Danaher Corporation · DHR · FY2025 Q2 · Calendar Q3 2025

Danaher raises EPS outlook as bioprocessing demand remains strong

Danaher’s Q2 update supports a constructive view of near-term earnings resilience: strong bioprocessing consumables demand, cost actions and favorable foreign exchange helped drive a higher EPS outlook. The evidence is tempered by tariff-related equipment delays, China uncertainty and a soft academic funding environment.

Reported Before market openNYSEHealthcare $154.57B market cap
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Reported versus consensus
Reported EPS $1.80 Consensus $1.64
EPS surprise +9.8% Reported versus consensus
Reported revenue $5.94B Consensus $5.84B
Revenue surprise +1.7% Reported versus consensus

Market reaction

prior-close to event-session close
Stock move +1.0% Event window
SPY move +0.0% Same window
Abnormal move +1.0% Stock minus SPY
Volume 1.9× Versus trailing sessions
Subsequent drift +11.7% Up to 20 sessions
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What changed

Management raised full-year adjusted EPS guidance, citing operating performance, cost actions and favorable foreign exchange. Bioprocessing consumables remained a key growth driver, while tariff uncertainty continued to delay equipment orders and the company outlined additional product and precision-medicine initiatives.

Guidance delta

Full-year adjusted EPS guidance was raised to $7.70-$7.80 from the prior $7.60-$7.75 range.

Key takeaways

  • Q2 revenue grew 1.5% to $5.9 billion, while adjusted EPS increased about 5% year over year.
  • Bioprocessing consumables grew at a low-double-digit rate and supported high-single-digit segment growth guidance for the year.
  • Cost actions and favorable foreign exchange contributed roughly $0.15-$0.20 to EPS, while tariff uncertainty continued to delay some equipment orders.

Management priorities

  • Launch additional protein A resins and mass-spectrometry platforms.
  • Expand the Danaher Centers for precision medicine.
  • Continue cost actions while investing in innovation.

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Earnings History

Estimate Beat Miss Match
DHR REVENUE earnings history estimate and actual scatter chart 9 reported fiscal quarters and 4 future estimate-only quarters. Q1 '24 estimate $6B Q1 '24 actual $6B, beat Q2 '24 estimate $6B Q2 '24 actual $6B, beat Q3 '24 estimate $6B Q3 '24 actual $6B, beat Q2 '25 estimate $6B Q2 '25 actual $6B, beat Q3 '25 estimate $6B Q3 '25 actual $6B, beat Q4 '25 estimate $7B Q4 '25 actual $7B, beat Q1 '26 estimate $6B Q1 '26 actual $6B, miss Q2 '26 estimate $6B Q2 '26 actual $6B, beat Q3 '26 estimate $7B Q4 '26 estimate $8B Q1 '27 estimate $7B Q2 '27 estimate $7B
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Analyst Consensus ?

ConsensusBuy43 ratings
Bullish3069.8%
Neutral1227.9%
Bearish12.3%

Analyst 52W Price Targets

$219.81Current
$195Low
$270.74Average
$370High

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Firm-level rating actions

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FirmRatingPrior ratingActionDate
Barclays Overweight OverweightMaintainOct 7, 2026
RBC Capital Outperform OutperformMaintainOct 5, 2026
Guggenheim Buy BuyMaintainOct 1, 2026
Wells Fargo Equal Weight Equal WeightMaintainJul 22, 2026
TD Cowen Buy BuyMaintainJul 22, 2026
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Named analyst price targets

Upside is calculated against the persisted current price $219.81. FMP does not supply a rating on these named-analyst rows.

FirmAnalyst52W targetPrice when postedUpsideDate
RBC CapitalDan Leonard$250$214.06 +13.7%Oct 5, 2026
GuggenheimSubbu Nambi$250$220.34 +13.7%Oct 1, 2026
UBSDouglas Schenkel$250$205.2 +13.7%Sep 9, 2026
Deutsche BankJustin Bowers$240$175.03 +9.2%Jul 22, 2026
RBC CapitalAnalyst unavailable$215$179.14 -2.2%Jul 22, 2026
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Company context

Snapshot as of publication

Danaher Corporation is a diversified global technology and science company that specializes in developing, manufacturing, and distributing a wide array of professional, medical, industrial, and commercial products and services across the world. The organization is structured into three primary operating segments: Life Sciences, Diagnostics, and Environmental & Applied Solutions. Within the Life Sciences segment, Danaher provides advanced instrumentation and solutions crucial for scientific research and development. This encompasses equipment like mass spectrometers, flow cytometry, genomics, lab automation, centrifugation, particle counting and characterization tools, and microscopes, alongside genomics consumables and technologies vital for Gene and Cell Therapy. Additionally, it delivers bioprocess technologies, consumables, and related services, as well as sophisticated filtration, separation, and purification systems.…

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