Mettler-Toledo International (MTD)

• Market cap: $22.3B
• 1 day: 0.50%
• 5 days: 2.69%
• 1 month: -9.34%
• 3 months: -21.54%
• 6 months: -17.79%
• Year to date: -12.30%
• 1 year: -12.94%
• 5 years: 48.70%
• 10 years: 237.71%
• 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 28%, China about 16% and the rest of the world about 19%.

Employees: 17,300

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

192% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $72.8M | Put options by funds: $24.9M

41% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 99 | Existing positions closed: 70

3.42% more ownership

Funds ownership: 89.89% [Q3] → 93.31% (+3.42%) [Q4]

3% more funds holding

Funds holding: 776 [Q3] → 796 (+20) [Q4]

10% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 288 | Existing positions reduced: 262

15% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $28.6B [Q3] → $24.4B (-$4.17B) [Q4]

80% less funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 5 [Q3] → 1 (-4) [Q4]

Research analyst outlook

4 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $1,034 3% downside
• Avg. target: $1,259 18% upside
• High target: $1,475 38% upside

4 analyst ratings

• positive: 2 50%
• neutral: 2 50%
• negative: 0 0%

Baird Catherine Schulte 5% 1-year accuracy 1 / 19 met price target	3% downside $1,034	Neutral Maintained	22 Apr 2025
Wells Fargo Brandon Couillard 8% 1-year accuracy 2 / 25 met price target	5% upside $1,125	Equal-Weight Maintained	17 Apr 2025
Citigroup Patrick Donnelly 27% 1-year accuracy 8 / 30 met price target	31% upside $1,400	Buy Upgraded	7 Apr 2025
Evercore ISI Group Vijay Kumar 30% 1-year accuracy 12 / 40 met price target	38% upside $1,475	Outperform Maintained	10 Feb 2025