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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>For the fourth quarter of 2024, Thermo Fisher Scientific reported a 5% year-over-year growth in revenue, reaching $11.4 billion, alongside a 7% increase in adjusted operating income, which totaled $2.72 billion.</li><li>This resulted in an adjusted operating margin expansion by 50 basis points to 23.9%.</li><li>Moreover, adjusted earnings per share (EPS) grew by 8% to $6.10.</li></ul>

For the fourth quarter of 2024, Thermo Fisher Scientific reported a 5% year-over-year growth in revenue, reaching $11.4 billion, alongside a 7% increase in adjusted operating income, which totaled $2.72 billion.This resulted in an adjusted operating margin expansion by 50 basis points to 23.9%.Moreover, adjusted earnings per share (EPS) grew by 8% to $6.10.

Thermo Fisher Scientific: Will Its Shift Toward Contract Research and Manufacturing Pay Off? - Major Drivers

Equity Long-Short Analyst

Pyari Menon

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/twist-bioscience-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:37112:1" rel="noopener">Twist Bioscience (TWST US)</a> fosters a new biotech paradigm by empowering startups and researchers with scalable tools, accelerating innovation and transforming biotech into a more agile, tech-style founder-driven industry.</li>
<li>DNA synthesis should see strong growth (15-25% CAGR estimates) driven by synthetic biology revolutionizing healthcare, agriculture, and industry with precise, scalable solutions for gene editing and bioengineering.</li>
<li>Lack of profitability and notable short-seller interest are concerns, but its innovative platform, high innovation score and transformative potential makes a somewhat risky but very good investment case</li>
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Twist Bioscience (TWST US) fosters a new biotech paradigm by empowering startups and researchers with scalable tools, accelerating innovation and transforming biotech into a more agile, tech-style founder-driven industry.
DNA synthesis should see strong growth (15-25% CAGR estimates) driven by synthetic biology revolutionizing healthcare, agriculture, and industry with precise, scalable solutions for gene editing and bioengineering.
Lack of profitability and notable short-seller interest are concerns, but its innovative platform, high innovation score and transformative potential makes a somewhat risky but very good investment case


<ul><li>Thermo Fisher Scientific's third-quarter results of 2024 demonstrated robust financial performance amid a challenging environment, driven by a mix of solid core business operations and strategic initiatives.</li><li>The company reported quarterly revenue of $10.6 billion with an adjusted operating income amounting to $2.36 billion, reflecting an adjusted operating margin of 22.3%.</li><li>The adjusted earnings per share (EPS) was reported at $5.28, underscoring their capacity to generate consistent shareholder value.</li></ul>

Thermo Fisher Scientific's third-quarter results of 2024 demonstrated robust financial performance amid a challenging environment, driven by a mix of solid core business operations and strategic initiatives.The company reported quarterly revenue of $10.6 billion with an adjusted operating income amounting to $2.36 billion, reflecting an adjusted operating margin of 22.3%.The adjusted earnings per share (EPS) was reported at $5.28, underscoring their capacity to generate consistent shareholder value.

Thermo Fisher Scientific: Expansion of Clinical Research & Pharma Services Integration Driving Our Bullishness!  - Major Drivers

External broker reports(aggregated public sources), CMB International

CMB International

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Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

<ul><li>Thermo Fisher, distinguished by its extensive portfolio of products and services, stands as a global leader in life science services.</li><li>We are confident in the long-term prospects of Thermo Fisher as a global leader in life sciences industry, backed by its economies of scale, strong industry consolidation capabilities and its end-to-end platform amid the expected turnaround in client destocking and biotech funding.</li><li>We initiate coverage on the stock with a BUY rating and TP of US$670.00.</li></ul>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Thermo Fisher, distinguished by its extensive portfolio of products and services, stands as a global leader in life science services.We are confident in the long-term prospects of Thermo Fisher as a global leader in life sciences industry, backed by its economies of scale, strong industry consolidation capabilities and its end-to-end platform amid the expected turnaround in client destocking and biotech funding.We initiate coverage on the stock with a BUY rating and TP of US$670.00.Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Thermo Fisher (TMO US) - A Global Leader in Life Sciences with Favourable Industry Trends

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Arun George

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/rigaku-holdings-corporation" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:43950:1" rel="noopener">Rigaku Holdings (268A JP)</a> priced its IPO at JPY1,260 per share to raise gross proceeds of US$856 million. The shares will start trading on 25 October.</li>
<li>We previously discussed the IPO in <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/rigaku-holdings-268a-jp-ipo-the-bull-case" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="insights:161041" rel="noopener">Rigaku Holdings (268A JP) IPO: The Bull Case</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/rigaku-holdings-268a-jp-ipo-the-bear-case" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="insights:161232" rel="noopener">Rigaku Holdings (268A JP) IPO: The Bear Case</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/rigaku-holdings-268a-jp-ipo-valuation-insights" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="insights:161523" rel="noopener">Rigaku Holdings (268A JP) IPO: Valuation Insights</a>.</li>
<li>The peers have modestly derated since the prospectus was released on 20 September. The IPO price remains attractive.</li>
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Rigaku Holdings (268A JP) priced its IPO at JPY1,260 per share to raise gross proceeds of US$856 million. The shares will start trading on 25 October.
We previously discussed the IPO in Rigaku Holdings (268A JP) IPO: The Bull Case, Rigaku Holdings (268A JP) IPO: The Bear Case, Rigaku Holdings (268A JP) IPO: Valuation Insights.
The peers have modestly derated since the prospectus was released on 20 September. The IPO price remains attractive.


Rigaku Holdings (268A JP) IPO: Trading Debut

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Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. manufactures scientific instruments, consumables, and chemicals. The Company offers analytical instruments, laboratory equipment, software, services, consumables, reagents, chemicals, and supplies to pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions, and government agencies.

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Thermo Fisher (TMO US) - A Global Leader in Life Sciences with Favourable Industry Trends

Thermo Fisher, distinguished by its extensive portfolio of products and services, stands as a global leader in life science services.

CMB International

Rigaku Holdings (268A JP) IPO: Trading Debut

The shares will start trading on 25 October. The peers have modestly derated since the prospectus was released on 20 September. The IPO price...

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