STERIS plc

STE stock score: 59/100

$225.18 · +1.45% · Scored Oct 20, 2026

Technical
57
Fundamental
61
News
52

The reading

STERIS (STE) scores 59 out of 100, which reads neutral, higher than 84% of Healthcare stocks and 72% of the 4,166 US stocks we score.

The composite is technicals and fundamentals weighted equally: technicals read 57, fundamentals 61.

Among the fundamentals, Price Target at 100 and Fund Ownership at 86 score highest, while Gross Margins at 4 weighs the most against it.

On the daily chart, trend-following indicators average 62 and contrarian oscillators 31 — a split worth reading before trusting the technical total.

News sentiment is neutral at 52; it is shown, not counted in the composite.

Since Jul 23, 2026 the composite has ranged from 48 to 69, and it is up 11 points over the period.

What’s driving the score

The strongest and weakest of the scorers that count toward STE’s composite. Each returns 0–100, higher is more bullish — including metrics where low is good, like P/E.

Fundamental

61

Pulling it up

  • Price Target100

    Price target score compares the current stock price to analyst consensus targets.

  • Fund Ownership86

    Fund ownership tracks institutional investor holdings and changes.

  • Debt to Equity86

    Debt-to-Equity ratio measures financial leverage by comparing total debt to shareholder equity.

Holding it back

  • Gross Margins4

    Gross margins show profitability after cost of goods sold.

  • Fair Value29

    Fair value score synthesizes multiple valuation methods (DCF, P/E, P/B, P/S) to estimate intrinsic worth.

  • Earnings Estimates35

    Earnings estimates score evaluates analyst projections for future profitability.

41 weighted scorers.

Technical · daily

57

Pulling it up

  • Parabolic SAR (PSAR)100

    Parabolic SAR (Stop and Reverse) provides trailing stop levels that follow price trends.

  • VWAP100

    Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) shows the average price weighted by volume.

  • Stochastic (14)100

    Stochastic Oscillator (14-period) compares the current price to its range over 14 periods.

Holding it back

  • Bollinger Bands (20)1

    Bollinger Bands (20-period) plot standard deviations above and below a moving average.

  • Williams %R (28)9

    Williams %R (28-period) places the close within the last 28 periods' high-low range.

  • Williams %R (14)12

    Williams %R (14-period) measures where the current price sits within the recent high-low range.

61 weighted scorers; 4 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

News · shown, not counted

Global News
52

Technical score by timeframe

ChartScoreWeight
Hourly571
Daily573
Weekly532
Monthly602
Quarterly592

Composite score, last 90 days

05010059Jul 23, 2026Oct 20, 2026Jul 23, 2026: 48Jul 24, 2026: 50Jul 25, 2026: 50Jul 26, 2026: 50Jul 27, 2026: 51Jul 28, 2026: 54Jul 29, 2026: 54Jul 30, 2026: 54Jul 31, 2026: 69Aug 2, 2026: 56Aug 3, 2026: 56Aug 5, 2026: 57Aug 6, 2026: 56Aug 7, 2026: 63Aug 8, 2026: 63Aug 9, 2026: 63Aug 10, 2026: 64Aug 11, 2026: 64Aug 12, 2026: 58Aug 13, 2026: 63Aug 14, 2026: 62Aug 15, 2026: 63Aug 16, 2026: 62Aug 17, 2026: 60Aug 18, 2026: 61Aug 19, 2026: 64Aug 20, 2026: 63Aug 22, 2026: 63Aug 23, 2026: 63Aug 24, 2026: 63Aug 25, 2026: 62Aug 26, 2026: 62Aug 27, 2026: 60Aug 28, 2026: 60Aug 29, 2026: 61Aug 30, 2026: 61Aug 31, 2026: 60Sep 1, 2026: 60Sep 2, 2026: 60Sep 3, 2026: 57Sep 4, 2026: 55Sep 5, 2026: 55Sep 6, 2026: 55Sep 7, 2026: 56Sep 8, 2026: 54Sep 9, 2026: 51Sep 10, 2026: 51Sep 11, 2026: 51Sep 12, 2026: 52Sep 13, 2026: 51Sep 14, 2026: 52Sep 15, 2026: 51Sep 16, 2026: 52Sep 17, 2026: 51Sep 18, 2026: 50Sep 19, 2026: 51Sep 20, 2026: 50Sep 21, 2026: 51Sep 22, 2026: 52Sep 23, 2026: 54Sep 24, 2026: 53Sep 25, 2026: 52Sep 26, 2026: 52Sep 27, 2026: 52Sep 28, 2026: 53Sep 29, 2026: 53Sep 30, 2026: 52Oct 1, 2026: 52Oct 2, 2026: 52Oct 3, 2026: 52Oct 4, 2026: 52Oct 5, 2026: 54Oct 6, 2026: 53Oct 7, 2026: 53Oct 8, 2026: 54Oct 9, 2026: 54Oct 10, 2026: 55Oct 11, 2026: 54Oct 12, 2026: 57Oct 13, 2026: 56Oct 14, 2026: 56Oct 15, 2026: 59Oct 16, 2026: 59Oct 17, 2026: 58Oct 18, 2026: 59Oct 19, 2026: 57Oct 20, 2026: 59
Show the daily numbers
DateComposite
Oct 20, 202659
Oct 19, 202657
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Oct 14, 202656
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Aug 19, 202664
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Aug 12, 202658
Aug 11, 202664
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Jul 31, 202669
Jul 30, 202654
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Jul 23, 202648

Key facts

Market cap
$22.0B
Sector
Healthcare
Industry
Medical Devices
Beta
0.93
Risk grade (1–10)
8
Next earnings
Nov 4, 2026

Medical Devices peers

CompanyMarket capScore
DXCM DexCom$32.4B64
GEHC GE HealthCare Technologies$31.7B55
PHG Koninklijke Philips$25.4B51
ZBH Zimmer Biomet$18.3B53
PEN Penumbra$12.8B60
SNN Smith & Nephew$12.3B55

Questions

What is STE's stock score today?

STE scores 59/100 (Neutral) as of Oct 20, 2026: technical 57, fundamental 61, and news sentiment 52, which is shown but not counted. Scores are recomputed every night.

Is STE a buy?

The score is not a buy or sell recommendation. A 59 says the technical and fundamental signals we measure lean neutral today, relative to every other stock scored the same way. Use the breakdown above to see why, and treat it as a starting point for your own research.

How is the STE score calculated?

102 weighted scorers feed it today: 41 fundamental, scored against Healthcare ranges, and 61 technical on the daily chart, with 5 timeframes blended into the technical total. Every scorer returns 0–100; missing data is left out, never counted as zero.

Scores are information, not investment advice. Computed from Yahoo Finance, Finnhub and Alpha Vantage data; technical indicators via TA-Lib. Past scores do not predict future returns.