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Bio-Rad Reports Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year 2024 Financial Results

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HERCULES, Calif., February 13, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIO.B), a global leader in life science research and clinical diagnostics products, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2024.

Norman Schwartz, Bio-Rad’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, commented: "Bio-Rad demonstrated resilience and adaptability in 2024. While the biopharma headwinds dampened our Life Science segment results, our Clinical Diagnostics business returned to a more normalized growth rate, and our ongoing transformation initiatives and diligent cost management helped improve our gross margins." Mr. Schwartz continued: "We begin 2025 in a strong position and remain committed to advancing our transformation, margin expansion, commercial excellence, and long-term shareholder value creation. The anticipated acquisition of digital PCR developer Stilla Technologies furthers our planned transformation as it would support our customers’ increasingly diverse range of research and clinical diagnostic applications."

Financial Results Highlights

GAAP Results

 

Q4 2024

Q4 2023

Full-Year 2024

Full-Year 2023

Revenue (millions)

$

667.5

 

$

681.2

 

$

2,566.5

 

$

2,671.2

 

Gross margin

 

51.2

%

 

53.8

%

 

53.7

%

 

53.4

%

Income from operations (millions)

$

58.4

 

$

95.3

 

$

269.0

 

$

337.8

 

Operating margin

 

8.7

%

 

14.0

%

 

10.5

%

 

12.6

%

 

 

 

Non-GAAP Results

 

Q4 2024

Q4 2023

Full-Year 2024

Full-Year 2023

Revenue (millions)

$

667.5

 

$

681.2

 

$

2,566.5

 

$

2,671.2

 

Gross margin

 

53.9

%

 

54.4

%

 

55.0

%

 

54.2

%

Income from operations (millions)

$

92.1

 

$

105.3

 

$

331.3

 

$

378.9

 

Operating margin

 

13.8

%

 

15.5

%

 

12.9

%

 

14.2

%

 

The non-GAAP financial measures shown in the table above and discussed below exclude certain items detailed later in this press release under the heading "Use of Non-GAAP and Currency-Neutral Reporting." A reconciliation between historical GAAP operating results and non-GAAP operating results is provided following the financial statements that are part of this press release.

Fourth-Quarter 2024 Results

Fourth-quarter 2024 total net sales were $667.5 million, a decrease of 2.0 percent compared to $681.2 million reported for the fourth quarter of 2023. On a currency-neutral basis, quarterly sales decreased 2.3 percent compared to the same period in 2023. The decrease in net sales was driven by lower sales in our Life Science segment.