Charles River Laboratories International, Inc.

CRL · Healthcare

$301.79
+1.27% today

What a holder would want to know before buying CRL: where the price sits in its own history, how far it has fallen before and whether it recovered, and what the business behind it earns. All of it is arithmetic over free market data — no opinions, no recommendations.

Where the price sits
Low $149.93 · May 2026High $310.77 · Oct 2026

Today’s price is 101% above the lowest point of the past year and 3% below the highest.

Over the past year it was cheaper than today on 99% of days and more expensive on 1%. Over the last 10 years: cheaper on 91% of days.

42% above its average price of the last 200 trading days.

How bad does it get

Fell 20% or more 4 times in 10 years. The deepest fall was 78%; the longest took 6 months to get back to its peak. 3 of 4 have recovered so far.

It is in one now: 34% below the Sep 2021 peak.

Sep 2021
−78%not back yet
Feb 2020
−45%back in 3 months
Dec 2018
−24%back in 2 months
Aug 2016
−24%back in 6 months
What you own

Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. · Healthcare · Diagnostics & Research · a large company worth $14.54B

Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. provides drug discovery, non-clinical development, and safety testing services in the United States, Europe, Canada, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. The Research…

Is it making money?
2022
2023
2024
2025

revenue profit

Sales of $4.02B in 2025, and a loss of $144.34M. Sales grew in 1 of the last 3 years.

Loses money on its sales at the moment.

Is it healthy?
Cash
$192.02M
Debt
$3.03B
Free cash flow / yr
$468.86M

Would need about 6.5 years of free cash flow to repay all its debt.

Is it expensive?

Not profitable over the last year. You pay $24 for every $1 of profit expected next year.

A high number means buyers expect growth; a low one means they expect little, or fear trouble. Large US companies have averaged roughly 15–20 over the decades.

Pays no dividend.

What others are doing

18 analysts: 15 say buy, 2 hold, 1 sell. Their average 12-month target is $310.53 (range $145.00–$357.00).

Insiders made 0 purchases and 11 sales in the last 6 months. Executives routinely sell shares they were paid in; buying with their own money is the rarer signal.

Free data from Yahoo Finance, refreshed daily. This is evidence about the business and its price history, not a recommendation.

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