---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000313616-24-000004"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DHR"
cik: "0000313616"
company_name: "DANAHER CORP /DE/"
filed_at: "2024-01-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T02:40:35.764937+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Danaher Q4 2023 revenue to decline low-double digits; core revenue above prior guidance

## Summary
- Estimated Q4 2023 revenue decline low-double digits YoY (non-GAAP core revenue decline above prior high-teens guidance).
- Non-GAAP base business core revenue expected to decline mid-single digits, in line with prior guidance.
- President and CEO Rainer M. Blair to present at J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference on Jan 9, 2024.
- Full Q4 and FY 2023 earnings call scheduled for Jan 30, 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000313616-24-000004
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DHR
- cik: 0000313616
- company_name: DANAHER CORP /DE/
- filed_at: 2024-01-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/313616/000031361624000004/0000313616-24-000004-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/313616/000031361624000004/dhr-20240108.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000313616-24-000004.txt

## Key facts
- Earnings Releases
  DANAHER CORP /DE/ updated its the fourth quarter of 2023 guidance (reaffirmed).
  - Period: the fourth quarter of 2023
  - Guidance: reaffirmed
  - Result: preliminary results
  source text: On January 8, 2024, in advance of a public webcast presentation at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference on January 9, 2024 Danaher Corporation issued a press release regarding the Company’s anticipated financial performance for the fourth quarter of 2023
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/313616/000031361624000004/0000313616-24-000004-index.htm

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