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Mettler-Toledo International (FRA:MTO) 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio : 2.80% (As of Mar. 2025)


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What is Mettler-Toledo International 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio?

Shares Outstanding (EOP) are shares that have been authorized, issued, and purchased by investors and are held by them.

5-Year Share Buyback Ratio measures the average annual proportion of a company's outstanding shares repurchased over the past five years. It is calculated as the annualized percentage change in shares outstanding from five years ago to the current year. A positive ratio may indicate share buybacks over the period, while a zero or negative ratio may reflect no repurchases or potential share issuance. Mettler-Toledo International's current 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio was 2.80%.

FRA:MTO's 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio is ranked better than
97.69% of 173 companies
in the Medical Diagnostics & Research industry
Industry Median: -4.3 vs FRA:MTO: 2.80

Competitive Comparison of Mettler-Toledo International's 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio

For the Diagnostics & Research subindustry, Mettler-Toledo International's 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

Mettler-Toledo International's 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio Distribution in the Medical Diagnostics & Research Industry

For the Medical Diagnostics & Research industry and Healthcare sector, Mettler-Toledo International's 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Mettler-Toledo International's 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio falls into.


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Mettler-Toledo International 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio Calculation

This is the annualized percentage change in shares outstanding from five years ago to the current year. The annualized percentage change is calculated with least-square regression based on the latest six years of annual data on Shares Outstanding (EOP).

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Mettler-Toledo International (FRA:MTO) 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio Explanation

A negative number means the company might be issuing new shares. A positive number indicates that the company is buying back shares.

Be Aware

Investors usually like share buybacks. But as pointed by Warren Buffett, only if a company buys back shares at the prices below the stock's intrinsic value, it rewards remaining shareholders. If a company buys its overvalued stocks back, it destroys shareholder value.

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Mettler-Toledo International Business Description

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Address
1900 Polaris Parkway, Columbus, OH, USA, 43240
Website
https://www.mt.com
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 28%, China about 16% and the rest of the world about 19%.

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