Bruker Corporation is a leading global provider of scientific instruments and analytical solutions, catering primarily to the life sciences, materials research, and industrial sectors. The company specializes in advanced technologies that facilitate research and development, including mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic resonance, infrared spectroscopy, and X-ray diffraction. Bruker’s innovative products are essential for a wide range of applications, from drug discovery and environmental monitoring to quality control and materials characterization. Committed to enhancing scientific research and diagnostic capabilities, Bruker supports researchers and industries by delivering precise and reliable data for improved decision-making and insights. Read More
Shares of scientific instrument company Bruker (NASDAQ:BRKR).
fell 13.8% in the afternoon session after the company released disappointing preliminary second-quarter financial results, which pointed to a significant drop in earnings and a decline in organic revenue. The scientific instrument maker announced that it expects second-quarter revenue to be between $795 million and $798 million, roughly flat compared to the same period last year. However, on an organic basis, which excludes impacts from currency and acquisitions, revenue is projected to have declined by approximately 7%. The company also anticipates non-GAAP earnings per share (EPS) in the range of $0.32 to $0.34, a steep fall of about $0.19 from the prior year. Bruker attributed the weak performance to soft demand from academic institutions and a slowdown in the U.S. biopharma market, which impacted quarterly bookings.
Wall Street opened the week on a risk-on footing, with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 extending record highs as strong earnings reinforced confidence in corporate America and investors continued to shrug off trade tensions.
As we await the opening of the US market on Monday, let's delve into the pre-market session and discover the top gainers and losers shaping the early market sentiment.
Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR) today announced preliminary revenue for the second quarter ended June 30, 2025 in a range of $795 - $798 million, which implies approximately flat reported revenue year-over-year. Bruker estimates that its non-GAAP organic revenue in the second quarter of 2025 declined approximately 7% year-over-year, with constant-exchange rate revenue declining approximately 3%.
A number of healthcare stocks fell in the afternoon session after several negative developments weighed on the sector. Weakness in managed care providers was a significant factor, with companies like Elevance Health and Humana seeing declines due to an analyst downgrade and a lost lawsuit regarding Medicare bonus payments, respectively.
Personal health and wellness is one of the many secular tailwinds for healthcare companies. But financial performance has lagged recently as players offloaded surplus COVID inventories in 2023 and 2024, a headwind for overall demand.
The result? Over the past six months, the industry has tumbled by 6.3%. This performance is a stark contrast from the S&P 500’s 6.2% gain.
While strong cash flow is a key indicator of stability, it doesn’t always translate to superior returns.
Some cash-heavy businesses struggle with inefficient spending, slowing demand, or weak competitive positioning.
Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR) today announced the shipment and installation of the 15th InSight WLI 3D optical metrology system to a leading semiconductor manufacturer. The installation is part of a larger order from this semiconductor manufacturer for 27 Bruker optical metrology systems in 2025. This reflects the growing demand for high-performance metrology that can support advanced packaging requirements in the latest generation AI high-performance chip manufacturing processes.
As the Q1 earnings season wraps, let’s dig into this quarter’s best and worst performers in the research tools & consumables industry, including Bruker (NASDAQ:BRKR) and its peers.
Wall Street is overwhelmingly bullish on the stocks in this article, with price targets suggesting significant upside potential.
However, it’s worth remembering that analysts rarely issue sell ratings, partly because their firms often seek other business from the same companies they cover.
Scientific instrument company Bruker (NASDAQ:BRKR). reported Q1 CY2025 results beating Wall Street’s revenue expectations, with sales up 11% year on year to $801.4 million. The company’s full-year revenue guidance of $3.52 billion at the midpoint came in 0.9% above analysts’ estimates. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.47 per share was 5.9% above analysts’ consensus estimates.
Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR) today announced that its Applied Mass Spectrometry (Applied MS) division will present a powerful lineup of innovations at the 73rd American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Conference, taking place June 1–5, 2025, in Baltimore, Maryland. These developments reflect Bruker’s continued investment in applied markets, particularly in therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM), drugs of abuse (DoA) analysis and environmental analysis.
Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR) today announced the acquisition of biocrates life sciences ag, located in Innsbruck, Austria. Financial terms were not disclosed.
At the 73rd Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics (ASMS), Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR) today announced significant further advances in ultra-high sensitivity 4D-Proteomics™ with the introduction of the timsUltra AIP mass spectrometer. Its innovative, breakthrough Athena Ion Processor (AIP) technology further boosts the extreme sensitivity of timsTOF Ultra PASEF® methods for key biological and clinical research problems with very low sample amounts.
At the 73rd Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics (ASMS), Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR) today announced the new proteoElute nanoLC system, featuring ceramic valves, proteoTrap trapping columns, and next-generation PepSep Advanced nLC columns, further enhancing robustness, sensitivity and proteome coverage in ultra-sensitive proteomics workflows.
Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR) announced today that its senior leadership will participate in the Jefferies Global Healthcare Conference in New York City with a fireside chat presentation scheduled for Wednesday, June 4th, 2025 at 5:30 PM Eastern Time.
For the 73rd Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics (ASMS), Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR) announced the launch of the timsOmni™ system, a transformative new timsTOF-based mass spectrometer designed for scientific, drug discovery, and clinical researchers, as well as for advanced QC on biologics, offering deep structural insights into the functional or pathological proteoforms or oligonucleotides. Multimodal eXd trapping with precise electron energy control, ion accumulation, and reaction time regulation is a cornerstone innovation of the timsOmni™ platform. This also enables CIU, further expanding the value of proteoform CCS information, followed by multiple electron-based (ECD, EID) and collision-based (CID) fragmentation techniques. The timsOmni uniquely enables protein researchers and biologics developers to tailor information-rich dissociation pathways for deeper insights - with high speed and high sensitivity.
At the 73rd Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics (ASMS), Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR) launched timsMetabo, a peak-performance 4D-Metabolomics™ mass spectrometer delivering unprecedented sensitivity, separation power and annotation confidence for small molecules, further enhanced by the novel TIMS ‘MoRE’ scan-mode. The timsMetabo system enables the generation of a ‘digital metabolome archive’ for every sample, providing TIMS-enabled qual-quant performance with greatly increased confidence for automated annotation, leveraging 4D separations and reproducible molecular collision cross sections (CCS) at scale for 4D-Metabolomics and 4D-Lipidomics™.
Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR) today announced the launch of the MOVE-T, a state-of-the-art liquid dairy analyzer designed to elevate quality control standards in the dairy industry. Utilizing advanced Fourier Transform Near-Infrared (FT-NIR) technology, the MOVE-T provides unparalleled precision analyzing raw milk and other liquid dairy products, ensuring superior product quality and consistency.
