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STERIS plc

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What Do They Do?

Sells infection-prevention products and sterilization equipment to healthcare providers and medical-device and pharmaceutical manufacturers, and provides related services.

How Do They Make Money?

Product customers pay for consumables and equipment when shipped or received, with integrated equipment billed after installation. Service work is billed when completed, while outsourced reprocessing and maintenance agreements are billed over their terms.

revenue
SegmentShareRevenue
Product
Sold outright

52%
FY2023: 52%
Service
Mix

48%
FY2023: 48%

Who Are Their Customers?

Products are sold to end users as well as dealers and distributors, which market and sell them.

Do Revenues Turn Into Profits?

Yes. It kept 13 cents of every revenue dollar as net income in FY2026 and turned 16 cents into free cash flow.

Operating income, FY2026
19% of revenue
▲ +27% vs FY2025 ($866.6M, 16%)
Net income, FY2026
13% of revenue
▲ +27% vs FY2025 ($614.6M, 11%)
Free cash flow, FY2026
16% of revenue
▲ +25% vs FY2025 ($778M, 14%)

How Are They Changing?

Since the FY2026 annual report
Latest quarter: Q1 FY2027, the three months to Jun 30, 2026
Revenue
▲ +7%
vs $1.4B in Q1 FY2026
Net income
▲ +13%
vs $177.4M in Q1 FY2026
Product share of revenue vs 49.6% in Q1 FY2026
  • Aug 5, 2026 Reiterated fiscal 2027 revenue and adjusted earnings guidance Maintained revenue growth guidance of 7-8% and adjusted earnings per share guidance of $11.10 to $11.30.

Growing. Revenue grew 41% in 4 years, from $4.2B in FY2022 to $5.9B in FY2026, about 9% a year.

Dental business sale The earlier report described dental instruments, infection-prevention products and instrument-management systems for dental practitioners and schools; the latest report excludes the Dental segment after its sale.

Life Sciences customer scope The latest report describes Life Sciences as supporting medical-device manufacturing as well as biopharmaceutical manufacturing; the earlier report focused on pharmaceutical manufacturing, primarily vaccine and other biopharma customers.

Revenue over time
Product Service
$10B$5B$0

Who Do They Compete With?

Competes with 3M, Baxter, Boston Scientific, Belimed, Ecolab, Fortive, Getinge, Karl Storz, Olympus, Ruhof, SteelCo, Stryker, Skytron, Wassenburg, BBraun, Pentax, Sterigenics, Contec, Fedegari, and Stilmas

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