Balance Sheet: Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity
Quarterly Data
The balance sheet provides creditors, investors, and analysts with information on company resources (assets) and its sources of capital (its equity and liabilities). It normally also provides information about the future earnings capacity of a company assets as well as an indication of cash flows that may come from receivables and inventories.
Liabilities represents obligations of a company arising from past events, the settlement of which is expected to result in an outflow of economic benefits from the entity.
Danaher Corp., consolidated balance sheet: liabilities and stockholders’ equity (quarterly data)
US$ in millions
Based on: 10-Q (reporting date: 2026-06-26), 10-Q (reporting date: 2026-03-27), 10-K (reporting date: 2025-12-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2025-09-26), 10-Q (reporting date: 2025-06-27), 10-Q (reporting date: 2025-03-28), 10-K (reporting date: 2024-12-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2024-09-27), 10-Q (reporting date: 2024-06-28), 10-Q (reporting date: 2024-03-29), 10-K (reporting date: 2023-12-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2023-09-29), 10-Q (reporting date: 2023-06-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2023-03-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2022-12-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2022-09-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2022-07-01), 10-Q (reporting date: 2022-04-01), 10-K (reporting date: 2021-12-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-10-01), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-07-02), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-04-02).
The financial structure of the organization exhibits a long-term trend of equity expansion coupled with a volatile debt trajectory, culminating in a significant increase in total leverage toward the end of the analyzed period.
- Liability and Debt Trends
- Total liabilities demonstrated a general downward trajectory from early 2021, moving from approximately 35 billion USD to a low of 27.9 billion USD by December 2024. However, this trend reversed sharply in the final period, with total liabilities rising to 39.8 billion USD by June 2026. This surge is primarily driven by long-term debt, which declined from 20.3 billion USD in April 2021 to 15.5 billion USD in December 2024, before spiking to 25.1 billion USD by June 2026.
- Current liabilities remained relatively stable, generally fluctuating between 6.3 billion USD and 9.4 billion USD. A notable peak occurred in September 2023, driven by a temporary increase in notes payable and the current portion of long-term debt, which reached 2.5 billion USD during that quarter.
- Equity and Capital Structure
- Total stockholders' equity grew steadily from 40.4 billion USD in April 2021 to a peak of 53.5 billion USD in December 2023. This growth was fundamentally underpinned by a consistent increase in retained earnings, which rose from 28.7 billion USD to 48.2 billion USD over the full period, reflecting sustained profitability.
- A strategic shift in capital allocation is observed starting in December 2024 with the introduction of treasury stock. Buybacks increased rapidly from 8.2 billion USD in December 2024 to 12.3 billion USD by June 2026, offsetting some of the gains in total equity.
- Additional paid-in capital showed a general upward trend, though a significant reduction occurred between June 2023 and June 2024, followed by a recovery to 17.5 billion USD by June 2026.
- Overall Balance Sheet Position
- Total liabilities and stockholders' equity remained within a range of 75 billion USD to 87 billion USD for the majority of the period. The final quarter analyzed shows a substantial expansion of the total balance sheet to 92.4 billion USD, resulting from the simultaneous increase in long-term debt and the continued accumulation of retained earnings.
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