How to buy Thermo Fisher Scientific stock | $608.23

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc is a diagnostics & research business based in the US. Thermo Fisher Scientific shares (TMO) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Thermo Fisher Scientific employs 80,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around 0.00.

Thermo Fisher Scientific stock price (NYSE: TMO)

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Thermo Fisher Scientific shares at a glance

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Information last updated 2021-09-18.

Latest market close	$608.23
52-week range	$411.95 - $609.30
50-day moving average	$552.54
200-day moving average	$495.08
Wall St. target price	$581.02
PE ratio	27.6411
Dividend yield	$0.96 (0.17%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	$21.59

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Thermo Fisher Scientific price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $608.23 from 2021-09-23

1 week (2021-09-17)	1.92%
1 month (2021-08-24)	10.49%
3 months (2021-06-24)	22.79%
6 months (2021-03-24)	36.57%

1 year (2020-09-24)	45.46%
2 years (2019-09-24)	113.29%
3 years (2018-09-24)	151.18%
5 years (2016-09-23)	285.79%

Is Thermo Fisher Scientific under- or over-valued?

Valuing Thermo Fisher Scientific stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Thermo Fisher Scientific's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Thermo Fisher Scientific's P/E ratio

Thermo Fisher Scientific's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 28x. In other words, Thermo Fisher Scientific shares trade at around 28x recent earnings.

That's comparable to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29).

Thermo Fisher Scientific's PEG ratio

Thermo Fisher Scientific's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 7.3703. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Thermo Fisher Scientific's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Thermo Fisher Scientific's EBITDA

Thermo Fisher Scientific's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $13.3 billion.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Thermo Fisher Scientific's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Thermo Fisher Scientific financials

Revenue TTM	$38.3 billion
Operating margin TTM	28.37%
Gross profit TTM	$16 billion
Return on assets TTM	10.49%
Return on equity TTM	25.76%
Profit margin	22.47%
Book value	$93.68
Market capitalisation	$234.8 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Thermo Fisher Scientific shares

There are currently 2.7 million Thermo Fisher Scientific shares held short by investors – that's known as Thermo Fisher Scientific's "short interest". This figure is 9.4% down from 3.0 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Thermo Fisher Scientific shares can be evaluated.

Thermo Fisher Scientific's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Thermo Fisher Scientific's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Thermo Fisher Scientific shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Thermo Fisher Scientific shares traded daily (recently around 904467.34006734). Thermo Fisher Scientific's SIR currently stands at 2.97. In other words for every 100,000 Thermo Fisher Scientific shares traded daily on the market, roughly 2970 shares are currently held short.

However Thermo Fisher Scientific's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Thermo Fisher Scientific shares, or, against the total number of tradable Thermo Fisher Scientific shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Thermo Fisher Scientific's short interest could be expressed as 0.01% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Thermo Fisher Scientific shares in existence, roughly 10 shares are currently held short) or 0.0068% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Thermo Fisher Scientific shares, roughly 7 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Find out more about how you can short Thermo Fisher Scientific stock.

Thermo Fisher Scientific's environmental, social and governance track record

Environmental, social and governance (known as ESG) criteria are a set of three factors used to measure the sustainability and social impact of companies like Thermo Fisher Scientific.

When it comes to ESG scores, lower is better, and lower scores are generally associated with lower risk for would-be investors.

Thermo Fisher Scientific's total ESG risk score

Total ESG risk: 14.69

Socially conscious investors use ESG scores to screen how an investment aligns with their worldview, and Thermo Fisher Scientific's overall score of 14.69 (as at 12/31/2018) is excellent – landing it in it in the 15th percentile of companies rated in the same sector.

ESG scores are increasingly used to estimate the level of risk a company like Thermo Fisher Scientific is exposed to within the areas of "environmental" (carbon footprint, resource use etc.), "social" (health and safety, human rights etc.), and "governance" (anti-corruption, tax transparency etc.).

Thermo Fisher Scientific's environmental score

Environmental score: 2.11/100

Thermo Fisher Scientific's environmental score of 2.11 puts it squarely in the 1st percentile of companies rated in the same sector. This could suggest that Thermo Fisher Scientific is a leader in its sector terms of its environmental impact, and exposed to a lower level of risk.

Thermo Fisher Scientific's social score

Social score: 6.69/100

Thermo Fisher Scientific's social score of 6.69 puts it squarely in the 1st percentile of companies rated in the same sector. This could suggest that Thermo Fisher Scientific is a leader in its sector when it comes to taking good care of its workforce and the communities it impacts.

Thermo Fisher Scientific's governance score

Governance score: 3.38/100

Thermo Fisher Scientific's governance score puts it squarely in the 1st percentile of companies rated in the same sector. That could suggest that Thermo Fisher Scientific is a leader in its sector when it comes to responsible management and strategy, and exposed to a lower level of risk.

Thermo Fisher Scientific's controversy score

Controversy score: 2/5

ESG scores also evaluate any incidences of controversy that a company has been involved in. Thermo Fisher Scientific scored a 2 out of 5 for controversy – the second-highest score possible, reflecting that Thermo Fisher Scientific has, for the most part, managed to keep its nose clean.

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) summary

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc was last rated for ESG on: 2019-01-01.

Total ESG score	14.69
Total ESG percentile	14.7
Environmental score	2.11
Environmental score percentile	1
Social score	6.69
Social score percentile	1
Governance score	3.38
Governance score percentile	1
Level of controversy	2

Thermo Fisher Scientific share dividends

Dividend payout ratio: 3.92% of net profits

Recently Thermo Fisher Scientific has paid out, on average, around 3.92% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0.19% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Thermo Fisher Scientific shareholders could enjoy a 0.19% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Thermo Fisher Scientific's case, that would currently equate to about $0.96 per share.

While Thermo Fisher Scientific's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that Thermo Fisher Scientific is investing more in its future growth.

Thermo Fisher Scientific's most recent dividend payout was on 14 October 2021. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 13 September 2021 (the "ex-dividend date").

Have Thermo Fisher Scientific's shares ever split?

Thermo Fisher Scientific's shares were split on a 3:2 basis on 5 June 1996. So if you had owned 2 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 3 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Thermo Fisher Scientific shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 33.3% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Thermo Fisher Scientific shares which in turn could have impacted Thermo Fisher Scientific's share price.

Thermo Fisher Scientific share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Thermo Fisher Scientific's shares have ranged in value from as little as $411.9471 up to $609.3. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Thermo Fisher Scientific's is 0.75. This would suggest that Thermo Fisher Scientific's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Thermo Fisher Scientific overview

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. offers life sciences solutions, analytical instruments, specialty diagnostics, and laboratory products and service worldwide. The company's Life Sciences Solutions segment offers reagents, instruments, and consumables for biological and medical research, discovery, and production of drugs and vaccines, as well as diagnosis of infections and diseases to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, agricultural, clinical, healthcare, academic, and government markets. Its Analytical Instruments segment provides instruments, consumables, software, and services for use in laboratory, on production line, and in field for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, academic, government, environmental, and other research and industrial markets, as well as clinical laboratories. The company's Specialty Diagnostics segment offers liquid, ready-to-use, and lyophilized immunodiagnostic reagent kits, as well as calibrators, controls, and calibration verification fluids; ImmunoCAP for allergy and asthma tests, and EliA for autoimmunity tests; dehydrated and prepared culture media, collection and transport systems, instrumentation, and consumables; human leukocyte antigen typing and testing for organ transplant market; and healthcare products. Its Laboratory Products and Services segment provides laboratory refrigerators and freezers, ultralow-temperature freezers, and cryopreservation storage tanks; temperature control, sample preparation and preservation, centrifugation, and biological safety cabinet products; water analysis instruments; laboratory plastics products; laboratory chemicals; and pharma services. The company offers products and services through a direct sales force, customer-service professionals, electronic commerce, third-party distributors, and catalogs.

Frequently asked questions

What percentage of Thermo Fisher Scientific is owned by insiders or institutions?
Currently 0.196% of Thermo Fisher Scientific shares are held by insiders and 89.576% by institutions. How many people work for Thermo Fisher Scientific?
Latest data suggests 80,000 work at Thermo Fisher Scientific. When does the fiscal year end for Thermo Fisher Scientific?
Thermo Fisher Scientific's fiscal year ends in December. Where is Thermo Fisher Scientific based?
Thermo Fisher Scientific's address is: 168 Third Avenue, Waltham, MA, United States, 02451 What is Thermo Fisher Scientific's ISIN number?
Thermo Fisher Scientific's international securities identification number is: US8835561023 What is Thermo Fisher Scientific's CUSIP number?
Thermo Fisher Scientific's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 883556102