Is Mettler-Toledo International Stocks suffering from DOW performance?

Columbus, Mettler-Toldo International Inc. Its headquarters (MTD) is the largest in weight tools for use in retail applications in laboratories, industrial and food. With the maximum market of $ 25.9 billion, Mettler’s operations extend over the Americas, Europe, Asia and internationally.

Companies of $ 10 billion or more are described as “large shares”. MTD is appropriate to this category directly, with the maximum market exceeding this threshold, which reflects its size and great impact in the manufacture of laboratory tools.

Despite its noticeable strength points, the MTD share decreased by 17.2 % of its highest level in 52 weeks at $ 1,521.01 on October 2, 2024. Meanwhile, MTD stock has gained 6 % over the past three months, slightly late behind Dow Jones Industry Malef’s ($ DowI) 6.7 % during a time period.

In the long run, the MTD performance remained great. MTD shares gained 2.9 % on the basis of YTD and decreased by 8.3 % over the past 52 weeks, which led to twice the performance of DOW by 7.7 % in 2025 and 11.5 % during the past year.

The shares of MTD have mostly lower than the moving average for 200 days over the past year until recently and traded higher than the moving average for 50 days since May, confirming its general declining direction and the last apostasy.

Despite the reporting of better results than expected, the Mettler-Toledo International stock prices decreased by 3 % in the trading session after the release of the Q2 results on July 31. Despite the difficult market conditions, the company has achieved growth in most of its business. Its net sales of a quarter increased by 3.9 % year on an annual basis to 983.2 million dollars, exceeding 2.7 % street expectations. Meanwhile, the profitability of the modified arrow increased by 4.6 % on an annual basis to $ 10.09, which exceeds 5.3 % unanimity estimates. After the initial decrease, the MTD prices gained 2.9 % in the subsequent trading session.

Mettler-Toledo has significantly outperformed its counterpart, IQVia Holdings Inc. (IQV) by 4.7 % in 2025 and 21.5 % over 52 weeks.

Among the 13 analysts covering MTD shares, the consensus classification is a “moderate purchase”. The average target price of $ 1,330.45 proposes modest capabilities of 5.6 % of current price levels.

On the date of publication, Aditya Sarawi did not have positions (either directly or indirectly) in any of the securities mentioned in this article. All information and data in this article are only for media purposes. This article was originally published on Barchart.com