MLAB

Mesa Laboratories, Inc.

Healthcare · $743M market cap

Verdict

Share price

$132.55

close of Oct 3, 2026

Fair value

$137.16

Sticker Price

Payback Price

$54.86

buy price

Fairly Valued

MLAB is Fairly Valued: at $132.55 it's within 3% of its fair value of $137.16. Its buy price (Payback Price) is $54.86, 59% below today's price. Business quality is solid: 3 of 5 key numbers clear the 10% bar.

How we valued it

Free Cash Flow Growth. Free cash flow is growing faster than reported earnings, so we project free cash flow 10 years ahead instead.

Business quality

3 of 5 clear the 10% bar. What are the Big Five?

Earnings per share growth1.3% a year✗
Equity per share growth14.7% a year✓
Sales growth15.4% a year✓
Free cash flow growth13.8% a year✓
Return on invested capital-20.2%✗

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Insider activity

Since Sep 9, 2009: 2 open-market purchases worth $902K, 7 sales worth $1.6M and 37 other filings (stock awards, tax withholding and similar). Why purchases matter

Purchases

Sales

Other filings

Tripeny R Tony

director · 2026-09-09

Award

1,774 shares

Sullivan John James

director · 2026-09-09

Award

1,774 shares

Hall Shannon

director · 2026-09-09

Award

1,774 shares

Ladiwala Shiraz Shabanali

director · 2026-09-09

Award

2,510 shares

Capone Mark Christopher

director · 2026-09-09

Award

2,423 shares

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Sullivan John James

director · 2026-08-15

Option exercise

2,784 shares

Tripeny R Tony

director · 2026-08-15

Option exercise

2,784 shares

Hall Shannon

director · 2026-08-15

Option exercise

2,784 shares

Ladiwala Shiraz Shabanali

director · 2026-08-15

Option exercise

3,810 shares

Alltoft Jennifer Sadie

director · 2026-08-15

Option exercise

2,784 shares

Capone Mark Christopher

director · 2026-08-15

Option exercise

2,784 shares

Sakys John

CFO · 2026-06-18

Option exercise

1,036 shares

Sakys John

CFO · 2026-06-18

Option exercise

2,756 shares

Sakys John

CFO · 2026-06-18

Option exercise

$99K

Sakys John

CFO · 2026-06-18

Option exercise

$262K

Sakys John

CFO · 2026-06-18

Award

$217K

Archbold Brian David

SVP Operations · 2026-06-18

Option exercise

844 shares

Archbold Brian David

SVP Operations · 2026-06-18

Option exercise

2,480 shares

Archbold Brian David

SVP Operations · 2026-06-18

Option exercise

$80K

Archbold Brian David

SVP Operations · 2026-06-18

Option exercise

$236K

Archbold Brian David

SVP Operations · 2026-06-18

Award

$177K

Crennen Lyndsey Elizabeth

CAO · 2026-06-18

Option exercise

125 shares

Crennen Lyndsey Elizabeth

CAO · 2026-06-18

Option exercise

233 shares

Crennen Lyndsey Elizabeth

CAO · 2026-06-18

Option exercise

368 shares

Crennen Lyndsey Elizabeth

CAO · 2026-06-18

Option exercise

$12K

Crennen Lyndsey Elizabeth

CAO · 2026-06-18

Option exercise

$22K

Crennen Lyndsey Elizabeth

CAO · 2026-06-18

Option exercise

$35K

Crennen Lyndsey Elizabeth

CAO · 2026-06-18

Award

$25K

Sakys John

CFO · 2026-06-15

Option exercise

2,717 shares

Sakys John

CFO · 2026-06-15

Award

8,416 shares

Sakys John

CFO · 2026-06-15

E-ExpireShort

$896K

Sakys John

CFO · 2026-06-15

Option exercise

$283K

Archbold Brian David

SVP Operations · 2026-06-15

Award

4,328 shares

Archbold Brian David

SVP Operations · 2026-06-15

Option exercise

$255K

Archbold Brian David

SVP Operations · 2026-06-15

Option exercise

2,454 shares

Archbold Brian David

SVP Operations · 2026-06-15

E-ExpireShort

$404K

Alltoft Jennifer Sadie

director · 2009-09-09

Award

1,774 shares

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…

Medical - Specialties

Fair value and Payback Price are estimates from the company's reported financials, not investment advice. Prices as of the close of Oct 3, 2026. How the Payback Price works