Mettler-Toledo International
About: Mettler-Toledo supplies weighing and precision instruments to customers in the life sciences (around 55% of sales), industrial (around 40%), and food retail (around 5%) industries. Its products include laboratory and retail scales, pipettes, pH meters, thermal analysis equipment, titrators, metal detectors, and X-ray analyzers. Mettler leads the market for weighing instrumentation and controls more than 50% of the market for lab balances. The business is geographically diversified, with the Americas accounting for about 37% of sales, Europe about 28%, China about 16% and the rest of the world about 19%.
Employees: 17,300
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2025 Q1 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
470% more call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $211M | Put options by funds: $36.9M
21% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 74 | Existing positions closed: 61
2.0% more ownership
Funds ownership: 93.33% [Q4 2024] → 95.34% (+2.0%) [Q1 2025]
0% more funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 1 [Q4 2024] → 1 (+0) [Q1 2025]
0% less funds holding
Funds holding: 799 [Q4 2024] → 798 (-1) [Q1 2025]
4% less capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $24.5B [Q4 2024] → $23.4B (-$1.01B) [Q1 2025]
14% less repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 266 | Existing positions reduced: 309
Research analyst outlook
7 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
7 analyst ratings
Baird Catherine Schulte | 4%downside $1,210 | Neutral Maintained | 28 Jul 2025 |
Evercore ISI Group Vijay Kumar | 1%upside $1,280 | Outperform Maintained | 8 Jul 2025 |
B of A Securities Derik De Bruin | 0%downside $1,260 | Neutral Maintained | 26 Jun 2025 |
Barclays Luke Sergott | 5%upside $1,325 | Overweight Initiated | 24 Jun 2025 |
UBS Dan Leonard | 7%upside $1,350 | Buy Upgraded | 20 May 2025 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 5 articles about MTD published over the past 30 days
