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DHR vs IMAX

Side-by-side comparison of Danaher Corporation (DHR) and Imax Corporation (IMAX): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • DHR operates in Industrials, while IMAX operates in Consumer Discretionary - the two are in different parts of the market.
  • DHR is the larger of the two at $126.66B, about 60.6x IMAX ($2.09B).
  • Over the past year, DHR is down 10.7% and IMAX is up 49.0% - IMAX leads by 59.7 points.
  • DHR has been more active in the news (20 items in the past 4 weeks vs 13 for IMAX).
  • DHR has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 10 for IMAX).
PerformanceDHR-10.71%IMAX+48.96%
2025-05-01+0.00%2026-05-01
MetricDHRIMAX
Company
Danaher Corporation
Imax Corporation
Price
$175.72-1.79%
$35.96-5.44%
Market cap
$126.66B
$2.09B
1M return
-7.90%
-6.94%
1Y return
-10.71%
+48.96%
Industry
Industrial Machinery/Components
Industrial Machinery/Components
Exchange
NYSE
NYSE
IPO
News (4w)
20
13
Recent ratings
25
10
DHR

Danaher Corporation

Danaher Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets professional, medical, industrial, and commercial products and services worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Life Sciences, Diagnostics, and Environmental & Applied Solutions. The Life Sciences segment provides mass spectrometers; cellular analysis, lab automation, and centrifugation instruments; microscopes; and genomics consumables. This segment also offers bioprocess technologies, consumables, and services; and filtration, separation, and purification technologies to the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical, food and beverage, medical, and life sciences companies, as well as universities, medical schools and research institutions, and various industrial manufacturers. The Diagnostics segment provides chemistry, immunoassay, microbiology, and automation systems, as well as hematology and molecular diagnostics products. This segment offers analytical instruments, reagents, consumables, software, and services for hospitals, physicians' offices, reference laboratories, and other critical care settings. The Environmental & Applied Solutions segment offers instrumentation, consumables, software, services, and disinfection systems to analyze, treat, and manage ultra-pure, potable, industrial, waste, ground, source, and ocean water in residential, commercial, industrial, and natural resource applications. This segment also provides instruments, software, services, and consumables for various color and appearance management, packaging design and quality management, packaging converting, printing, marking, coding, and traceability applications for consumer, pharmaceutical, and industrial products. The company was formerly known as Diversified Mortgage Investors, Inc. and changed its name to Danaher Corporation in 1984. Danaher Corporation was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Washington, the District of Columbia.

IMAX

Imax Corporation

IMAX Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an entertainment technology company worldwide. It offers cinematic solution comprising proprietary software, theater architecture, intellectual property, and specialized equipment. The company offers IMAX Digital Re-Mastering (DMR), a proprietary technology that digitally enhances the image resolution, visual clarity, and sound quality of motion picture films for projection on IMAX screens; IMAX theater systems to exhibitor customers through sales, leases, and joint revenue sharing arrangements; digital projection systems; a digital theater control systems; and a digital audio systems. It also provides proactive and emergency maintenance services to the IMAX network; licenses film content and distributes large-format documentary films; film post-production and quality control services for large-format films, and digital post-production services; owns and operates IMAX theaters; and rents 2D and 3D large-format film and digital cameras, as well as offers production advice and technical assistance services to documentary and Hollywood filmmakers. The company markets its theater systems through a direct sales force and marketing staff to science and natural history museums, zoos, aquaria, and other educational and cultural centers, as well as theme parks, private home theaters, tourist destination sites, fairs, and expositions. It owns or otherwise has rights to trademarks and trade names, which include IMAX, IMAX Dome, IMAX 3D, IMAX 3D Dome, Experience It in IMAX, The IMAX Experience, An IMAX Experience, An IMAX 3D Experience, IMAX DMR, DMR, IMAX nXos, and Films To The Fullest. As of December 31, 2020, the company had a network of 1,650 IMAX theater systems comprising 1,562 commercial multiplexes, 12 commercial destinations, and 76 institutional facilities operating in 81 countries and territories. IMAX Corporation was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Mississauga, Canada.