How is Charles River Laboratories (CRL) doing?
Charles River Laboratories is a company in the medical, diagnostics & research industry, based in Wilmington, MA, worth $14.5B. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.
Updated Oct 9, 2026
Middling
Charles River Laboratories shares are up 74% over the past year, 50 points ahead of the S&P 500. Its type is Faith Trade. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 95th percentile on market beat, the 78th on staying power and the 22nd on business growth. It appears on 10 of our dashboards, including 3rd on “Whose cash flow backs up their earnings?”.
Compare with IQV · MEDP · TMO · DHR · AVTR · RVTY
Financials, earnings and news on Stox ›The past year
Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.
What kind of stock is it?
Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.
Faith Trade
Beating the market steadily with buyers in control, though its business growth trails most. The price is ahead of the numbers.
Faith Trade since Apr; Bottom Fished before that.
Also Faith Trade (62 in all): IQV · RVTY · ACHC · MRK · PFE · MRNA
How is it doing against its group?
Its group is Health care, 86 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Tools, biotech and large-cap pharma — defensive growth.
Charles River Laboratories is +74% over the past year, against +20% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 6th of 86 in Health care.
How much does it move?
Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.
About usual Charles River Laboratories typically moves 3.9% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings more than 75% of large US stocks.
CRL on our dashboards
Every question where Charles River Laboratories appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with CRL highlighted. Select a column to sort.
| Question | Reading | Place | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Which stocks are setting new highs? Market health | 94Top | 13 of 31 | 1Y +74% · 3M +31% · Days at a high 1 |
| How much do stocks move on earnings? Earnings | 89Big mover | 45 of 60 | Reports 2026-11-04 · Typical move 9.1% · Largest 22% |
| Who beats estimates every quarter? Earnings | 8812 in a row | 59 of 60 | Run 12 · EPS beats 12 of 12 · Sales beats 12 of 12 |
| Is the market rewarding earnings beats? Earnings | –Beat | 41 of 60 | Surprise +10% · Move vs S&P +13.8% · Reported 2026-08-05 |
| Which stocks keep winning? Leading stocks | 9733 of 52 wks | 15 of 60 | vs S&P, 1Y +58 pts · Rank steadiness 78 · P3 score 55 |
| Who is beating its rivals? Leading stocks | 92Ahead | 39 of 60 | 3M +23 pts · 1Y +58 pts · Rivals IQV, MEDP, TMO, DHR |
| Whose profit margins are widening? Business quality | 93Widening | 30 of 60 | Change, 1Y +9.3 pts · Operating margin 12% · Gross margin 32% |
| Whose cash flow backs up their earnings? Business quality | 99Backed | 3 of 60 | 3 years 300% · Free cash flow $370.6M |
| What are insiders buying? Who’s buying and selling | 52Selling | 30 of 60 | Sold $303K · Who Cevp, Disc & Safety Assessment |
| Where is trading volume surging? Who’s buying and selling | 96Heavy | 20 of 60 | vs normal 1.6x · Traded a day $383.6M · 5D +4.0% |
Go deeper on Stox
CRL’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.
How to read this page
How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.
Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.
Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.
Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.
Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.
For financial statements, earnings and news, see CRL’s full profile on Stox.
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