BIO-BHIGH SIGNALFINANCIAL10-K

Bio-Rad experienced a dramatic decline in operating income while maintaining healthy cash generation and balance sheet growth.

The steep drop in operating profitability despite growing assets and cash flow suggests significant one-time charges, restructuring costs, or margin compression that requires immediate investor attention. The company's ability to generate strong operating cash flow and continue aggressive share repurchases indicates underlying business resilience, but the operating income collapse demands explanation.

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FINANCIAL ANALYSIS

Bio-Rad's financial profile presents a stark contrast between operational struggles and underlying strength. Operating income collapsed substantially year-over-year, signaling major profitability challenges or significant non-recurring expenses. However, the company demonstrated financial resilience with operating cash flow growing 16.9% to $532.2M and total assets expanding 12.9% to $10.6B, while shareholders' equity increased 13.5% to $7.5B, suggesting the business fundamentals remain intact despite the earnings headwinds.

FINANCIAL STATEMENT CHANGES
Operating Income
P&L
-82.5%
$269.0M→$47.2M

Operating income deteriorated sharply — investigate whether driven by one-time charges or structural cost issues.

Share Buybacks
Cash Flow
+45.1%
$203.6M→$295.5M

Share repurchases increased 45.1% — management returning capital, signals confidence in intrinsic value.

Operating Cash Flow
Cash Flow
+16.9%
$455.2M→$532.2M

Operating cash flow grew 16.9% — strong conversion of earnings to cash, healthy business fundamentals.

Stockholders Equity
Balance Sheet
+13.5%
$6.6B→$7.5B

Equity base grew 13.5% — retained earnings accumulation or equity issuance strengthening the balance sheet.

Total Assets
Balance Sheet
+12.9%
$9.4B→$10.6B

Asset base grew 12.9% — expansion through organic growth, acquisitions, or capital deployment.

Total Liabilities
Balance Sheet
+11.7%
$2.8B→$3.1B

Liabilities increased 11.7% — monitor debt-to-equity ratio and interest coverage.

Current Liabilities
Balance Sheet
+10.5%
$467.8M→$517.0M

Current liabilities rose 10.5% — increased short-term obligations, watch current ratio.

LANGUAGE CHANGES
NEW — 2026-02-13
PRIOR — 2025-02-14
ADDED
As of February 9, 2026, there were 21,924,284 shares of Class A Common Stock and 5,066,110 shares of Class B Common Stock outstanding.
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations 27 Item 7A.
(referred to in this report as Bio-Rad, we, us, the Company, and our ) is a multinational life science and clinical diagnostics company that develops, manufactures, and markets a broad portfolio of instruments, systems, reagents, and consumables.
We have direct operations in over 36 countries outside the United States through subsidiaries focused on sales, customer service, and product distribution.
In certain locations outside and within these countries, our sales efforts are supplemented by distributors and agents.
We generated approximately 40% of our consolidated net sales for the year ended December 31, 2025 from the U.S.
and approximately 60% from our international locations, with Europe being our largest international region.
3 Life Science Segment Our Life Science segment develops, manufactures, and markets instruments, systems, reagents, and consumables used to separate, purify, characterize, and quantify biological materials, including cells, proteins, and nucleic acids.
These products are utilized in research and biopharmaceutical laboratory environments, as well as in biopharmaceutical manufacturing, quality control processes, food safety testing, and science education applications.
We serve the research market, where our products are applied to support the progression of scientific discovery from early research through clinical and applied use.
REMOVED
As of February 11, 2025, there were 22,940,805 shares of Class A Common Stock and 5,070,337 shares of Class B Common Stock outstanding.
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations 25 Item 7A.
(referred to in this report as Bio-Rad, we, us, the Company and our ) is a multinational developer, manufacturer, and worldwide distributor of our own life science research and clinical diagnostics products.
Bio-Rad develops, manufactures, and supplies life science research, healthcare, analytical chemistry and other markets with a broad range of products and systems used to separate complex chemical and biological materials and to identify, analyze and purify their components.
We have direct distribution channels in over 36 countries outside the United States through subsidiaries whose focus is sales, customer service and product distribution.
In some locations outside and inside these 36 countries, sales efforts are supplemented by distributors and agents.
We generated approximately 41% of our consolidated net sales for the year ended December 31, 2024 from the U.S.
and approximately 59% from our international locations, with Europe being our largest international region .
Life Science Segment Our Life Science segment is at the forefront of discovery, creating advanced tools to answer complex biological questions.
These instruments, systems, reagents, and consumables are typically used to separate, purify, characterize, or quantify biological materials such as cells, proteins, and nucleic acids in the research laboratory or 3 biopharmaceutical laboratory.
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