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Thermo Fisher Scientific sells scientific instruments and laboratory equipment, diagnostics consumables, and life science reagents. The firm operates through four segments as of year-end 2024 (revenue figures include some cross-segment revenue): analytical technologies (17% of sales); specialty diagnostic products (11%); life science solutions (23%); and lab products and services, which includes CRO services (the remainder).

In 1984, Danaher's founders transformed a real estate organization into an industrial-focused manufacturing company. Then, through a series of mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, Danaher now focuses primarily on manufacturing scientific instruments and consumables in the life sciences and diagnostic industries after the late 2023 divestiture of its environmental and applied solutions group, Veralto.

Founded in 1941 in Tokyo as an optical glass production plant, Hoya is one of the largest eyeglass lens manufacturers in the world. Leveraging its technology know-how in glass manufacturing, Hoya entered the mask blanks business in 1974. Now although its life care business accounts for more than 60% of its total revenue, majority of its profit before tax comes from its higher-margin IT business.

Wuxi AppTec Co Ltd provides a portfolio of research and manufacturing services throughout the discovery, development, and manufacturing spectrum for small molecule drugs, development of computer software and databases as well as consulting services for combinatorial chemistry and pharmaceuticals. The services offered by the company include drug research and development testing, clinical research services, an end-to-end CRDMO platform for peptide, oligonucleotide, and small molecules, and integrated biology services and solutions for drug discovery. The company's reportable segments are WuXi Chemistry, which derives maximum revenue, WuXi Testing, WuXi Biology, and Others. Geographically, it derives key revenue from the United States of America, followed by China, Europe, and other regions.

Idexx Laboratories primarily develops, manufactures, and distributes diagnostic products, equipment, and services for pets and livestock. Its key product lines include single-use canine and feline test kits that veterinarians can employ in the office, benchtop chemistry and hematology analyzers for test-panel analysis on-site, reference lab services, and tests to detect and manage disease in livestock. The firm also offers vet practice management software and consulting services to animal hospitals. Idexx derives roughly 35% of its revenue from outside the United States.

Becton Dickinson is the world's largest manufacturer and distributor of medical surgical products, such as needles, syringes, and sharps-disposal units. The company also manufactures prefilled devices, diagnostic instruments, and reagents, as well as flow cytometry and cell-imaging systems. On a 2025 sales basis, following the spinoff, BD Medical Essentials represented 34% of revenue, the Interventional segment 28%, Connected Care 25%, and Biopharma 13%. International revenue accounts for 43% of the company's business.

Water sells liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry, and thermal analysis tools. These analytical instruments provide essential information on various products, such as their molecular structures and physical properties, to help clients enhance the health and well-being of end users. As a percentage of sales in 2024, Waters generated 58% from biopharmaceutical customers, 31% from industrial clients, and 11% from academic/government institutions. In early 2026, Waters plans to merge with BD's life science and diagnostics business, which will substantially change those concentrations. Waters will wind up with more concentration in diagnostics (versus none now) and discovery-related life science tools.

Medline Inc is a medical-surgical products and supply chain solutions provider in the USA. The company has two reportable segments, Medline Brand and Supply Chain Solutions, the combination of which addresses critical needs in the market through a comprehensive solution. The product portfolio of the company includes 335,000 med-surg products, including surgical and procedural kits, gloves and protective apparel, urological and incontinence care, wound care, and consumable lab and diagnostics products. The company generates its maximum revenue domestically and serves some of the key USA health systems.

Originally spun out of Hewlett-Packard in 1999, Agilent has evolved into a leading life science and diagnostic firm. Today, Agilent's measurement technologies serve a broad base of customers with its three operating segments: life science and diagnostics, cross lab operations consisting of consumables and services, and applied end markets. Over half of its sales are generated from the biopharmaceutical, chemical, and advanced materials end markets, which we view as the stickiest end markets, but it also supports clinical lab, environmental, forensics, food, academic, and government-related organizations. The company is geographically diverse, with operations in the US and China representing the largest country concentrations.

Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co Ltd is a developer, manufacturer, and supplier of medical devices. The company is focused on the medical industry in the fields of Patient Monitoring & Life Support, InVitro Diagnostics, and Medical Imaging.

Fresenius SE is a healthcare holding company based in Germany. The company owns a minority stake in dialysis service provider and equipment manufacturer Fresenius Medical Care. The Kabi segment manufactures intravenous drugs, nutrition products, infusion and transfusion therapies, and related pumps. The Helios segment operates private hospitals primarily in Germany and Spain.

West Pharmaceutical Services is based in Pennsylvania and is a key supplier to firms in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and generic drug industries. West sells elastomer-based packaging components (including stoppers, seals, and plungers), nonglass containment solutions, and auto-injectors for injectable drugs, which include large-molecule biologics, peptides such as GLP-1 receptor agonists, and small-molecule drugs. The company reports in two segments: proprietary products (about 80% of total revenue) and contract-manufactured products (about 20% of total revenue). It generates approximately 55% of its revenue from international markets and 45% from the United States.

Started as a clinical thermometer producer in Japan in 1921, Terumo is a comprehensive medical device player with a diversified global revenue. Its product portfolio includes prefilled syringes, insulin patch pumps, neurovascular or cardiac vascular interventional devices, and blood processing systems. As of 2025, the cardiac and vascular business is the largest segment, contributing over 60% of its total revenue. Geographically, North America is the largest region, with 38% of Terumo’s revenue.

Mettler-Toledo supplies weighing and precision instruments to customers in the life sciences (around 55% of sales), industrial (around 40%), and food retail (around 5%) industries. Its products include laboratory and retail scales, pipettes, pH meters, thermal analysis equipment, titrators, metal detectors, and X-ray analyzers. Mettler leads the market for weighing instrumentation and controls more than 50% of the market for lab balances. The business is geographically diversified, with the Americas accounting for about 37% of sales, Europe about 27%, China about 16% and the rest of the world about 20%.

Quest Diagnostics is a leading independent provider of diagnostic testing, information, and services in the US. The company generates over 95% of its revenue through clinical testing, anatomic pathology, esoteric testing, and substance abuse testing with specimens collected at its national network of roughly 2,300 patient service centers, as well as multiple doctors offices and hospitals. The firm also runs a much smaller diagnostic solutions segment that provides clinical trials testing, risk-assessment services, and information technology solutions.

Steris is an Ireland-domiciled medical technology company focused on sterilization services and infection prevention. The company is the global leader in contract sterilization services, ensuring the safe delivery of single-use and implantable medical equipment to hospitals around the world. Steris also sells sterilizers, washer-disinfectors, and other decontamination equipment and supplies for use by care provider facilities and in biopharma manufacturing sites. Domiciled in the United States before its inversion to Ireland, the firm derives approximately 70% of its revenue from Healthcare Services, 19% from Applied Sterilization Technologies, or AST, and 11% from life sciences services after the divestment of its dental products business.

Labcorp is one of the nation's two largest independent clinical laboratories, with roughly 20% of the independent lab market. The company operates approximately 2,000 patient-service centers, offering a broad range of 5,000 clinical lab tests, ranging from uncomplicated routine blood and urine screens to complex oncology and genomic testing.

Sartorius Stedim Biotech is a leading provider of bioprocessing solutions. Its sells equipment and consumables for fermentation, filtration, fluid management, purification, and cell culture media for manufacturing biologic drugs and has a focus on single-use technology. It is a subsidiary of Sartorius AG, which has 71.5% ownership and 83% voting control. The business is geographically diverse, with 35% of sales from the Americas, 42% from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, 15% from Asia excluding China, and 8% from China.

Straumann is a global leader in tooth replacement and orthodontics solutions. Its line of products includes dental implants, abutments, clear aligners, biomaterials, and computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing equipment. The firm's core products are dental implants, and it holds over one third of the CHF 6 billion global market. Originally a pure premium implant player, Straumann entered the value market in 2012 with its acquisition of Neodent. Straumann now accounts for almost half of the global premium market and around 15% of the value market. While its premium product catalog is marketed under Straumann, its value brands include Neodent, Anthogyr, and Medentika as well as other local and regional brands.

Smith & Nephew designs, manufactures, and markets orthopedic devices, sports medicine and arthroscopic technologies, and wound care solutions. Roughly 41% of the UK-based firm's revenue comes from orthopedic products, and another 30% is sports medicine and ENT. The remaining 29% of revenue is from the advanced wound therapy segment. Over half of Smith & Nephew's total revenue comes from the United States, just over 30% is from other developed markets, and emerging markets account for the remainder.

Eurofins, headquartered in Luxembourg, is a decentralized network of life sciences companies that provide various analytical tests and laboratory services. These include tests to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, purity, origin, and traceability of various biological substances and products. Eurofins operates over 950 laboratories in 61 countries. Its revenue from Europe, North America, and the rest of the world contributes approximately 50%, 40%, and 10% of total revenue, respectively. Its areas of business activity are food, feed, and environmental testing ("life"), biopharmaceutical services, diagnostic services and products, and consumer and technology products testing, which contribute approximately 40%, 30%, 20%, and 10% respectively.

Fresenius Medical Care is the largest dialysis company in the world, treating about 300,000 patients from nearly 3,700 clinics worldwide as of December 2024. In addition to providing dialysis services, the firm is a leading supplier of dialysis products, including machines, dialyzers, and concentrates. Fresenius accounts for about 35% of the global dialysis products market, creating the world's only fully integrated dialysis business. Services account for about three-fourths of sales, while the balance is generated from medical technology products that enable dialysis treatments.

Max Healthcare Institute Ltd is a health care service provider. The company's facilities include third-party healthcare providers with whom the company has entered long-term service contracts for providing clinical, radiology, and pathology services. Its hospitals provide the full range of services through its Outpatient, Day Care, Emergency Room, and In-Patient departments to accommodate medical specialties such as orthopedics, internal medicine, general surgery, cardiac sciences, oncology, neurosciences, and obstetrics, as well as diagnostics. The group derives revenue from India.

Revvity is a global life sciences and diagnostics company formed in 2023 following the rebranding of PerkinElmer. The company operates in two segments: life sciences, which provides reagents and instruments for biopharma and academic research, and signals software, and diagnostics, which offers tools in immunodiagnostics and newborn and reproductive health. Revvity’s products and services are sold worldwide, with major markets in the US, Europe, and China.

BioMérieux designs, develops, and manufactures a broad portfolio of in vitro diagnostics for detecting disease-causing pathogens and contamination. The company operates in four segments: molecular biology (42% of 2024 sales), microbiology (33%), immunoassays (10%), and industrial applications (about 15%). The Americas account for the largest portion of the firm's revenue (40%), followed by Asia-Pacific (27%) and Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (27%). BioMérieux is headquartered in Marcy-l'Étoile, France.

Baxter offers a variety of medical supplies and equipment to providers. From its legacy operations, Baxter sells injectable therapies for use in care settings, including IV pumps, administrative sets, and solutions; nutritional products; and surgical sealants and hemostatic agents. Baxter expanded its portfolio of hospital-focused offerings by acquiring Hillrom in late 2021, which added basic equipment like hospital beds, operating room equipment, and patient monitoring tools to the portfolio. Baxter also sold its kidney care tools in early 2025.

Bangkok Dusit Medical Services PCL operates a network of hospitals throughout Thailand under the Bangkok Hospital, Phyathai Hospital, Samitivej Hospital, Paolo Hospital, BNH Hospital, and Royal International Hospital brands. The company has two business segments namely, hospital operations and other businesses that support hospital business such as medical laboratories, production and distribution of pharmaceutical products/medical equipment/saline, pharmacies, assets management for healthcare business, accounting services, technology and information services, training business and insurance broker. The company's hospital operations generate the vast majority of its revenue.

Founded in the 1880s and listing on the ASX in 1952, ALS operates two divisions: commodities and life sciences. ALS commodities traditionally generated the majority of underlying earnings, providing geochemistry, metallurgy, inspection and mine site services for the global mining industry. Expansion into environmental, pharmaceutical and food testing areas has lessened earnings exposure to commodities.

Fortis Healthcare Ltd provides integrated healthcare delivery services in India. The company manages healthcare centers including hospitals, diagnostics, and day care specialty facilities. The company's key specialty in its hospital business is cardiac sciences. It is predominantly engaged in the business of healthcare services which is the only reportable segment. The company's key hospitals include Fortis Escorts Heart Institute in Dehli, Fortis Mulund in Mumbai, and Fortis Hospital in Bengaluru. The majority of the company's revenue is derived from India.

Charles River Laboratories was founded in 1947 and is a leading provider of drug discovery and development services. The company’s research model & services segment is the leading provider of animal models for laboratory testing, which breeds and delivers animal research models with specific genetic characteristics for preclinical studies around the world. The discovery & safety assessment segment includes services required to take a drug through the early development process, including discovery services. The manufacturing support segment includes microbial solutions, which provides in vitro (non-animal) testing products, biologics testing services, and avian vaccine services.

Headquartered in Crystal Lake, Illinois, AptarGroup is a leading global supplier of dispensing systems such as aerosol valves, pumps, closures, and elastomer packaging components to the consumer goods and pharmaceutical markets. Its sales are primarily from Europe (49% of sales) and the United States (28%), with China contributing 5% and other countries contributing 17%. It operates three business segments, Pharma, Beauty, and Closures. Pharma generates over two thirds of group profits.

Based in Minnesota, Bio-Techne is a life sciences manufacturer supplying consumables and instruments for the pharma, biotech, academic, and diagnostic markets. It reports in two segments: protein sciences (about 75% of revenue) and diagnostics and genomics (25%). The protein sciences segment sells reagents and analytical instruments used in life sciences research, including antibodies used in protein analysis. The diagnostics and genomics segment sells diagnostic reagents, molecular diagnostics, and spatial biology products. The United States accounts for about 55% of revenue. The firm also has operations in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (20% of sales), the UK (5%), and Asia-Pacific (15%), with the rest of the world accounting for the remaining 5%.

Qiagen offers proprietary sample and assay technology to extract, purify, amplify, and interpret DNA, RNA, and proteins. The company's sales are split almost evenly between applications in life sciences and molecular diagnostics. Qiagen generates nearly 90% of its revenue from consumables with the balance coming from instrumentation and related services. The Americas account for the largest portion of the firm's revenue (52% of 2024 sales), followed by EMEA (33%), and the Asia-Pacific (15%).

Pharmaron Beijing Co Ltd is a research and development service company supporting the life science industry. The company offers drug research and development service capabilities, ranging from synthetic, medicinal, and analytical chemistry, biology, DMPK, pharmacology, drug safety assessment, radiochemistry, and isotopically labelled metabolism, chemical and pharmaceutical development to clinical development. The company's operating segment includes Laboratory services; CMC (small molecule CDMO) services, Clinical development services, and biologics and CGT services. It generates maximum revenue from the Laboratory services segment.

Sonic Healthcare is a global pathology provider. It is the largest private operator in Australia, Germany, Switzerland and the UK, the second-largest in Belgium and New Zealand, and the third largest in the US. In addition to pathology, which contributes roughly 85% of group revenue, Sonic is the second-largest player in diagnostic imaging in Australia and the largest operator of medical centers in Australia. The company typically earns about 35% of group revenue in Australia and New Zealand, 25% in the US, and 40% in Europe.

Repligen, headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, is a global life sciences company that develops and sells bioprocessing equipment and supplies used in the manufacturing of biologic drugs, including monoclonal antibodies, recombinant proteins, vaccines, and cell and gene therapies. Its customers include biopharmaceutical companies, contract development and manufacturing organizations, or CDMOs, and other life science companies. It sells four main product categories: filtration (including fluid management) is the largest category (about 55% of total revenue), while chromatography, proteins, and process analytics are 21%, 11%, and 13%, respectively. Customers in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific contribute about 44%, 37%, and 19% of revenue, respectively.

Shenzhen New Industries Biomedical Engineering Co Ltd is researching, developing, producing, and selling a series of fully automatic chemiluminescence immunoassay instruments and supporting reagents.

Hangzhou Tigermed Consulting Co Ltd is a China-based Contract Research Organization. The company's offered services include bioanalytical, medical writing, biostatistical analysis, and medical imaging. The therapeutic areas of the company include Infections, Hematology, Cardiovascular, Endocrinology, Rheumatology, Nephrology, and Central Nervous System (CNS) among others.

Avantor Inc provides products and services to customers in the biopharma, healthcare, education & government, and advanced technologies & applied materials industries. The company operates through two segments: Laboratory Solutions and Bioscience Production. It offers materials & consumables, equipment & instrumentation, and services & specialty procurement. Product groups include Equipment & Instrumentation, Services & Specialty Procurement, Proprietary Materials & Consumables, and Third-Party Materials & Consumables. Materials & consumables include high-purity chemicals and reagents, lab supplies, customized excipients, single-use assemblies, chromatography products, sample preparation kits, and fluid handling solutions. It operates in the Americas, Europe, and AMEA.

Stevanato Group SpA is a provider of drug containment, drug delivery and diagnostic solutions to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and life sciences industries. It delivers an integrated, end-to-end portfolio of products, processes, and services that address customer needs across the entire drug life cycle including development, clinical, and commercial stages. It has two segments; Biopharmaceutical and Diagnostic Solutions which generates key revenue, includes all the products, processes and services developed and provided for the containment and delivery of pharmaceutical and biotechnology drugs and reagents, as well as the production of diagnostic consumables and its other segment is Engineering. Geographically, the company derives majority revenue from Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Sotera Health Co provides sterilization, analytical lab testing, and advisory services to help ensure that medical, pharmaceutical, and food products are safe for healthcare practitioners, patients, and consumers. The company operates in three reportable segments: Sterigenics, Nordion, and Nelson Labs. The Sterigenics segment, which generates maximum revenue, provides outsourced terminal sterilization and irradiation services for medical devices, pharmaceuticals, food safety, and other application markets using three core technologies: gamma irradiation, EO processing, and E-beam irradiation. Geographically, the company generates maximum revenue from the United States, followed by Canada, Europe, and other regions.

Diasorin develops and manufactures a broad portfolio of in vitro diagnostics used for detecting pathogens and contamination of samples from the human body, as well as used in industrial settings such as food and water contamination testing. The company operates three segments: immunodiagnostics (66% of sales), molecular diagnostics (17%), and licensed technologies (14%). Diasorin was an important manufacturer of covid tests, which boosted its profits during the pandemic, but this segment’s importance has decreased over the years, and in 2024, it accounted for only 2% of total sales.

Genscript Biotech Corp is a China-based provider of life science research services and products. The firm is known for its gene synthesis capabilities, a widely used service by academics, biotech companies, and pharmaceutical companies around the world. The company's business segments include Life-science services and products, Biologics development services, Industrial synthetic biology products, and the Operation unit. The company generates the majority of its revenue from the life-science services and products unit, which provides comprehensive research services and products, which are widely used and are fundamental to life-science research and application. Geographically, the company generates the majority of its revenue from the United States of America, followed by Mainland China.

MGI Tech Co Ltd is a producer of clinical high-throughput gene sequencers, and its multi-omics platforms include genetic sequencing, medical imaging, and laboratory automation. It provides real-time, panoramic, and full-life-cycle equipment and systems for precision medicine, precision agriculture, precision healthcare, and other relevant industries.

Dr. Lal PathLabs Ltd is a pathology lab based in India. It is involved in providing diagnostic services and other healthcare tests in the areas of pathology and radiology. The company operates laboratories for carrying out pathological diagnostic services in various branches of biochemistry, hematology, histopathology, microbiology, electrophoresis, immunochemistry, immunology, virology, cytology, and other pathological and radiological investigations. Its diagnostic services assist in preventing, monitoring, and treating diseases and improving health conditions. The company has business operations in India and other countries, of which maximum revenue is generated within India.

Schott Pharma AG & CO KGaA is an international provider of drug containment solutions and delivery systems for injectable drugs for pharma, biotech and life-sciences. Its business operates in two segments: Drug Containment Solutions (DCS) and Drug Delivery Systems (DDS). The majority of revenue is being generated from the DCS segment, which includes products like vials, cartridges, and ampoules, and provides customers with sterile and non-sterile options in standard and high-end formats for drug storage. Geographically, the company generates revenue from Europe, the Middle East, Africa (EMEA), Asia and the South Pacific, North America, and South America.

Haemonetics Corp aims to improve patient care and reduce the cost of healthcare by providing medical products and solutions in the blood and plasma component collection, surgical suite, and hospital transfusion service spaces. As such, the company operates under three segments: plasma, blood center, and hospital. The company primarily emphasizes its plasma and hospital segments due to their robust growth potential, whereas the blood center segment tends to be constrained by higher competition. Product revenue is driven by demand for disposable blood component collection and processing sets and the related equipment needed for proper functionality.

Ansell is a leading supplier of protective gloves for use in healthcare and industrial settings, earning approximately 55% of revenue and 50% of operating profit from the healthcare segment and the remainder from the industrial segment. The company holds a large number of patents, and the majority of sales come from its key branded product ranges. Ansell has a global manufacturing and distribution footprint and distributes via key partners as well as directly across more than 100 countries. In fiscal 2025, Ansell earned 46% of revenue in North America, 31% from Europe, Middle East, and Africa, 14% across Asia-Pacific, and the remaining 10% in Latin America.