DanaherDHR
About: In 1984, Danaher's founders transformed a real estate organization into an industrial-focused manufacturing company. Then, through a series of mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, Danaher now focuses primarily on manufacturing scientific instruments and consumables in the life sciences and diagnostic industries after the late 2023 divestiture of its environmental and applied solutions group, Veralto.
Employees: 63,000
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2025 Q1 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
120% more call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $1.53B | Put options by funds: $697M
4% more funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 57 [Q4 2024] → 59 (+2) [Q1 2025]
0.31% less ownership
Funds ownership: 79.06% [Q4 2024] → 78.74% (-0.31%) [Q1 2025]
4% less funds holding
Funds holding: 2,281 [Q4 2024] → 2,179 (-102) [Q1 2025]
12% less capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $131B [Q4 2024] → $115B (-$16B) [Q1 2025]
17% less repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 788 | Existing positions reduced: 953
28% less first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 152 | Existing positions closed: 211
Research analyst outlook
7 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
7 analyst ratings
UBS Dan Leonard | 10%upside $225 | Buy Maintained | 23 Jul 2025 |
Wells Fargo Brandon Couillard | 1%upside $205 | Equal-Weight Maintained | 23 Jul 2025 |
Guggenheim Subbu Nambi | 23%upside $250 | Buy Reiterated | 23 Jul 2025 |
Baird Catherine Schulte | 12%upside $229 | Outperform Maintained | 23 Jul 2025 |
Scotiabank Sung Ji Nam | 35%upside $275 | Sector Outperform Upgraded | 11 Jul 2025 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 20 articles about DHR published over the past 30 days









