TacticScaleWhat Mettler-toledo International Does & How It Makes Money (MTD)
Updated October 2026 · reflects Mettler-toledo International's latest reported financials
Swiss maker of precision lab, industrial, and retail weighing instruments. It sells laboratory, industrial, and retail weighing instruments and related software through a direct sales force and distributors, and also earns revenue from services on its installed equipment.
How Mettler-toledo International makes money
It sells laboratory, industrial, and retail weighing instruments and related software through a direct sales force and distributors, and also earns revenue from services on its installed equipment.
What Mettler-toledo International does
Mettler-Toledo International Inc. is a precision instruments company headquartered in Greifensee, Switzerland, and incorporated in 1991. Its laboratory business includes balances, pipetting solutions, titrators, pH meters, process analytics sensors, thermal analysis systems, UV/VIS spectrophotometers, moisture analyzers, and cell counters. These are tied together by LabX, its software for managing instrument data and automating lab workflows. On the industrial side, it offers weighing terminals, vehicle scales, dimensional measurement, and product-inspection equipment such as metal detectors, x-ray systems, checkweighers, and camera-based imaging. It also provides retail weighing and labeling solutions, including AI image recognition for fresh goods. Customers include pharma and biotech companies, food manufacturers and retailers, chemical companies, logistics firms, and academia. It reaches them through direct sales and distributors, and reports five geographic segments: U.S., Swiss, Western European, Chinese, and Other Operations.
Products & services
- Laboratory balances
- Liquid pipetting solutions
- Titrators and pH meters
- LabX laboratory software
- Metal detectors, x-ray systems and checkweighers
- Retail weighing and AI fresh-goods recognition solutions
What is Mettler-toledo International worth?
On an owner-earnings DCF, Mettler-toledo International's most-likely value is about $1,082 versus a recent price near $1,550 (30% above fair value). But TacticScale only calls a stock undervalued when the price sits below its conservative no-growth floor (~$490) with a margin of safety — so the honest verdict here is “Fairly priced — no edge.” Fair value earns its keep only at the extremes, not in the wide middle.
Price sits in the normal range — fair value isn't actionable here; it earns its keep only when price drops below the no-growth floor, or runs to roughly double the optimistic case.
Analysis, not advice. Fair value is a margin-of-safety estimate from a deterministic owner-earnings DCF, not a price target or recommendation. See the full breakdown →
Related companies
Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO) · AMETEK (AME) · Fortive (FTV) · Waters (WAT) · Agilent Technologies (A)