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United States · Large Cap · listed since 1999 · Revenue 12 mo. $7.4B
Price as of 11/06/2026
Agilent Technologies, Inc. provides application focused solutions to the life sciences, diagnostics, and applied chemical markets worldwide.
Agilent Technologies, Inc. provides application focused solutions to the life sciences, diagnostics, and applied chemical markets worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Life Sciences and Diagnostics Markets, Agilent CrossLab, and Applied Markets. The Life Sciences and Diagnostics Markets segment offers liquid chromatography systems and components; and liquid chromatography mass spectrometry systems. This segment is also involved in the genomics, contract development and manufacturing organization, pathology, companion diagnostics, and biomolecular analysis businesses. The Agilent CrossLab segment provides various services, including repairs, parts, maintenance, installations, training, compliance support, software as a service, asset management, consulting, and other custom services. This segment also offers consumables, including gas chromatography and liquid chromatography columns, sample preparation products, custom chemistries, and various laboratory supplies; software and informatics solutions comprising software for instrument control, data acquisition, data analysis, secure storage of results, and laboratory information and workflow management; and OpenLab laboratory software, an open software platform that enables customers to capture, analyze, and share scientific data throughout the lab and across the enterprise. In addition, it provides automated sample preparation solutions, such as liquid handling, plate management, consumables, and scheduling software. The Applied Markets segment offers products in the areas of gas chromatography, mass spectrometry, spectroscopy, vacuum technology, and remarketed instruments. It markets its products through direct sales, distributors, resellers, manufacturer's representatives, and electronic commerce. Agilent Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
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Summary
53.0 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
If free cash flow stays at €1B (2025), it supports €11.5B. The remaining €33.5B of the market value assume it grows 19.0% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
19.0%
no growth afterwards
Price to operating cash flow 30.7×, above its usual range.
Middle half of 20 quarters: 22.2× to 27.4×, median 24.4×.
Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
with respect to the priced-in expectation
Since the last quarter
Q2 → Q3 2026
5 more unchanged: Revenue, 12 mo., Gross margin, EBIT margin, Shares outstanding, Return on equity
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | 19.33% | 11.52% | Rank 77 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 34.64% | 32.55% | Rank 53 |
| EBIT margin | 21.29% | 18.31% | Rank 67 |
| FCF margin | 16.58% | 14.12% | Rank 57 |
| Gross margin | 52.43% | 60.99% | Rank 37 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | 6.73% | 8.04% | Rank 44 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per year | 3.15% | 5.44% | Rank 47 |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per year | 14.77% | 7.00% | Rank 68 |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 5.86% | 3.66% | Rank 72 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 2.63% | 2.90% | Rank 42 |
| FCF yield | 2.30% | 3.63% | Rank 27 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 7.44 | 4.03 | Rank 26 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 34.93 | 21.73 | Rank 18 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | 8.88% | 8.66% | Rank 51 |
| Share price, 6 months | 51.63% | 24.27% | Rank 88 |
| Share price, 3 months | 24.85% | 15.42% | Rank 80 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −3.70% | −7.35% | Rank 67 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | 1.12% | 0.30% | Rank 44 |
| Change in share countlower is better | −2.41% | 0.00% | Rank 82 |
| Dividend streak in years | – | 10 | Rank 13 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | 1.22% | 0.05% | Rank 60 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 52.97% | 48.40% | Rank 57 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | 0.85 | 1.11 | Rank 56 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 0.50 | 0.48 | Rank 50 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 32.71% | 31.42% | Rank 46 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, $B | EBIT margin | FCF | Shares | Net debt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 4.2 | 14.6% | $654.0M | 329M | −$377.0M |
| 2017 | 4.5 | 18.8% | $713.0M | 326M | −$667.0M |
| 2018 | 4.9 | 18.4% | $910.0M | 325M | −$448.0M |
| 2019 | 5.2 | 18.2% | $865.0M | 318M | $1.0B |
| 2020 | 5.3 | 15.9% | $802.0M | 312M | $918.0M |
| 2021 | 6.3 | 21.3% | $1.3B | 307M | $1.2B |
| 2022 | 6.8 | 23.6% | $1.0B | 300M | $1.7B |
| 2023 | 6.8 | 19.8% | $1.5B | 296M | $1.1B |
| 2024 | 6.5 | 22.9% | $1.4B | 291M | $2.2B |
| 2025 | 6.9 | 21.3% | $1.2B | 284M | $1.6B |
3 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
Agilent Technologies Inc mainly meets criteria in the Profitability category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
Agilent Technologies Inc is rated here with the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
3 of 7 rules met
5 of 11 points
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Selected fundamental metrics for Agilent Technologies Inc.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 38.1 | 30.0 |
| P/B ratio | 7.4 | 4.8 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 19.3% | 11.5% |
| Equity ratio | 53.0% | 48.4% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 0.50 | 0.48 |
| Dividend yield | 0.6% | 1.3% |
How comparable stocks in the same sector score in the StockScorer model.
| Symbol | Company | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| A | Agilent Technologies Incthis page | |
| NTRA | Natera Inc | locked |
| IQV | IQVIA Holdings Inc | Low4.5 |
| WAT | Waters Corporation | Low4.5 |
| IDXX | IDEXX Laboratories Inc | locked |
| ILMN | Illumina Inc | locked |
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