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UPDATED: Nov 18, 2025

Stock Analysis

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Sotera Health
NASDAQ:SHC
$15.26
-$0.38 |-2.43%
Day Range:
$15.24 - $15.79
Market Cap:
4.33B
P/E Ratio:
76.2500
Avg Value:
$13.66
Year Range:
$9.53 - $17.78
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General Information
Sotera Health Co provides sterilization, analytical lab testing, and advisory services to help ensure that medical, pharmaceutical and food products are safe for healthcare practitioners, patients, and consumers.

The company operates in three segments: Sterigenics, Nordion, and Nelson Labs. Sterigenics provides outsourced terminal sterilization and irradiation services for medical device, pharmaceutical, food safety, and applications; Nordion provides Co-60 and gamma irradiators, which are the key components to the gamma sterilization process; and Nelson Labs provides outsourced microbiological and analytical chemistry testing for the medical device and pharmaceutical industries. Its geographical segments are the United States, Canada, Europe and other regions.

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Sotera Health (SHC) Stock Graph
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How We Grade Sotera Health (SHC)

We grade stocks based on past performance, their future growth potential, intrinsic value, dividend history, and overall financial health.

The chart below shows how we grade Sotera Health (SHC) across the board compared to its closest peers.

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Benzinga Edge Rankings

Benzinga Edge stock rankings give you four critical scores to help you identify the strongest and weakest stocks to buy and sell.

50.68

Growth measures a stock's combined historical expansion in earnings and revenue across multiple time periods, with emphasis on both long-term trends and recent performance.

16.34

Value is a percentile-ranked composite metric that evaluates a stock's relative worth by comparing its market price to fundamental measures of the company's assets, earnings, sales, and operating performance.

Momentum measures a stock's relative strength based on its price movement patterns and volatility over multiple timeframes, ranked as a percentile against other stocks.

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Peer Ratings

See how Sotera Health compares to its peers in these key performance metrics from Benzinga Rankings.

Top Peers
Value
Quality
Growth
Momentum
Short
Medium
Long
STVNStevanato Group
47.43
0
78.58
50.47
BRKRBruker
10.41
7.12
1.11
35.63
ADPTAdaptive Biotechnologies
0
0
0
95.25
TXG10x Genomics
0
0
53.96
87.59
Short: price trend over the last couple of months
Medium: price trend over the last couple of quarters
Long: price trend over the past year
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Future Growth
Our estimate of future price growth is based on an aggregation of 4 analyst ratings over the past 3 months and their 12-month price targets.

Below, you can see that analysts are estimating a 12-month price target range of $16.00 - $20.00 with an average of $18.20

19.27%
Expected movement for Sotera Health (SHC) over the next 12 months
Based on these rankings

Recent Ratings for Sotera Health (SHC)

JP Morgan
Date:
Nov 5, 2025
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$14.00
New Target:
$16.00
Barclays
Date:
Nov 5, 2025
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$19.00
New Target:
$20.00
Piper Sandler
Date:
Nov 5, 2025
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$15.00
New Target:
$17.00
Barclays
Date:
Oct 2, 2025
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$17.00
New Target:
$19.00
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Valuation

Earnings History (3 years)

It is important to look at a companies earnings history to see not only if they are profitable, but if their earnings are growing.
As you can see from the chart above, SHC's earnings have decreased for the past three years, this is a negative sign for the stock.
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Financial Health
What is the current state of the company's financial situation?

We measure the health of a company based on how profitable they are and their ability to cover both their short-term and long-term debts. The key indicators that we use are the Operating Margin, Quick Ratio, and Debt-to-Equity ratio relative to the companies peers

Operational Margin 0.3571

The operating margin measures how much profit a company makes after it spends money on wages, materials or other administrative expenses but before interest and taxes. It is a good representation of how efficiently a company is able to generate profit from its core operations.

Quick Ratio 2.0395

The quick ratio measures how much of a company's debt, that is due in less than 1 year, can be covered using its cash equivalents, marketable securities, and money that is currently owed to them (accounts receivables).

A company with a quick ratio of less than 1.00 does not, in many cases, have the capital on hand to meet its short-term obligations if they were all due at once, while a quick ratio greater than one indicates the company has the financial resources to remain solvent in the short term.

Debt-to-Equity 4.7881

Debt-to-equity is calculated by dividing a company's total liabilities by its shareholders equity. It is a measure of the degree to which a company is financing its operations through debt versus wholly owned funds. Generally speaking, a D/E ratio below 1.0 would be seen as relatively safe, whereas ratios of 2.0 or higher would be considered risky.

The chart above shows Sotera Health (SHC) operating margin, quick ratio, and debt-to-equity ratio compared to its peers. The black markers represent the peer averages for each ratio and the blue bars represent Sotera Health (SHC) ratio values.
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Past Performance
How has Sotera Health (SHC) performed over the past 5 years?

The two main factors that we consider when analyzing past performance is overall return and volatility

Using these two metrics, we can determine if this stock gave its investors enough return for the risk that they took on by owning it. This is measured by the sharpe ratio, which has been used as a primary measure of risk/reward trade-off for almost 60 years.

This ratio can be interpreted as the amount of return an investor has received for the amount of risk that they took on by owning the stock over that timeframe.

Sotera Health (SHC) sharpe ratio over the past 5 years is -0.4980 which is considered to be below average compared to the peer average of -0.3818