Danaher Corporation Company Profile
NYSE: DHRIndustrialsIndustrial Machinery/ComponentsUSD
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Danaher at a glance
Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR) is a Industrial Machinery/Components company in the Industrials sector headquartered in Washington, DC. Danaher employs about 58,000 people. At a market capitalization of $152.87 billion, it is considered a large-cap company.
DHR is a member of the SP500. Its SEC Central Index Key (CIK) is 0000313616, which identifies the company's filings on EDGAR.
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What does Danaher do?
Danaher Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets professional, medical, research, and industrial products and services in the United States, China, and internationally. The company operates through Biotechnology, Life Sciences, and Diagnostics segments. The Biotechnology segment provides technologies, consumables, services, and solutions that advance, accelerate, and integrate the development and manufacture of therapeutics; cell line and cell culture media development services; cell culture media, process liquids and buffers for manufacturing, chromatography resins, filtration technologies, and aseptic fill finish; single-use hardware, consumables, and services, such as the design and installation of full manufacturing suites; lab filtration, separation, and purification; lab-scale protein purification and analytical tools; reagents, membranes, and services for diagnostic and assay development; and healthcare filtration solutions. The Life Sciences segment provides mass spectrometers; bioanalytical measurement systems; flow cytometry, genomics, lab automation, centrifugation, liquid handling automation instruments, antibodies and reagents, and particle counting and characterization; genome sample preparation; microscopes; protein consumables; filtration products; and genomic medicines, such as custom nucleic acid products, and plasmid DNA, RNA, and proteins under the ABCAM, ALDEVRON, BECKMAN COULTER, GENEDATA, IDT, LEICA MICROSYSTEMS, MOLECULAR DEVICES, PALL, PHENOMENEX, and SCIEX brands. The Diagnostics segment offers clinical instruments, consumables, software, and services that hospitals, physicians' offices, reference laboratories and other critical care settings use to diagnose disease and make treatment decisions. The company was formerly known as Diversified Mortgage Investors, Inc. and changed its name to Danaher Corporation in 1984. Danaher Corporation was incorporated in 1969 and is headquartered in Washington, the District Of Columbia.
Business description based on the company's public filings.
Company information
- Legal name
- Danaher Corporation
- Ticker
- NYSE: DHR
- Sector
- Industrials
- Industry
- Industrial Machinery/Components
- Employees
- 58,000
- Headquarters
- 2200 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W., Washington, DC, United States
- Phone
- 202 828 0850
- Website
- danaher.com
- Market cap
- $152.87B
- SEC CIK
- 0000313616
- Latest annual report
- 10-K · Feb 24, 2026
Index membership
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