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Agilent Technologies, Inc. (A) is a leading company in laboratory instrumentation, software, services and consumables, serving the life-sciences, diagnostics and applied chemical markets. The company has evolved into a specialist in analytical and testing solutions for research, biotech, environmental, food-safety and clinical laboratories. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the company has a market cap of $41.6 billion. The company is set to release its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings soon.
Ahead of the event, analysts expect Agilent Technologies to report a profit of $1.59 per share on a diluted basis, up 8.9% from $1.46 per share in the year-ago quarter. The company has consistently surpassed Wall Street’s EPS estimates in all of its last four quarterly reports.