Analyst Note
| Aaron Degagne |While Bio-Rad’s second-quarter sales decline may seem disappointing, the story of the quarter was like the first quarter in that growth declines were not as bad as feared, and the company maintained margins in the face of inflation headwinds. Our $524 fair value estimate and narrow-moat ratings are unchanged, although we have slightly reduced our top-line forecasts for the year to account for foreign-exchange effects.