It's Time For a Quick Look at Thermo Fisher Scientific's Fundamentals.

By Harris Dyer • Thursday, December 14 10:16 • Permanent Link

We're taking a closer look at Thermo Fisher Scientific today, as the chatter surrounding the stock has increased notably in the last few weeks. Today, its shares moved 1.4% compared to 0.0% for the S&P 500. Increased investor interest and volatility surrounding the stock are not reason enough to buy in -- you should first perform your own due diligence. Here are some figures that can get you started:

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. provides life sciences solutions, analytical instruments, specialty diagnostics, and laboratory products and biopharma services in the United States and internationally.
Thermo Fisher Scientific has moved -6.4% over the last year compared to 20.8% for the S&P 500 -- a difference of -27.2%
TMO has an average analyst rating of buy and is -1.52% away from its mean target price of $533.47 per share
Its trailing 12 month earnings per share (EPS) is $15.25
Thermo Fisher Scientific has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 34.4 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $22.03 and its forward P/E ratio is 23.8
TMO has a Price to Earnings Growth (PEG) ratio of 11.46, which shows the company is potentially overvalued when we factor growth into the price to earnings calculus.
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 4.48 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Thermo Fisher Scientific is part of the Industrials sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 22.19 and an average P/B of 4.06
Thermo Fisher Scientific has on average reported free cash flows of $5.82 Billion over the last four years, during which time they have grown by an an average of 11.4%

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