Danaher had a disappointing 2024. Its path to success next year goes through Wall Street

A pickup in the initial public offering market would be a boon to Danaher.

Danaher had a disappointing 2024. Its path to success next year goes through Wall Street

A worker uses a machine made by Pall Corp. during a demonstration of the clarification stage of the production of influenza vaccine during a tour at a Sanofi Pasteur vaccine production facility in Swiftwater, Pennsylvania.

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Life sciences firm Danaher has certainly not been an easy stock to own this year. A wave of startups going public on Wall Street would go a long ways toward changing that.