Danaher Corporation
Danaher Corporation is an American healthcare company headquartered in Washington, D.C.. It develops products used for advances in biotechnology, life sciences, and diagnostics. The company operates three divisions: biotechnology, which develops products for the development of therapeutics; life sciences, which develops products to identify causes of disease, new therapies, and to test and manufacture new drugs, vaccines and gene editing technologies; and diagnostics, which develops instruments, consumables, and software and services to diagnose diseases. Danaher was founded in 1984 by brothers Steven Rales and Mitchell Rales; it was named after Danaher Creek in Western Montana, where the brothers came up with the idea for the company while fishing.
If you'd bought from year…
Same habit, different start year. Each row shows what a constant habit's worth of DHR would be worth today, had you started buying at that point in the asset's history.
| Started | $6/day$6/day coffee | $42/wk$42/week coffee |
|---|---|---|
| Year 1 (1978) — listing | $44,726,153 623.8× | $64,961,369 624.9× |
| Year 6 (1983) | $20,607,177 314.0× | $29,904,467 314.4× |
| Year 11 (1988) | $4,830,887 83.2× | $6,988,561 83.0× |
| Year 16 (1993) | $1,591,338 31.5× | $2,304,704 31.5× |
| Year 21 (1998) | $533,674 12.5× | $775,284 12.5× |
| Year 26 (2003) | $265,041 7.5× | $384,401 7.5× |
| Year 31 (2008) | $135,031 4.9× | $195,911 4.9× |
| Year 36 (2013) | $49,880 2.5× | $72,283 2.5× |
| Year 41 (2018) | $13,889 1.1× | $20,259 1.1× |
| Year 46 (2023) | $4,235 0.8× | $6,188 0.8× |
Repeated investment, no fees, dividends reinvested. $6/day coffee = $180 / month equivalent.
Headquarters
Washington, D.C., United States
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For illustration only — not investment advice. Past performance is not indicative of future results.