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Danaher Corporation

DHR#77 of 134 by buybacks

NYSE · Healthcare · Diagnostics & Research · USA

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Buybacks · TTM to Jun 2026$2.90Blatest four quarters
Buyback yield1.9%repurchases ÷ market cap
Dividends · TTM to Jun 2026$964Mdividend yield 0.6%
Shareholder yield2.5%buybacks + dividends ÷ market cap
Shares outstanding · 5 yr−4.2%708M shares (2026)
Buybacks ÷ free cash flow53%payout incl. dividends 71%
Buybacks and dividends by fiscal year
Cash returned to shareholders, in USD. Fiscal years end in December.
Shares outstanding
Share count down 4.2% over roughly five years. Falling is what a real buyback looks like.
Quarterly repurchases
Last 8 reported quarters, in USD. Orange bars mark quarters where the company issued more shares than it bought.

Fiscal-year detail

From the cash-flow statement as reported, in USD. Negative repurchases mean net share issuance.

Fiscal yearRepurchasesDividendsFree cash flow
FY2025Dec 2025$3.09B$878M$5.26B
FY2024Dec 2024$5.98B$768M$5.30B
FY2023Dec 2023−$1.01B$821M$5.78B
FY2022Dec 2022−$934M$818M$7.37B
FY2021Dec 2021−$3.25B$742M$7.06B
FY2020Dec 2020−$5.70B$615M$5.42B
FY2019Dec 2019−$16.5B$751M$3.32B

Repurchases in FY2025 were −48.4% versus the prior year.

About Danaher Corporation

Danaher Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets professional, medical, research, and industrial products and services in the United States, China, and internationally. The company operates through Biotechnology, Life Sciences, and Diagnostics segments. The Biotechnology segment provides technologies, consumables, services, and solutions that advance, accelerate, and integrate the development and manufacture of therapeutics; cell line and cell culture media development services; cell culture media, process li…

Market cap
$155B
P/E (trailing)
39.2×
Fiscal year end
December
ISIN
US2358511028
Reporting currency
USD
Data updated
Oct 10, 2026
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