Forensic Analysis · Industrials / Manufacturing / Defense · as of Aug 8, 2026

Mettler Toledo International Inc/ (MTD)

A forensic read on Mettler Toledo International Inc/ built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.

A · High-quality compounder

Forensic grade

Safe

Financial health

18.4

Distress distance

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

32.7

P / E (ttm)

$28.6B

Market cap

4.0%

Revenue growth

This free snapshot doesn't read filing or proxy text, so the auditor-quality and governance checks that can lower a grade were not evaluated (red flags, auditor quality, say on pay, board independence). Those checks only ever lower a grade, so the full analysis can land below the grade above but never above it — treat it as the most favourable reading, not the settled one.

Mettler Toledo International Inc/ earns an A (High-quality compounder) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 18.4, placing it in the Safe zone. 2 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by accruals ratio (% of noa).

What the filings flag

+12.0%

FY2024→FY2025

Accruals ratio (% of NOA). Net operating assets grew +12.0% relative to their own average in FY2025 — scaled by NOA itself, not total assets (see the Forensic Screens card's differently-scaled Sloan Accrual Ratio for that read). Accruals are building faster than is comfortable — part of profit is sitting in the balance sheet rather than turning to cash. The build is led by receivables up +13% against revenue +4% and inventory up +13% against +6% in cost of sales. The cash-flow cross-check is more mixed: reported earnings ran in line with operating cash by 4% of net operating assets, diverging from the balance-sheet accrual read.

94% of FCF

FY2025

Shareholder returns. Returned $800M to shareholders (buybacks + dividends) in FY2025 — 94% of free cash flow. Right at the limit of what free cash flow covers — little room before it's funded by debt or the balance sheet. That ratio has actually been EASING, not tightening further — down from ~149% of free cash flow a few years back. Counting the $23M of stock-based comp paid out in shares on top of that, the combined claim on free cash flow is 97%.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$4.03B

Revenue Growth YoY+4.0%

Revenue CAGR (3yr)+0.9%

Net Margin21.6%

Free Cash Flow$848.6M

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Aug 8, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.