Company: DHR
Filing Date: 2025-04-22
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000313616-25-000088
Chunk: 83

Company: DANAHER CORP /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-04-22
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 8
Chunk 83
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 or are perceived unfavorably by the market, all of which can adversely affect our business and financial statements.

•Our operations, products and services also expose us to the risk of environmental, health and safety liabilities, costs and violations that can adversely affect our business and financial statements.

•Our By-law exclusive forum provisions could limit our stockholders’ ability to choose their preferred judicial forum for disputes.

See “Part I—Item 1A. Risk Factors” of the Company’s 2024 Annual Report and Part II-Item 1A of this report for further discussion regarding reasons that actual results may differ materially from the results, developments and business decisions contemplated by our forward-looking statements.  Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of the report, document, press release, webcast, call, presentation, materials or other communication in which they are made.  Except to the extent required by applicable law, we do not assume any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events and developments or otherwise.

OVERVIEW

General

As a result of the Company’s geographic and industry diversity, the Company faces a variety of opportunities and challenges, including rapid technological development (particularly with respect to computing, automation, artificial intelligence, mobile connectivity and digitization) in most of the Company’s served markets, the expansion and evolution of opportunities in high-growth markets, trends and costs associated with a global labor force, consolidation of the Company’s competitors and increasing regulation.  The Company operates in a highly competitive business environment in most markets, and the Company’s long-term growth and profitability will depend in particular on its ability to expand its business in high-growth geographies and high-growth market segments, identify, consummate and integrate appropriate acquisitions and identify and consummate appropriate investments and strategic partnerships, develop innovative and differentiated new products and services with higher gross profit margins, expand and improve the effectiveness of the Company’s sales force, continue to reduce costs and improve operating efficiency and quality and effectively address the demands of an increasingly regulated global environment.  The Company is making significant investments, organically and through acquisitions and investments, to address the rapid pace of technological change in its served markets and to globalize its manufacturing, research and development and customer-facing resources (particularly in high-growth markets) to be responsive to the Company’s customers throughout the world and improve the efficiency of the Company’s operations.

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Business Performance and Outlook

During the first quarter of 2025, the Company’s overall revenues decreased 1