11. Competitors
NAME TICKER MARKET CAP EPS REVENUE
Illumina ILMN $23.66B $3.1 $2.22B
Waters Corp WAT $10.3B $5.65 $2.0B
Becton,
Dickinson and
Co
BDX $31.59 $3.25 $11.22B
Agilent
Technologies
Inc.
A $13.1B $1.40 $4.0B
23. Analyst Price Target Summary
Mean Target: $150.5
Median Target: $151.00
High Target: $170.00
24. Q&A
Hedging: “The currency-exchange contracts principally
hedge transactions denominated in euro, British pounds
sterling, Swiss franc, Japanese yen, Norwegian kroner, and
Swedish kronor.”
Share Buybacks
“The company expects its effective tax rate in 2016 will be
less than 3% based on currently forecasted rates of
profitability in the countries in which the company
conducts business and expected generation of foreign tax
credits.”
25. Competitors VS Segments
Revenue (Billions) R&D
Illumina $2.224 10%
Agilent Technologies $4.0 8%
Becton, Dickson, and CO $11.22 5.6%
Water Corp inc $2.0 1.2%
Revenue (Billions) R&D
Life Sciences Solutions $4.44 7.4%
Analytical Instruments $3.21 6.3%
Specialty Diagnostics $3.29 5.2%
Laboratory Products and
Services
$6.6 2.54%
Editor's Notes
for research, manufacturing, analysis, discovery, and diagnostics
government, environmental, clinical, and other research and industry markets
due to keeping up with rapidly advancing rate of technological advancement
In 2015, currency translation had an unfavorable effect of $938 million on revenues due to the strengthening of the U.S. dollar relative to other currencies in which the company sells products and services. For2016, the company is expecting a significant negative impact on revenues and operating income due to the stronger U.S. dollar.
Our inability to protect our intellectual property …
A 10% depreciation in the related year-end 2015 non-functional currency exchange rates applied to such cash balances would result in a negative impact of $18 million on the company’s net income.