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Danaher Corporation (DHR) Stock Profile & Financial OverviewDanaher Corporation

Listed on NYSE • Healthcare / Medical - Diagnostics & Research
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DHR Company Overview & Business Description

Danaher Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets professional, medical, industrial, and commercial products and services worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Life Sciences, Diagnostics, and Environmental & Applied Solutions. The Life Sciences segment provides mass spectrometers; flow cytometry, genomics, lab automation, centrifugation, particle counting and characterization; microscopes; genomics consumables; and Gene and Cell Therapy. This segment also offers bioprocess technologies, consumables, and services; and filtration, separation, and purification technologies to the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical, food and beverage, medical, and life sciences companies, as well as universities, medical schools and research institutions, and various industrial manufacturers. The Diagnostics segment provides chemistry, immunoassay, microbiology, and automation systems, as well as hematology, molecular, acute care, and pathology diagnostics products. This segment offers clinical instruments, reagents, consumables, software, and services for hospitals, physicians' offices, reference laboratories, and other critical care settings. The Environmental & Applied Solutions segment offers instrumentation, consumables, software, services, and disinfection systems to analyze, treat, and manage ultra-pure, potable, industrial, waste, ground, source, and ocean water in residential, commercial, industrial, and natural resource applications. This segment also provides instruments, software, services, and consumables for various color and appearance management, packaging design and quality management, packaging converting, printing, marking, coding, and traceability applications for consumer, pharmaceutical, and industrial products. The company was formerly known as Diversified Mortgage Investors, Inc. and changed its name to Danaher Corporation in 1984. Danaher Corporation was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Washington, the District of Columbia.

Key Information

Symbol: DHR
CEO: Rainer M. Blair
Exchange: NYSE
CIK: 0000313616
SEC Filings: View SEC →

Current Trend for DHR

An assessment of the current trend environment for DHR, based on the latest closing price data and intended to describe the market context heading into the next trading session.

As of 2025-12-24, the current trend for DHR is a Sideways Consolidation (Range-Bound Environment).

The weekly trend is in a consolidation regime, which automatically downgrades the daily signal to sideways conditions. This environment favors short-term mean-reversion rather than trend-following.

  • The weekly context is non-trending (sideways), which typically caps the duration and magnitude of daily trend moves.
  • Price is currently trending at a healthy distance, sitting 2.16 ATR away from the adaptive KAMA baseline.
  • The market is maintaining a healthy 'Higher-High, Higher-Low' sequence, confirming buyer control.

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Adaptive Trend Model · Daily & Weekly (2025-12-24 ET)

This model uses an adaptive trend algorithm based on daily and weekly price data to identify whether a stock is in an uptrend, downtrend, or consolidation over a multi-week to multi-month horizon. Compared with traditional moving-average systems, it filters short-term noise more effectively, captures trend continuation more reliably, and provides a stronger basis for position sizing and risk-management decisions such as stop-loss and take-profit levels.

As of 2025-12-24, DHR in a non-directional consolidation; Long-term trend is bullish.

Trend Strength: DHR last closed at 231.47, trading 1.5 ATR above the adaptive KAMA baseline (224.81). Technical Classification: Non-Directional / Range-Bound.

Trend Score: Technical Score: 35/100. Classification: Sideways. Alignment: Indeterminate. Logic: Price action is range-bound or lacking sufficient slope for trend confirmation.

SuperTrend Risk: Structural Support: Adaptive SuperTrend at 216.97. This level serves as the calculated invalidation point for the current upward structure.

Risk Skew: Multi-timeframe risk skew is currently assessed as Non-Directional. Price is oscillating within a low-momentum range. Risk is two-sided, favoring mean-reversion strategies over trend-following.

Key Levels: Key technical references: Spot 231.47, KAMA 224.81.

DHR Real-Time Stock Price & Market Data (Updated: Dec 23 12:49 PM EST)

Price
229.93
Change
1.92
Change %
0.84%
Open
227.06
Previous Close
228.01
High
230.95
Low
226.05
Volume
665,659
Market Cap
164,641,734,656
EV/EBITDA
21.87

DHR Shares Outstanding, Float, Short Interest & Ownership (Updated: Dec 23 12:49 PM EST)

Shares Outstanding
706,349,563
FloatShares
628,990,159
Float Ratio
89.05%
Shares Short
8,173,161
Short Percent Of Float
The percent of float shares currently sold short. Reflects market sentiment and risk of a short squeeze.
1.30%
Short Ratio
Days needed to cover all short positions. Indicates short-selling pressure.
2.31 trading days
Held Percent Insiders
11.06%
Held Percent Institutions
83.39%