Mettler-Toledo International (MTD)

• Market cap: $28.4B
• 1 day: 0.16%
• 5 days: -1.76%
• 1 month: -0.02%
• 3 months: 9%
• 6 months: 20.69%
• Year to date: 13.75%
• 1 year: 11.37%
• 5 years: 22.85%
• 10 years: 318.2%
• Sector: Healthcare
• Industry: Diagnostics & Research

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