Steris
About: Steris is an Ireland-domiciled medical technology company focused on sterilization services and infection prevention. The company is the global leader in contract sterilization services, ensuring the safe delivery of single-use and implantable medical equipment to hospitals around the world. Steris also sells sterilizers, washer-disinfectors, and other decontamination equipment and supplies for use by care provider facilities and in biopharma manufacturing sites. Domiciled in the United States before its inversion to Ireland, the firm derives approximately 70% of its revenue from Healthcare Services, 19% from Applied Sterilization Technologies, or AST, and 11% from life sciences services after the divestment of its dental products business.
Employees: 17,787
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2025 Q1 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
40% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 95 | Existing positions closed: 68
10% more capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $18.8B [Q4 2024] → $20.7B (+$1.86B) [Q1 2025]
4% more repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 289 | Existing positions reduced: 277
1% more funds holding
Funds holding: 755 [Q4 2024] → 762 (+7) [Q1 2025]
0.28% more ownership
Funds ownership: 92.86% [Q4 2024] → 93.14% (+0.28%) [Q1 2025]
9% less call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $8.15M | Put options by funds: $8.91M
43% less funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 7 [Q4 2024] → 4 (-3) [Q1 2025]
Research analyst outlook
4 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
4 analyst ratings
Jefferies David Windley | 9%upside $263 | Hold Initiated | 29 May 2025 |
Morgan Stanley Patrick Wood | 8%upside $260 | Equal-Weight Maintained | 19 May 2025 |
JMP Securities David Turkaly | 16%upside $280 | Market Outperform Maintained | 16 May 2025 |
Stephens & Co. Steven Etoch | 4%upside $250 | Overweight Reiterated | 15 May 2025 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 5 articles about STE published over the past 30 days









