Mettler-Toledo International Inc (MTD) — chart, structure and Closelook read

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Company snapshot — Mettler-Toledo International Inc

MTD in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Mettler-Toledo makes precision instruments used in laboratories, factories and shops: balances, pipettes, titrators, pH meters, spectrophotometers, moisture analysers and industrial weighing and inspection equipment such as scales, metal detectors and x-ray checkweighers. It also sells software, including a platform called LabX, that runs alongside its instruments to manage data and automate testing. Customers span pharmaceutical and biotech firms, food producers and retailers, chemical companies, and logistics and electronics businesses. It is headquartered in Greifensee, Switzerland.
Where it sits in the stack
Mettler-Toledo carries no seat in our Rubin index, so it sits outside the AI build-out stack; the diary places it in the Diagnostics & Research part of the Healthcare sector, where it supplies measurement instruments rather than compute infrastructure.
Who it is priced against
The diary has no set peer group for this name in our records; the comparison the market draws most often is with Thermo Fisher Scientific and Danaher, both broader life-science instrument suppliers.
Why Closelook tracks it
It holds a seat in the S&P 500, which is the only Closelook index seat recorded for it; no Closelook score has been built for the name yet.
What the diary watches
Whether demand from pharmaceutical and food-industry customers for lab and industrial instruments holds up, since that spending pattern is what would change how the diary reads this name.

Mettler-Toledo International Inc (MTD) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for MTD, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Diagnostics & Research · United States · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Diagnostics & Research · United States

This name carries no Closelook score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against MTD on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 55/100 · S&P 500 fund at 58, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-17
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 94th percentile of the window, +2.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-17
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.00 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-17

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-18

Quick answers

What is Mettler-Toledo International Inc (MTD)?

Mettler-Toledo International Inc trades as MTD on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-18.

Is MTD in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Mettler-Toledo International Inc is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-18.

Where does MTD trade against its moving averages?

Bullish stack, 200-day still turning: Trades +3.1% vs the 50-day and +7.3% vs the 200-day average, 7.5% below the 52-week high and +37.9% off the 52-week low; a golden cross printed 17 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-17 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Mettler-Toledo International Inc do?

Mettler-Toledo makes precision instruments used in laboratories, factories and shops: balances, pipettes, titrators, pH meters, spectrophotometers, moisture analysers and industrial weighing and inspection equipment such as scales, metal detectors and x-ray checkweighers. It also sells software, including a platform called LabX, that runs alongside its instruments to manage data and automate testing. Customers span pharmaceutical and biotech firms, food producers and retailers, chemical companies, and logistics and electronics businesses. The diary has no set peer group for this name in our records; the comparison the market draws most often is with Thermo Fisher Scientific and Danaher, both broader life-science instrument suppliers.

Where does Mettler-Toledo International Inc sit in the AI build-out?

Mettler-Toledo carries no seat in our Rubin index, so it sits outside the AI build-out stack; the diary places it in the Diagnostics & Research part of the Healthcare sector, where it supplies measurement instruments rather than compute infrastructure. It holds a seat in the S&P 500, which is the only Closelook index seat recorded for it; no Closelook score has been built for the name yet.

Where has Closelook written about Mettler-Toledo International Inc?

Mettler-Toledo International Inc appears in 1 Closelook piece, most recently Daily Pulse: Friday flips broadly risk-off — Korea −6.1%, Temperature still 57 (2026-05-18). The "Mentioned on Closelook" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for MTD, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Mentioned on Closelook 1 piece · newest: Daily Pulse, “Friday flips broadly risk-off — Korea −6.1%, Temperature still 57” (2026-05-18)

Mentioned on Closelook

Where MTD appears in the diary — 1 piece, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Diagnostics & Research. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.