Veralto Corp delivers four consecutive earnings beats and carries high-quality financial characteristics including a 36% return on equity and strong margins of 17%, but a confirmed price downtrend with the 200-day moving average declining at 3.1% per month and a death-cross technical signal block the near-term entry case.
Thesis pillars
- High Quality Business Returns→Stable
- Consistent Earnings Beat Streak↓Deteriorating
- Confirmed Price Downtrend Risk↑Improving
- +1 more pillar — see the Why tab for full reasoning
Pillars as of Jul 3, 2026, based on the 10-K filed Feb 20, 2026· older than 90 days
Veralto Corp (VLTO) Stock Analysis
Industrials · Pollution & Treatment Controls
Sell if holding. Analyst target reached at $117.02 — A.R:R is negative (-0.3) — price has exceeded the analyst target. Reward from here is too thin for a buy — the engine flags exit. Additional concerns: Near 52-week high (1.2% away).
Veralto operates two segments — Water Quality (WQ) and Product Quality & Innovation (PQI) — providing water analytics, treatment, and marking and coding solutions to municipal utilities, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and industrial customers worldwide. The company generated... Read more
Sell if holding. Analyst target reached at $117.02 — A.R:R is negative (-0.3) — price has exceeded the analyst target. Reward from here is too thin for a buy — the engine flags exit. Additional concerns: Near 52-week high (1.2% away). Chart setup: No clear chart pattern; technical signals are mixed. Score 5.5/10, moderate confidence.
Passes 7/8 gates (positive momentum, clean insider activity, no SEC red flags, news events none recent, earnings proximity 89d clear, semi cycle peak clear, materials cycle peak clear). Fails on favorable risk/reward ratio. Suitability: moderate.
About Veralto Corp
About Veralto Corp
Veralto's two operating segments generated $5.5 billion in 2025 sales: Water Quality (WQ), providing water analytics, treatment, and monitoring solutions under Hach, ChemTreat, and Trojan Technologies, and Product Quality & Innovation (PQI), offering marking and coding, packaging, and color management products under Videojet, Esko, X-Rite, and Pantone. North America accounted for 48% of 2025 revenue, high-growth markets 27%, and Western Europe 23%. Veralto employed nearly 17,000 people at December 31, 2025.
Veralto earns revenue through consumables (chemical reagents, inks, process chemicals), spare parts, maintenance services, and SaaS and term-based software licenses, which represented approximately 61% of 2025 sales. Within WQ, Hach serves over 149,000 customers ranging from small community water utilities to large industrial operators, and Trojan Technologies supports treatment of 15 trillion gallons of water annually. PQI targets consumer packaged goods and pharmaceutical manufacturers — the 10-K states a majority of the top 25 global CPG brands and a majority of the top 20 pharmaceutical brands use PQI solutions — with inline printing and coding systems sold alongside design software from Esko and color management tools from X-Rite and Pantone. Products reach customers directly and through roughly 18% third-party distributor sales; no individual customer accounted for more than 10% of 2025 sales. Cost inputs include metallic and electronic components, chemistries, and petroleum-based products procured from a large number of independent sources globally.
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Supply chain concentration at Veralto is limited but not absent. The 10-K discloses that for components requiring particular specifications or regulatory qualifications, there may be a single supplier or a limited number of suppliers that can readily provide such components — a disclosed dependency alongside the company's general diversification. Tariffs on U.S. imports from China and other countries imposed since January 2025 represent an ongoing source of input cost uncertainty that could weigh on margins if mitigations fall short; the filing notes no assurance that these factors will not have an adverse impact on the business and financial statements in 2026.
See also: Industrials · Pollution & Treatment Controls
From Veralto Corp's most recent 10-K filing, extracted June 16, 2026.
Recent developments
updated Oct 28, 2026Recent Developments — Veralto Corp
Latest news
- NEWS Why Veralto (VLTO) is Poised to Beat Earnings Estimates Again - Yahoo Finance — Yahoo Finance Oct 28, 2026 positive
- NEWS Veralto (VLTO) reports earnings tomorrow: what to expect - Yahoo Finance — Yahoo Finance Oct 28, 2026 neutral
- NEWS Veralto (VLTO) reports earnings tomorrow: what to expect - StockStory — StockStory Oct 28, 2026 neutral
- NEWS Veralto (VLTO) reports earnings tomorrow: what to expect - TradingView — TradingView Oct 28, 2026 neutral
- NEWS Veralto Gears Up to Report Q3 Earnings: What's in the Cards? - TradingView — TradingView Oct 27, 2026 neutral
Latest item Oct 28, 2026 · Generated 2026-11-05T11:49:12Z.
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- MEDIUMGeographicNorth America48%10-K Item 1: 'We generated 48% of our 2025 sales from North America'
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Rating Breakdown
2 floor-breakers
Ranks in the bottom of its industry peers on the composite signal. Better names in the same sector exist.static
Technicals below the gate floor. Component breakdown shows what dragged the score down.static
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Sell if holding. Analyst target reached at $117.02 — A.R:R is negative (-0.3) — price has exceeded the analyst target. Reward from here is too thin for a buy — the engine flags exit. Additional concerns: Near 52-week high (1.2% away). Chart setup: No clear chart pattern; technical signals are mixed. Prior stop was $111.26. Score 5.5/10, moderate confidence.
Analyst target $112.16 reached (−4.2% from $117.02); no take-profit level is published. Prior stop was $111.26. Stop-loss: $111.26.
Analyst target reached - limited upside remaining; Near 52-week high (1.2% away); Sector modifier (Industrials): -0.7.
Veralto Corp trades at a P/E of 28.9 (forward 24.0). TrendMatrix value score: 4.2/10. Verdict: Sell.
24 analysts rate VLTO, with a consensus score of 4.0/5. 16 analysts publish price targets averaging $125.
What does Veralto Corp do?Veralto operates two segments — Water Quality (WQ) and Product Quality & Innovation (PQI) — providing water analytics,...
Veralto operates two segments — Water Quality (WQ) and Product Quality & Innovation (PQI) — providing water analytics, treatment, and marking and coding solutions to municipal utilities, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and industrial customers worldwide. The company generated $5.5 billion in 2025 sales, with approximately 61% from recurring consumables, services, and software. A large installed base of instruments drives repeat consumables and software revenue across a nearly 17,000-person global workforce.