Mettler-Toledo International (MTD)

• Market cap: $28.1B
• 1 day: -1.4%
• 5 days: -2.28%
• 1 month: -2.9%
• 3 months: -0.27%
• 6 months: 8.48%
• Year to date: -2.7%
• 1 year: 0.64%
• 5 years: 16.3%
• 10 years: 332.76%
• 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