TMO

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

stock all instruments
+0.0
net board stance what this means
606.86
-1.1% · close 2026-09-08
+2% / +23% / +25%
1m / 3m / 12m
-67%
vs SPY since 2023-08-18
84%
of 52w range · -4.9% off high
0/3
hit rate as primary · α -36

Where we stand — 0 live ideas

No active idea holds this ticker. Anything below is history.

Where the winds are blowing

NET BOARD STANCE, LAST 60 EPISODES — rising = the besties are building this position, falling = abandoning it. Replayed from score_events; an idea counts from birth until its window closes.
PRICE VS SPY OVER THE SAME WINDOW, % — did the talk lead the tape or follow it?

Who's pushing which way

each voice's net push ON THIS TICKER — their most recent stance per idea × the idea's direction × strength, so supporting a bearish idea pushes down. Not conviction (that lives on the idea); this is direction of travel per person. what w= means

Friedberg
Friedberg w=0.87 equities
3 ideas (0 live) · last heard E224
+2
pushes up
Brad Gerstner
Brad Gerstner w=0.95 equities guest ×1.0
1 idea (0 live) · last heard E118
+2
pushes up
Sacks
Sacks w=0.97 politics-market
1 idea (0 live) · last heard E224
-1
pushes down

Track record on TMO

As a PRIMARY play the besties are 0 hit / 0 partial / 3 miss over 3 closed windows — credit 0.0, average α -36.4. Adjacent plays are listed but never scored.

ideacallplayverdictRαclosed
📈 Infrastructure-spend compounders are the best asset of 2023 ▲ LONG primary MISS -0.4% -22.8 2024-01-06
🏛️ Federal research funding retreats from universities ▼ SHORT primary MISS -25.3% -65.1 2026-04-19
📈 Life sciences stays funded through the bust - own the tools companies ▲ LONG primary MISS -3.0% -21.4 2023-10-01

The tape — what was actually said

every capture on any idea holding TMO, newest first · quotes verbatim, timestamps deep-link into the episode

Sacks Sacks support ×1 ▼ on 🏛️ Federal research funding retreats from universities E224 · 2025-04-19 ▶ 40:14
No one is saying that they have to get rid of DEI. They just have to give up their federal funding the way that Bob Jones University did.
Friedberg Friedberg support ×2 ▼ on 🏛️ Federal research funding retreats from universities E224 · 2025-04-19 ▶ 48:38
So the question today that's being asked is, should we be doing fundamental scientific research at universities given that over time the administrative overhead has grown and they're basically creating administrative workloads and employing people without necessarily having a market incentive?
Brad Gerstner Brad Gerstner support ×2 ▲ on 📈 Infrastructure-spend compounders are the best asset of 2023 E118 · 2023-03-03 ▶ 1:30:03
I would argue that it's not just the Chips Act. It's also IRA, which is another trillion dollars of funding for basically onshore and supply chains.
Friedberg Friedberg support ×2 ▲ on 📈 Infrastructure-spend compounders are the best asset of 2023 E110 · 2023-01-06 ▶ 1:05:00
I'll say what's an important trend I've seen across these companies, Danaher, Honeywell, Thermo Fisher, they buy small companies, they pay very little, and they immediately get massive return on invested capital, like they're in the high teens. So why get 5% on T-bills when you can get high teens, ROIC, on the management teams running these incredible platforms? So that's where I'm most excited for this year.
Friedberg Friedberg support ×2 ▲ on 📈 Life sciences stays funded through the bust - own the tools companies E98 · 2022-10-01 ▶ 18:49
And by the way, there's a lot of public companies to invest in, not on the primary basis, but that are tools companies that are benefiting greatly from the continued demand and growth in spending in that category.