Mettler-Toledo International
About: Mettler-Toledo supplies weighing and precision instruments to customers in the life sciences (around 55% of sales), industrial (around 39%), and food retail (around 6%) 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 26%, China about 19% and the rest of the world about 18%.
Employees: 17,300
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2024 Q3 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
67% more funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 3 [Q2] → 5 (+2) [Q3]
25% more call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $68.5M | Put options by funds: $55M
8% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 64 | Existing positions closed: 59
2% more capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $28.4B [Q2] → $29B (+$620M) [Q3]
1% less funds holding
Funds holding: 779 [Q2] → 775 (-4) [Q3]
10% less repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 258 | Existing positions reduced: 286
3.94% less ownership
Funds ownership: 95.04% [Q2] → 91.09% (-3.94%) [Q3]
Research analyst outlook
5 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
5 analyst ratings
Evercore ISI Group Vijay Kumar 65% 1-year accuracy 30 / 46 met price target | 12%upside $1,450 | Outperform Upgraded | 2 Jan 2025 |
Citigroup Patrick Donnelly 47% 1-year accuracy 15 / 32 met price target | 0%upside $1,300 | Neutral Upgraded | 11 Dec 2024 |
Wells Fargo Brandon Couillard 44% 1-year accuracy 8 / 18 met price target | 4%upside $1,350 | Equal-Weight Maintained | 11 Nov 2024 |
Stifel Daniel Arias 11% 1-year accuracy 2 / 18 met price target | 12%upside $1,450 | Buy Maintained | 11 Nov 2024 |
Baird Catherine Schulte 33% 1-year accuracy 7 / 21 met price target | 1%upside $1,310 | Neutral Maintained | 11 Nov 2024 |