MTD
Mettler-Toledo International Inc.Evidence as of 2026-09-02Moneyta sentiment
Where the published evidence leans after the desk debated it — not a rating or a recommendation.
+0.0 on a −2 to +2 scale — was +0.1 before the debate changed the read.
What builds the score
Solid bars are analyst rubric scores; faded bars are computed directly from data. Claims dropped in debate count for nothing; weakened claims count at half weight.
Editor's note
Written after the debate settled — the rest of the page is the evidence behind it.
Evidence balance: Mixed (+0.0 of a possible +2; was +0.1 before debate) · confidence high. Reported revenues across the recent filings show quarter-to-quarter variation: 883,744,000 USD in Q1 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-03-31), 1,027,314,000 USD in Q2 2024 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-06-30), and 1,029,699,000 USD in Q3 2025 (fiscal quarter ended 2025-09-30), with matching gross-profits implying margins near the high 50s to low 60s (for example, 525,879,000 USD gross profit on 883,744,000 USD revenue = 59.5% in Q1 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-03-31), and 650,218,000 USD / 1,027,314,000 USD = 63.3% in Q2 2024 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-06-30)).
Profitability and capital return signals are consistent with the reported numbers: net income rose from 169,454,000 USD in Q1 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-03-31) to 232,899,000 USD in Q2 2024 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-06-30), with diluted EPS moving from 8.33 USD/share to 11.55 USD/share, while shares outstanding fell from 20,916,459 to 20,036,559 over the snapshot dates and repurchase cash of 218,749,000 USD and 206,250,000 USD was recorded in two reported three‑month periods. The filings also disclose a one‑time tariff-related gross benefit of 52.4 million USD (with related customer refunds of 27.8 million USD) affecting cost of sales, and that U.S. Customs and Border Protection returned 42.9 million USD (including interest) during the three months ended June 30, 2026.
How this note was made
every stage ran before the note was writtenAnalyst desk
Mercer, Oakes, Nash, Ellis, Yates, Talbot and Archer. The desk: named AI agents, not people. Each reads one slice of the evidence and nothing else — no outside knowledge, no browsing — so every finding traces to a source you can open.
Reads the XBRL figures companies file with the SEC — revenue, margins, income, debt and share count, quarter by quarter — and reports which way the trend is running.
Reported quarterly revenues in the provided filings were: 883,744,000 USD for the period "Q1 2026 (2025-01-01 to 2025-03-31, 3mo)", 983,221,000 USD for the period "Q2 2024 (2025-04-01 to 2025-06-30, 3mo)", 1,029,699,000 USD for the period "Q3 2025 (2025-07-01 to 2025-09-30, 3mo)", 947,127,000 USD for the period "Q1 2026 (2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31, 3mo)", and 1,027,314,000 USD for the period "Q2 2024 (2026-04-01 to 2026-06-30, 3mo)".
XBRL companyfacts · 0001037646-26-000021Gross profit and implied gross margin in matching quarters: 525,879,000 USD gross profit / 883,744,000 USD revenue = 59.5% for "Q1 2026 (2025-01-01 to 2025-03-31, 3mo)", 579,876,000 USD / 983,221,000 USD = 59.0% for "Q2 2024 (2025-04-01 to 2025-06-30, 3mo)", 609,456,000 USD / 1,029,699,000 USD = 59.2% for "Q3 2025 (2025-07-01 to 2025-09-30, 3mo)", 555,816,000 USD / 947,127,000 USD = 58.7% for "Q1 2026 (2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31, 3mo)", and 650,218,000 USD / 1,027,314,000 USD = 63.3% for "Q2 2024 (2026-04-01 to 2026-06-30, 3mo)".
XBRL companyfacts · 0001037646-26-000021Reads the filings themselves, above all the year-over-year diff of Item 1A risk factors: which risks a company added, dropped or quietly reworded since its last annual report.
Which filings the desk reads
The desk reads the annual 10-K in full — its risk factors, and how they changed since last year. Quarterly 10-Qs and event filings (8-Ks, insider Form 4s) are listed for context but not read line by line: the 10-K is where the material risk disclosures live. A brand-new company, or one we have only just begun tracking, may have no annual report on file yet — its risk analysis fills in once that lands.
The Form 10-Q filed July 31, 2026 reports a one-time gross tariff-related benefit of $52.4 million that reduced cost of sales for the three and six months ended June 30, 2026, with related customer refunds of $27.8 million that reduced net sales for those periods.
10-Q filed 2026-07-31The Form 10-Q filed July 31, 2026 states the company received $42.9 million (including interest) from U.S. Customs and Border Protection during the three months ended June 30, 2026 and concluded the remaining $9.5 million of refunds were realizable and subsequently received.
10-Q filed 2026-07-31Reads the signal panel above — momentum, volatility, drawdown, relative strength and beta — and ranks each against the whole research universe rather than judging it in isolation.
As of 2026-09-01, 3-month momentum was +17.6% and 12-1 momentum was +17.1%, with the 12-1 momentum at the 56th percentile of the 547-stock universe.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-09-01weakened in debatePrice was above both the 50-day and 200-day simple moving averages on 2026-09-01: price vs SMA50 +1.8% and price vs SMA200 +4.2%, and a golden cross flag is true with a cross age of 6 days.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-09-01Reads which funds hold the name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings, to show the exposure you may already carry through index funds.
Institutional 13F-reported holdings total $23.85B as of 2026-03-31, with 819 institutional holders and a reported quarter-over-quarter value change of -12.2%.
13F holdings · 819 filers · as of 2026-03-31Top reported institutional holders in the 13F for the period ended 2026-03-31 include BlackRock, Inc. at $2.23B, VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC at $1.67B (listed as a new position), Capital International Investors at $1.36B, VANGUARD PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT LLC at $1.26B (new), and STATE STREET CORP at $1.19B.
13F holdings · 819 filers · as of 2026-03-31Reads recent headlines that are genuinely about this company, ignoring rating chatter and market-wide stories. Findings argue in the debate but never move the sentiment score.
A headline focuses on Mettler-Toledo's price action and treats the stock's movements as inputs for institutional tactical models, emphasizing volatility as a trading trigger.
News · news.stocktradersdaily.com · 2026-09-02Railway Pension Investments Ltd increased its holdings in Mettler-Toledo by 327.2% during the second quarter, per a holdings report cited in the article.
News · thelincolnianonline.com · 2026-09-01Reads parsed Forms 3/4/5 — who bought or sold, at what size, and whether a 10b5-1 plan was involved. Flags clustered open-market officer buying; treats plan sales as routine and never counts a fund or 10%-holder as an officer.
Shawn Vadala (Chief Financial Officer) sold 2,240 shares for "$3.2M" on 2026-08-03.
Form 4 · Vadala Shawn (Chief Financial Officer) · $1.3M code M · 2026-08-03Patrick Kaltenbach (President and CEO) sold 942 shares for "$1.3M" on 2026-08-27.
Form 4 · Kaltenbach Patrick (President and CEO) · $965k code M · 2026-08-27Reads the implied-expectations math built from the company's own filings (the growth rate today's price would justify, and the multiples beside it) and argues whether the market's bar looks high or low for this business. Never turns the math into a target.
Share price was 1,375.96 per share on 2026-09-01 and the reported market capitalization is 27,569,503,722.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeThe price-to-earnings (TTM) ratio is 34.22.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeDebate and risk review
A bull and a bear contest the claims and the chair rules on each; the risk review stress-tests what survived.
A bull and a bear argue the analysts' claims across two rounds, then a chair rules on each one. Only what survives feeds the score — the argument is shown, not hidden, so you can judge the reasoning yourself.
The evidence set jointly supports a favorable read because reported gross margins have been consistently strong (≈59%+ across recent quarters) while reported net income and diluted EPS rose meaningfully in the latest quarter, and shares outstanding have declined alongside sizable share repurchases — all documented in company filings. Cost of sales as a percent of sales moved lower year-over-year in the June quarter and trailing cash from operations is sizable, which strengthens the earnings-quality interpretation in the filings. Market signals (positive short- and medium-term momentum, price above SMA50/200, golden cross) and inclusion in multiple large ETFs provide market demand/context that aligns with the fundamentals. The bear points about higher long-term debt, tariff-related accounting benefits, elevated volatility, institutional outflows, and insider dispositions are present in the evidence but are mixed in strength: debt rise is factually reported (strong evidence), the tariff benefit is disclosed as a one‑time item with related refunds (strong evidence of occurrence but moderate in interpreting ongoing impact), and insider sales and 13F outflows are documented but sourced to limited filings/news (moderate-to-weak evidence for implying negative conviction).
Chair's verdict, claim by claim
Fragility · computed, not argued
balanced0.31
38 surviving claims rest on 19 distinct sources; the heaviest analyst carries 18% of them, and 99% of what the desk raised survived the debate.
The evidence set rests on a moderate number of independent sources but a concentrated set of filings — most surviving points trace back to a handful of company reports. The fact that 99% of raised points survived debate increases confidence in internal consistency, but reliance on a few key filings and a single heavy analyst means the read is somewhat fragile to new primary disclosures or a targeted data correction.
Peer context · computed, not argued
12-1 momentum ranks 3rd of 4 in Diagnostics & Research (as of 2026-09-01).
90-day volatility ranks 1st of 4 in Diagnostics & Research (as of 2026-09-01).
Disconfirming evidence · base rates · falsifiers
Context
Outside consensus, and where this name already sits in your own portfolio.
Third-party consensus shown for context. It never enters Moneyta sentiment — when the two diverge, the debate above is where the why lives.
What this was built from
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15 filings· 2 cited
SEC XBRL filings
Quarterly figures as filed with the SEC, read straight from EDGAR's structured data — not retyped or estimated.
Read by Mercer+0.7 to the score
11 documents· 2 cited
SEC filing documents
The filings themselves, including the year-over-year comparison of Item 1A risk factors.
Read by Oakes+0.4 to the score
1 signal set
Moneyta signal set
Computed from our own end-of-day price history and ranked against the whole research universe. No AI involved.
Read by Nash+0.1 to the score
3 holdings records· 1 cited
Fund holdings
Which funds hold this name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings.
Read by Ellis−0.2 to the score
8 headlines· 2 cited
News coverage
Recent headlines about this company, rating chatter excluded and nothing published after the report date.
Read by Yatesnothing survived
11 filings· 2 cited
Insider filings
Parsed Forms 3/4/5 from EDGAR: named insiders, share counts, prices, and 10b5-1 plan state — stated and inferred flags kept apart.
Read by Talbot−0.8 to the score
1 computation
Valuation inputs
TTM cash-flow figures from the company's own XBRL filings, priced with the stored closing price. Implied growth and multiples only; no fair-value dollar figure reaches the desk, by design.
Read by Archercontext only
1 record· 0 cited
Company profile
Sector, industry and company details.
1 record· 0 cited
Analyst consensus
Third-party consensus, shown for context only — it never enters Moneyta sentiment.
Read means we pulled and handed it to an analyst; cited means a claim on this page points at it. Reading twelve quarters to state one trend is normal — the gap is shown rather than hidden.
Written by AI, checked against sources
The analysts, the bull–bear debate and the editor's note are AI agents reading only the evidence listed on this page. They can misread a filing or a headline, which is why every claim cites a source you can open and check yourself. The sentiment score is arithmetic over the claims that survived the debate, not a language model's opinion.
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