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StreetInsider.com  May 3  Comment 
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Market Intelligence Center  May 1  Comment 
Bruker BioSciences (NASDAQ: BRKR) closed Tuesday's trading session at $17.77. In the past year, the stock has hit a 52-week low of $9.91 and 52-week high of $19.46. Bruker BioSciences (BRKR) stock has been showing support around $17.34 and...
Market Intelligence Center  Apr 25  Comment 
Bruker BioSciences (NASDAQ: BRKR) closed Wednesday's trading session at $18.39. In the past year, the stock has hit a 52-week low of $9.91 and 52-week high of $19.46. Bruker BioSciences (BRKR) stock has been showing support around $18.22 and...
Market Intelligence Center  Apr 3  Comment 
Bruker BioSciences (NASDAQ: BRKR) closed Tuesday's trading session at $18.99. In the past year, the stock has hit a 52-week low of $9.91 and 52-week high of $19.46. Bruker BioSciences (BRKR) stock has been showing support around $18.44 and...
TheStreet.com  Mar 21  Comment 
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- CHANGE IN RATINGS Actuant was downgraded at Baird from outperform to neutral. Valuation call, based on a $33 price target. Stock has made a good run, but end-market strength remains uncertain, Robert Baird said....
Benzinga  Mar 21  Comment 
Jefferies analyst Jon Wood published a report on Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR) that upgraded its rating from Hold to Buy and raised the price target from $20 to $25. Jefferies reported that, “Formal 2013 outlook appears more than...
Market Intelligence Center  Mar 11  Comment 
Bruker BioSciences (NASDAQ: BRKR) closed Friday's trading session at $18.56. In the past year, the stock has hit a 52-week low of $9.91 and 52-week high of $18.78. Bruker BioSciences (BRKR) stock has been showing support around $18.26 and...
Forbes  Feb 21  Comment 
Bruker (BRKR) was upgraded by Bank of America/Merrill Lynch (BAC) from underperform to neutral with a price target of $19.50 due to improving fundamentals.
Benzinga  Feb 21  Comment 
Bank of America upgraded Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR) from Underperform to Neutral and raised the price objective from $15.00 to $19.50. Bank of America noted, "Although we've been positive on BRKR's technology and long-term outlook, we've...
StreetInsider.com  Feb 21  Comment 
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Bruker Bioscience manufactures scientific instruments for companies in life science, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, clinical and molecular diagnostics research, as well as in materials and chemical analysis. It develops products that utilize magnetic resonance technologies, mass spectrometry technologies, gas chromatography technologies, X-ray technologies, spark-optical emission spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy, stylus and optical metrology technology and infrared and Raman molecular spectroscopy technologies. They also manufacture superconducting materials and devices. Bruker Bioscience is a global company, but primarily sells it products in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Due to the capital intense nature of its products customers may defer spending in tough economic years or to the last part of the year, leading to seasonality and unpredictable revenues.[1]

Business Growth

For 2010 the company reported revenue of $1,304.9 million, up 17.1% as compared to 2009. This increase was due to revenues attributable to recent acquisitions, increases in sales of its core technologies, particularly in magnetic resonance, X-ray and mass spectrometry, and an increase in demand for its low temperature superconducting wire.[1]

Trends and Forces

Bruker's revenues can fluctuate according to capital spending patterns of customers

Bruker's customers often stock up on lab consumables and equipment at the end of the year, when funding is abundant (for example, NIH funding is distributed to labs towards the end of the calendar year). They may also defer the purchase of capital intensive equipment in slow years such as the 2008 financial crisis. Bruker's revenues thus fluctuate throughout the year and are strongest in the last quarter of the calendar year. NIH funding is not completely stable, either - economic pressures may result in a stagnation of NIH funding, which has been growing at 2-3% in the past few years, but is not expected to increase in the near future. Bruker's customers from academic and government research labs are directly affected by the limitations of NIH grant funding; a lack of funding results in fewer laboratory product and equipment purchases and adversely affects Bruker's sales revenues.[1]

Competition

Bruker competes with many companies that have signifcantly more financial, technical, and marketing capabilities. To be successful it must create products that can compete based on technolgy, speed to market, and cost. Some of its toughest competitors include[1]:



References

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