Strong financial health metrics — a perfect Piotroski score and free cash flow above net income — underpin a quality foundation, but rich valuation, analyst consensus upside fully exhausted, an overbought technical reading, and estimates trending downward converge to create an unfavorable near-term entry setup.
Thesis pillars
- Rich Valuation Low Margin Safety→Stable
- Analyst Consensus Upside Exhausted→Stable
- Quality Financial Foundation→Stable
- +1 more pillar — see the Why tab for full reasoning
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (BIO-B) Stock Analysis
Healthcare · Medical Devices
Sell if holding. Multiple concerning factors at $299.95: Weak overall score: 4.8/10; Weak growth.
Bio-Rad Laboratories develops and sells instruments, reagents, and consumables across Life Science (40% of net sales) and Clinical Diagnostics (60% of net sales), with approximately 60% of net sales from international markets and Europe as the largest region. The company employs... Read more
Sell if holding. Multiple concerning factors at $299.95: Weak overall score: 4.8/10; Weak growth. Chart setup: No clear chart pattern; technical signals are mixed. Score 4.8/10, moderate confidence.
Passes 7/9 gates (positive momentum, clean insider activity, no SEC red flags, news events none recent, earnings proximity no date, semi cycle peak clear, materials cycle peak clear). Suitability: moderate.
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2 floor-breakers·1 ceiling hit
Ranks in the bottom of its industry peers on the composite signal. Better names in the same sector exist.static
Growth below the gate floor. Component breakdown shows what dragged the score down.static
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Sell if holding. Multiple concerning factors at $299.95: Weak overall score: 4.8/10; Weak growth. Chart setup: No clear chart pattern; technical signals are mixed. Prior stop was $293.43. Score 4.8/10, moderate confidence.
Take-profit target: $298.07 (+0.5% upside). Prior stop was $293.43. Stop-loss: $293.43.
Weak overall score: 4.8/10; Weak growth.
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. trades at a P/E of 49.3 (forward N/A). TrendMatrix value score: 4.1/10. Verdict: Sell.
What does Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. do?Bio-Rad Laboratories develops and sells instruments, reagents, and consumables across Life Science (40% of net sales)...
Bio-Rad Laboratories develops and sells instruments, reagents, and consumables across Life Science (40% of net sales) and Clinical Diagnostics (60% of net sales), with approximately 60% of net sales from international markets and Europe as the largest region. The company employs about 7,450 people in 37 countries and held a $5.7 billion Sartorius AG equity stake at December 31, 2025.