Thursday, September 20, 2018

Danaher's Pall Investor Meeting Underscores Several Business Strengths

In isolation, Danaher’s (DHR) investor day focusing on the Pall operations doesn’t really change anything about the story. What I believe is more important, though, is what the presentation reveals about the company’s much-lauded Danaher Business System (or DBS) and its ability to drive value from M&A.

With Danaher successfully integrating and improving companies across the range of revenue growth and R&D intensity, I believe Danaher has a compelling case for how and why it can continue to buy companies (particularly in life sciences and diagnostics) at seemingly high valuations and still generate value from the process and capital invested.

Danaher’s life science opportunities are significant, and I see no reason to believe that the company is looking at any significant near-term issues in the water or product ID businesses. Management was actually more optimistic than I expected on conditions in the semiconductor sector, and the company is leveraging its pricing power and supply chain flexibility to minimize the disturbances from tariffs.

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Danaher's Pall Investor Meeting Underscores Several Business Strengths

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