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Mesa Laboratories, Inc. (MLAB)

Technology | Scientific & Technical Instruments | Lakewood, United States | NasdaqGS
129.09 USD +0.44 (0.342%) ⇧ (Aug. 28, 2026, 4 p.m. EDT)
After hours: 126.67 -2.42 (-2.420%) ⇩ (Aug. 28, 2026, 7:40 p.m. EDT)

Short-term:★★⯪☆☆Long-term:★☆☆☆☆Dividends:★★☆☆☆
Hot Take | Aug. 22, 2026, 5:12 a.m. EDT

The immediate outlook is neutral due to a lack of clear directional momentum, though the stock recently rallied from the $100 level to trade near $125. However, the long-term investment case is severely compromised by a four-year streak of annual declines, with the most recent year seeing a catastrophic -43.4% drop. This multi-year structural deterioration suggests the market has permanently reassessed the business quality, rendering the current price a reflection of deep distress rather than a margin of safety. While the forward P/E appears attractive at 12x, this is likely a 'value trap' pricing in the continued decline rather than anticipating a turnaround, especially given the massive gap between trailing and forward earnings estimates. The dividend, while stable at $0.64 annually, offers a meager 0.54% yield that fails to compensate for the significant capital loss risk inherent in holding a stock that has lost nearly 30% of its value over the last nine years.

Model Selection — Backtest MAE (log-scale, lower is better)
ModelMAE
AutoARIMA ✓0.068648
MSTL0.077003
AutoETS0.086706
AutoTheta0.093019

Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: AutoARIMA

Forecast Reliability
Score 33%
H-stat 9.08
Ljung-Box p 0.000
Jarque-Bera p 0.032
Excess Kurtosis -0.21
Attribute Value
Sector Technology
Ex Dividend Date 2026-08-30
Last Dividend Date 2026-05-28
Debt to Equity Ratio 85.479
Revenue per Share 44.898
Market Cap 722,370,688
Trailing P/E 151.87
Forward P/E 12.57
Beta 0.93
Profit Margins 1.92%
Website https://www.mesalabs.com

Dividend Data

Yield Summary
Last Yield 1yr Yield 3yr Avg 5yr Avg
0.16% 0.76% 0.63% 0.51%
Dividend History
Date Dividend Yield %
2026-05-29 0.16 0.156832
2026-02-27 0.16 0.165683
2025-11-28 0.16 0.199501
2025-08-29 0.16 0.236162
2025-05-30 0.16 0.159014
2025-02-28 0.16 0.114794
2024-11-29 0.16 0.136589
2024-08-30 0.16 0.119680
2024-05-31 0.16 0.167189
2024-02-28 0.16 0.149254
2023-11-29 0.16 0.182108
2023-08-30 0.16 0.113459
2023-05-30 0.16 0.120428
2023-02-27 0.16 0.090682
2022-11-29 0.16 0.096970
2022-08-30 0.16 0.092187
2022-05-27 0.16 0.073668
2022-02-25 0.16 0.062259
2021-11-29 0.16 0.051068
2021-08-30 0.16 0.059365
2021-05-27 0.16 0.065094
2021-02-25 0.16 0.057969
2020-11-27 0.16 0.058262
2020-08-28 0.16 0.065309
2020-05-28 0.16 0.061676
2020-02-27 0.16 0.064775
2019-11-27 0.16 0.068027
2019-08-29 0.16 0.073086
2019-05-30 0.16 0.064000
2019-02-27 0.16 0.068702
2018-11-29 0.16 0.072379
2018-08-30 0.16 0.079483
2018-05-30 0.16 0.100000
2018-02-27 0.16 0.118475
2017-11-29 0.16 0.118694
2017-08-29 0.16 0.119850
2017-05-26 0.16 0.105339
2017-02-24 0.16 0.126532
2016-11-28 0.16 0.124031
2016-08-29 0.16 0.144928
2016-05-26 0.16 0.158432
2016-02-25 0.16 0.178075
2015-11-25 0.16 0.147601
2015-08-27 0.16 0.142934
2015-05-27 0.16 0.179937
2015-02-25 0.16 0.212766
2014-11-25 0.16 0.220325
2014-08-27 0.15 0.210379
2014-05-28 0.15 0.188632
2014-02-26 0.15 0.171389
2013-11-26 0.15 0.190500
2013-08-28 0.14 0.214691
2013-05-22 0.14 0.269438
2013-02-25 0.14 0.265403
2012-11-28 0.14 0.288066
2012-08-27 0.13 0.277185
2012-05-25 0.13 0.271342
2012-02-23 0.13 0.252771
2011-11-23 0.13 0.318471
2011-08-24 0.12 0.357462
2011-05-26 0.12 0.388224
2011-02-23 0.12 0.418848
2010-11-24 0.12 0.455408
2010-08-27 0.11 0.511628
2010-05-26 0.11 0.467091
2010-02-24 0.11 0.425039
2009-11-25 0.11 0.448980
2009-08-26 0.10 0.438212
2009-05-29 0.10 0.500000
2009-02-25 0.10 0.568828
2008-11-24 0.10 0.603865
2008-08-26 0.10 0.481928
2008-05-22 0.10 0.481696
2008-02-21 0.10 0.410004
2007-11-21 0.10 0.406339
2007-08-21 0.08 0.402010
2007-05-17 0.08 0.425985
2007-02-27 0.08 0.400000
2006-11-29 0.18 0.923077
2006-08-30 0.07 0.424242
2006-05-30 0.07 0.466667
2006-02-27 0.07 0.466667
2005-11-29 0.32 2.012579
2005-08-30 0.06 0.500000
2005-05-27 0.06 0.474684
2005-02-25 0.06 0.483481
2004-11-29 0.26 2.227935
2004-08-30 0.05 0.468165
2004-05-27 0.05 0.511771
2004-02-26 0.05 0.556174
2003-11-26 0.20 2.197802
Additional Data
dividendRate 0.64
dividendYield 0.5
exDividendDate 2026-08-31
trailingAnnualDividendRate 0.64
trailingAnnualDividendYield 0.0049747378
lastDividendValue 0.16
lastDividendDate 2026-05-29
dividendDate 2026-09-15

Info Dump

Attribute Value
52 Week Change 1.003582
Address1 12,100 West Sixth Avenue
All Time High 333.42
All Time Low 0.25
Ask 164.19
Ask Size 2
Audit Risk 8
Average Analyst Rating 2.3 - Buy
Average Daily Volume10 Day 163,700
Average Daily Volume3 Month 195,217
Average Volume 195,217
Average Volume10Days 163,700
Beta 0.93
Bid 91.78
Bid Size 2
Board Risk 4
Book Value 33.71
City Lakewood
Compensation As Of Epoch Date 1,798,675,200
Compensation Risk 2
Country United States
Crypto Tradeable 0
Currency USD
Current Price 129.09
Current Ratio 1.794
Custom Price Alert Confidence HIGH
Date Short Interest 1,786,665,600
Day High 129.66
Day Low 126.79
Debt To Equity 85.479
Display Name Mesa Laboratories
Dividend Date 1,789,430,400
Dividend Rate 0.64
Dividend Yield 0.5
Earnings Call Timestamp End 1,786,393,800
Earnings Call Timestamp Start 1,786,393,800
Earnings Growth -0.424
Earnings Quarterly Growth -0.403
Earnings Timestamp 1,786,392,000
Earnings Timestamp End 1,793,908,800
Earnings Timestamp Start 1,793,908,800
Ebitda 45,437,000
Ebitda Margins 0.18195
Enterprise To Ebitda 18.74
Enterprise To Revenue 3.41
Enterprise Value 851,484,736
Eps Current Year 9.95
Eps Forward 10.27
Eps Trailing Twelve Months 0.85
Esg Populated 0
Ex Dividend Date 1,788,134,400
Exchange NMS
Exchange Data Delayed By 0
Exchange Timezone Name America/New_York
Exchange Timezone Short Name EDT
Fifty Day Average 103.5402
Fifty Day Average Change 25.549797
Fifty Day Average Change Percent 0.2467621
Fifty Two Week Change Percent 100.3582
Fifty Two Week High 129.66
Fifty Two Week High Change -0.5700073
Fifty Two Week High Change Percent -0.0043961694
Fifty Two Week Low 58.83
Fifty Two Week Low Change 70.259995
Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent 1.1942885
Fifty Two Week Range 58.83 - 129.66
Financial Currency USD
First Trade Date Milliseconds 446,913,000,000
Five Year Avg Dividend Yield 0.51
Float Shares 4,945,461
Forward Eps 10.27
Forward P E 12.569619
Free Cashflow 53,380,124
Full Exchange Name NasdaqGS
Full Time Employees 717
Fullday Change 0.440002
Fullday Change Percent 0.342015
Fullday Price 126.67
Gmt Off Set Milliseconds -14,400,000
Governance Epoch Date 1,785,542,400
Gross Margins 0.64208
Gross Profits 160,343,008
Has Pre Post Market Data 1
Held Percent Insiders 0.056199998
Held Percent Institutions 0.96128
Implied Shares Outstanding 5,595,869
Industry Scientific & Technical Instruments
Industry Disp Scientific & Technical Instruments
Industry Key scientific-technical-instruments
Ir Website http://www.mesalabs.com/corporate/investor.html
Is Earnings Date Estimate 0
Language en-US
Last Dividend Date 1,780,012,800
Last Dividend Value 0.16
Last Fiscal Year End 1,774,915,200
Long Business Summary 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, and healthcare industries. This segment also provides sterility assurance testing and laboratory services to the dental and pharmaceutical industries. The Biopharmaceutical Development segment develops, manufactures, sells, and services automated systems for protein analysis (immunoassays) and peptide synthesis solutions. Its Clinical Genomics segment offers MassARRAY, a genetic analysis tool system, and related consumables, including chips, panels, and chemical reagent solutions used by clinical labs to analyze DNA samples for hereditary disease screenings, pharmacogenetics, oncology related applications, and toxicology research. The Biopharmaceutical Development segment provides automated systems, such as Gyrolab xPand and Gyrolab xPlore hardware and software, Gyrolab Bioaffy consumable microfluidic disks, Gyrolab kits and Rexxip buffers for protein analysis; and PurePep Symphony and Chorus instruments for peptide synthesis. Its Calibration Solutions segment offers quality control products to measure and calibrate critical parameters in applications, such as renal care, gas flow, environmental and process monitoring, and torque testing in pharmaceutical, laboratory, medical device, manufacturing, industrial, and environmental applications. This segment's products include continuous monitoring systems, data loggers, and torque testing systems under the DialyGuard, DryCal, DataTrace, and ViewPoint brands. Mesa Laboratories, Inc. was incorporated in 1982 and is headquartered in Lakewood, Colorado.
Long Name Mesa Laboratories, Inc.
Market us_market
Market Cap 722,370,688
Market State CLOSED
Max Age 86,400
Message Board Id finmb_287550
Most Recent Quarter 1,782,777,600
Net Income To Common 4,800,000
Next Fiscal Year End 1,806,451,200
Non Diluted Market Cap 721,867,101
Number Of Analyst Opinions 2
Open 127.81
Operating Cashflow 55,674,000
Operating Margins 0.11691
Overall Risk 3
Payout Ratio 0.7529
Phone 303 987 8000
Post Market Change -2.4199982
Post Market Change Percent -1.8746598
Post Market Price 126.67
Post Market Time 1,787,960,445
Previous Close 128.65
Price Eps Current Year 12.973869
Price Hint 2
Price To Book 3.8294275
Price To Sales Trailing12 Months 2.8926647
Profit Margins 0.01922
Quick Ratio 1.163
Quote Source Name Nasdaq Real Time Price
Quote Type EQUITY
Recommendation Key buy
Recommendation Mean 2.33333
Region US
Regular Market Change 0.440002
Regular Market Change Percent 0.342015
Regular Market Day High 129.66
Regular Market Day Low 126.79
Regular Market Day Range 126.79 - 129.66
Regular Market Open 127.81
Regular Market Previous Close 128.65
Regular Market Price 129.09
Regular Market Time 1,787,947,201
Regular Market Volume 153,074
Return On Assets 0.03286
Return On Equity 0.02657
Revenue Growth 0.01
Revenue Per Share 44.898
Sand P52 Week Change 0.20504117
Sector Technology
Sector Disp Technology
Sector Key technology
Share Holder Rights Risk 3
Shares Outstanding 5,595,869
Shares Percent Shares Out 0.060399998
Shares Short 337,738
Shares Short Previous Month Date 1,784,073,600
Shares Short Prior Month 274,176
Short Name Mesa Laboratories, Inc.
Short Percent Of Float 0.0874
Short Ratio 2.2
Source Interval 15
State CO
Symbol MLAB
Target High Price 125.0
Target Low Price 110.0
Target Mean Price 117.5
Target Median Price 117.5
Total Cash 32,237,000
Total Cash Per Share 5.761
Total Debt 161,351,008
Total Revenue 249,724,992
Tradeable 0
Trailing Annual Dividend Rate 0.64
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield 0.0049747378
Trailing Eps 0.85
Trailing P E 151.87057
Trailing Peg Ratio None
Triggerable 1
Two Hundred Day Average 93.03075
Two Hundred Day Average Change 36.05925
Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent 0.38760573
Type Disp Equity
Volume 153,074
Website https://www.mesalabs.com
Zip 80,228