher Scientific?
Thermo Fisher Scientific's fiscal year ends in December. Where is Thermo Fisher Scientific based?
Thermo Fisher Scientific's address is: 168 Third Avenue, Waltham, MA, United States, 02451 What is Thermo Fisher Scientific's ISIN number?
Thermo Fisher Scientific's international securities identification number is: US8835561023 What is Thermo Fisher Scientific's CUSIP number?
Thermo Fisher Scientific's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 883556201

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