MLAB — Mesa Laboratories Inc

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About Mesa Laboratories Inc

Mesa Laboratories, Inc. develops, designs, manufactures, sells, and services life sciences tools and quality control products and services in North America, Europe, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. The Sterilization and Disinfection Control segment offers biological, chemical, and cleaning indicators, used to assess the effectiveness of sterilization decontamination, disinfection, and cleaning processes in the pharmaceutical, medical device… Read full Trend Edge analysis →

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Key Metrics

Current Price$106.17
Market Cap$603M
Float4.9M
Shares Outstanding5.5M
P/E (Forward)35.21
P/E (TTM)165.32
Price/Sales (TTM)2.44
vs. Analyst Target-1.6% to analyst PT
Profit Margin1.51%
Operating Margin (TTM)12.25%
Revenue (TTM)$248M
Earnings Growth (YoY)-28.70%
Dividend Rate0.6%
Analyst Target Price$104.50 (4 analysts)

Financial History

Annual Revenue & Earnings History

YearRevenueNet IncomeGross ProfitEBITDA
2020 $118M $1.8M $65.4M $22.4M
2021 $134M $3.3M $87.0M $28.0M
2022 $184M $1.9M $109M $32.5M
2023 $219M $930,000 $134M $37.5M
2024 $216M -$254M $133M -$238M
2025 $241M -$2.0M $151M $42.3M

Recent Quarterly Revenue & Net Income

QuarterRevenueNet Income
Mar 2025 $62.1M -$7.1M
Jun 2025 $59.5M $4.7M
Sep 2025 $60.7M $2.5M
Dec 2025 $65.1M $3.6M

Ownership & Float

Insider Ownership5.4%
Institutional Ownership93.6%
Short Float4.0%
% of All Funds Holding1.74%
Number of Funds Holding143

Current Moving Averages

Trend Edge tracks near-term, medium-term, cyclical, and secular moving averages across weekly and monthly timeframes to identify trend structure at every horizon.

TimeframeSMAValueTrend Context
Weekly10-Week SMA$98.92Near-term / short-term trend
Weekly40-Week SMA$83.34Medium-term trend
Weekly80-Week SMA$98.61Cyclical trend (business cycle)
Weekly200-Week SMA$118.70Secular trend (multi-year)
Monthly10-Month SMA$83.53Near-term monthly trend
Monthly20-Month SMA$99.03Medium-term monthly trend
Monthly40-Month SMA$109.86Secular monthly trend

Volume Shelves — Support & Resistance

Trend Edge identifies volume shelves: price zones where historically elevated trading volume creates structural support or resistance. A volume shelf forms when a disproportionate share of cumulative volume was transacted at a specific price level, making it a high-conviction anchor for future price reactions.

Price LevelTypeVolume RatioAge
$72.00 support 1.46x 5 months ago
$115.00 resistance 1.05x 11 months ago
$139.00 resistance 1.27x 13 months ago

Historical Earnings Reactions (107 events)

TimeframeAvg ReturnMedianWin RateBestWorst
Gap 0.05% 0.00% 48.60% 6.21% -13.29%
1 Day 0.56% 0.00% 49.53% 22.45% -10.02%
1 Week 0.07% 0.09% 50.94% 25.94% -20.37%
2 Weeks 0.46% -0.11% 48.11% 31.89% -15.79%
1 Month 0.97% 1.04% 52.83% 32.23% -21.55%

Next earnings: May 27, 2026

Seasonality & Day-of-Week Patterns

Monthly Seasonality

MonthAvg ReturnWin RateSamples
Jan3.5%66.7%42
Feb2.2%42.9%42
Mar1.7%41.9%43
Apr4.3%58.1%43
May0.7%40.5%42
Jun4.0%50.0%42
Jul-0.8%40.5%42
Aug-1.2%35.7%42
Sep-1.5%52.4%42
Oct0.8%57.1%42
Nov3.3%52.4%42
Dec0.1%42.9%42

Day-of-Week Tendencies

DayAvg ReturnWin RateSamples
Monday 0.13% 35.3% 2010
Tuesday 0.04% 37.2% 2182
Wednesday 0.07% 37.5% 2179
Thursday 0.09% 35.8% 2140
Friday 0.15% 35.8% 2129

Top Institutional Holders

Institutional holder breakdown coming soon.

Total institutional ownership: 93.6%

Insider Transactions — Smart Summary

Total insider ownership: 5.4%

12-Month Insider Activity Summary

Total Filings6
Net Value-$296,501.254
Net Shares Change9,980
% of Float0.2%
C-Suite Filings3
Clusters Detected2

Key Insiders

NameTitleNet ValueFilingsActivity
Ladiwala Shiraz Shabanali +$252,805 1 1 buy
Owens Gary M President and CEO -$188,311.802 1 1 sell
Tripeny R Tony +$99,940 1 1 buy
Capone Mark Christopher +$99,331.35 1 1 buy
Sakys John CFO -$62,349.756 1 1 sell
Archbold Brian David SVP Operations -$45,839.696 1 1 sell

Transaction Clusters

PeriodFilingsInsidersNet ValueSeniority
2025-06-18 – 2025-06-18 3 3 -$296,501.254 3 C-suite
2026-03-10 – 2026-03-10 3 3 +$452,076.35

Significant Filings

DateInsiderTitleNet ValuePrice After
2026-03-10 Tripeny R Tony +$99,940 Transaction at $76.00, now +39.7%
2026-03-10 Ladiwala Shiraz Shabanali +$252,805 Transaction at $72.23, now +47.0%
2026-03-10 Capone Mark Christopher +$99,331.35 Transaction at $76.35, now +39.1%
2025-06-18 Owens Gary M President and CEO -$188,311.802 Transaction at $97.12, now +9.3%
2025-06-18 Sakys John CFO -$62,349.756 Transaction at $97.12, now +9.3%
2025-06-18 Archbold Brian David SVP Operations -$45,839.696 Transaction at $97.12, now +9.3%

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