Mettler-Toledo International Inc.
At today's price, Mettler-Toledo International Inc. (MTD) is priced for today's economics sustained for ~5.1 years. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Mettler-Toledo makes precision instruments for labs, factories, and retailers, and its real moat is the service organization of roughly 9,300 people the 10-K calls among the ⟦"broadest global sales and service organizations among precision instrument manufacturers"⟧ it competes against. • The biggest risk is the gap between price and pace: the stock embeds something near 30% annual operating-income growth while management guides full-year local-currency sales growth of about 4%. • Watch the se
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797 institutional managers reported holding MTD in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. 72 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 684k shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 3% of shares outstanding (3.5 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
MTD has cut its share count 12.5% over the past five years, spending $4.38B on repurchases. It pays no dividend. Cash returned over the past three years: $2.26B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at MTD over the trailing three years: 2023: 1 buy totaling $323k. 19 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
MTD's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-29 | -2.0% | -15.3% |
| 2023-11-10 | +0.6% | +13.2% |
| 2024-02-10 | -3.2% | +7.4% |
| 2024-05-11 | +17.0% | -10.0% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
MTD's latest 8-K filings: 2026-05-13 (items 5.02); 2026-05-11 (items 5.07); 2026-05-07 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-02-05 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-01-20 (items 5.02, 7.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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