Thermo Fisher Scientific : shares poised for strong gains - Barron's

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. specializes in the design, manufacturing and marketing of laboratory and scientific equipments. Net sales (including intragroup) break down by family of products as follows: - laboratory equipments (70%). Moreover, the group proposes chemical products (reagents, solvent, salts, etc.), consumable products (tubes, funnels, vials, etc.), as well as conditioning, warehousing, storage, etc.; - diagnostics equipment and products (15.3%); - scientific analysis equipments (14.7%): analyzer (of water, gas, grounds, etc.), mass spectrometers, molecular spectroscopes, microscopes, manometers, samplers, microbiology equipments, reactive agents, etc. Net sales break down by source of income into products sales (78.5%) and services (21.5%). Net sales break down geographically as follows: North America (53%), Europe (25.7%), Asia-Pacific (18.1%) and others (3.2%).