Mettler-Toledo International (MTD)

• Market cap: $27.9B
• 1 day: 0.17%
• 5 days: 4.22%
• 1 month: 8.26%
• 3 months: 8.33%
• 6 months: -0.19%
• Year to date: -2.01%
• 1 year: 12.1%
• 5 years: -6.56%
• 10 years: 236.71%
• 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 27%, China about 16% and the rest of the world about 20%.

Employees: 18,100