{"id":302878,"date":"2026-02-17T17:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/302878\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T17:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:51:07","slug":"danaher-to-buy-masimo-in-9-9-billion-deal-in-diagnostics-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/302878\/","title":{"rendered":"Danaher to buy Masimo in $9.9 billion deal in diagnostics push"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Masimo logo is displayed at Masimo headquarters on December 27, 2023 in Irvine, California. <\/p>\n

Mario Tama | Getty Images<\/p>\n

Danaher<\/a> will acquire pulse oximeter maker Masimo<\/a> in a $9.9 billion deal, as the life science firm looks to bulk up its diagnostics portfolio.<\/p>\n

The companies said on Tuesday that Danaher will pay $180 per share to buy Masimo. The offer represents a premium of 38.3% to Masimo’s last close.<\/p>\n

This is Danaher’s biggest deal since its $5.7 billion purchase of protein consumables maker Abcam in 2023.<\/p>\n

Life science firms have been grappling with uncertainty around drug pricing regulations in the U.S., potential tariff policies and softer academic and government research funding.<\/p>\n

Acquiring Masimo would allow Danaher, which provides tools and technologies that help pharmaceutical companies develop and make drugs, to expand into patient-monitoring products such as oximeters.<\/p>\n

Masimo’s non-invasive pulse oximeters will complement Danaher’s invasive Radiometer blood analyzer devices.<\/p>\n

Shares of Masimo, which has been in a long legal battle with iPhone maker Apple<\/a> over patents, rose 34.3% to $174.89 in premarket trading, while Danaher’s stock fell 6.1%.<\/p>\n

A federal jury in California ordered Apple to pay Masimo $634 million for infringing the patent covering blood-oxygen reading technology in November.<\/p>\n

Masimo recently transformed itself into a “pure-play” med-tech firm after selling its Sound United unit, which held audio brands Denon and Marantz, to Samsung’s Harman last year for $350 million.<\/p>\n

Danaher and Masimo expect the deal to close by the second half of 2026.<\/p>\n

Masimo is expected to add to Danaher’s adjusted diluted net earnings per common share by $0.15 to $0.20 in the first full year and about $0.70 in the fifth full year following completion of the acquisition.<\/p>\n

Masimo has a market capitalization of about $7 billion, while Danaher is valued at over $150 billion, according to Reuters calculations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Masimo logo is displayed at Masimo headquarters on December 27, 2023 in Irvine, California. Mario Tama |…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1646,72,122,57864,103,397,2690,396,61,60,143108,1951],"class_list":{"0":"post-302878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-apple-inc","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-business-news","11":"tag-danaher-corp","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-health-care","14":"tag-health-care-industry","15":"tag-healthcare","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-masimo-corp","19":"tag-mergers-and-acquisitions"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}