News about DHR

This article compares Roper Technologies (ROP) and Danaher (DHR) on long-term capital allocation. Over the six months to October 15, ROP returned 4.01% and DHR 18.97%, versus 21.5% for the Insider Monkey Billionaire Index and 15.74% for the State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust. Roper focuses on specialized vertical-market software with recurring revenue, reporting enterprise software gross retention in the mid-90% range and 7% organic recurring revenue growth in the second quarter, while Danaher applies its Danaher Business System across biotechnology, life sciences and diagnostics, completing its Masimo acquisition in June and announcing the StatLab deal. ROP trades at 15.16x trailing and 14.97x forward earnings, compared with 39.41x and 23.81x for DHR, a gap the article calls sizable given Roper's 5% organic revenue growth against Danaher's 3% core revenue growth in the quarter. The article argues both strategies depend on buying the right businesses at the right price.