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HARVARD BIOSCIENCE INC

HealthcareMedical Instruments
Ticker HBIOHOLLISTON, MAFiscal year ends DecemberBook value per share $0.18Diluted shares 40.3M

Harvard Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ: HBIO) is a leading developer, manufacturer, and seller of technologies, products, and services that enable fundamental advances in life science applications. The company's website is www.harvardbioscience.com. From the company’s description.

Fiscal year 2025 · ends 12-31Changes are against fiscal 2024The amber dot is the latest twelve months, to 2026-06-30
Sales & profitability
$86.55M
−8.1% year over year
Last 12 mo $87.81M
-56.13%
−49.5 percentage points
Last 12 mo -0.28%
$-56.70M
−357.1% year over year
Last 12 mo $-10.41M
-63.11%
−43.5 percentage points
Last 12 mo -140.36%
Cash & financing
$6.73M
+367.3% year over year
Last 12 mo $0.65M
$4.87M
+366.9% year over year
Last 12 mo $-1.83M
2.61
Was 0.58× a year earlier
Last 12 mo 4.94
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Margins and return on equity change in ; everything else in percent. Fewer shares and less debt are shown plainly, not as bad news — it depends what you make of buybacks. Dotted labels explain each measure. is shown separately from the annual figures.

What HARVARD BIOSCIENCE INC does

In the company’s own words

Harvard Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ: HBIO) is a leading developer, manufacturer, and seller of technologies, products, and services that enable fundamental advances in life science applications. The company's website is www.harvardbioscience.com.

Founded in 1901 by Dr. William T. Porter, a Professor of Physiology at Harvard Medical School, Harvard Bioscience has evolved from its origins in physiology education to become a comprehensive provider of research and drug discovery tools. The company traces its modern corporate structure to 1996 when investors acquired the predecessor business, with Harvard Bioscience, Inc. incorporated in Delaware in 2000. A significant milestone occurred in 2018 with the acquisition of Data Sciences International, Inc., which expanded the company's portfolio to address the continuum from research and discovery through preclinical testing.

The company operates through two primary product families. The Cellular and Molecular Technology (CMT) product family, representing approximately 46 percent of revenues, includes electroporation instruments, amino acid analyzers, spectrophotometers, precision pumps, and micro-electrode array solutions supporting academic research and drug discovery. The Preclinical product family, comprising approximately 54 percent of revenues, provides telemetry systems, behavioral products, respiratory systems, and data acquisition platforms for drug development and safety testing. The company also distributes complementary third-party products, accounting for approximately 13 percent of revenues.

Harvard Bioscience serves a diverse customer base including pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, universities, government laboratories, hospitals, and contract research organizations. Major customers include Abbott, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Pfizer, and Regeneron, alongside academic institutions such as Harvard University, Stanford, and Johns Hopkins University.

As of December 31, 2025, the company employed 339 people across manufacturing facilities in the United States, Germany, and Spain, with additional operations in the United Kingdom, China, and other locations. The company conducts direct sales and distribution through partners globally, with approximately 61 percent of revenues from direct sales and 39 percent through distributors. The company maintains a portfolio of 11 issued patents and 5 pending patent applications covering its proprietary technologies.

Company details
Sector
Healthcare
Industry
Medical Instruments
Headquarters
HOLLISTON, MA
Fiscal year end
December
CIK
1123494
SIC
3826

Financial performance, year by year

Fiscal 2013–2025 · USD
$-74.45M$-21.21M$32.04M$85.28M$138.52M2013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025Last 12 moLast 12 monthsLast 12 months

The full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.

Ownership

Who owns HARVARD BIOSCIENCE INC — and what changed

Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30

15
funds hold it
0 of 35
superinvestors hold it
$1.43M
held by funds, at market
5.2%
of shares held by funds

Largest fund holders · HARVARD BIOSCIENCE INC’s weight in each

VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET INDEX FUND
VTI · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.00%of fund net assets
VANGUARD EXTENDED MARKET INDEX FUND
VXF · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.00%of fund net assets
Fidelity Extended Market Index Fund
FSMAX · Fidelity Concord Street Trust
0.00%of fund net assets
ACUITAS US MICROCAP FUND
AFMCX · FORUM FUNDS II
0.07%of fund net assets
Fidelity Total Market Index Fund
FSKAX · Fidelity Concord Street Trust
0.00%of fund net assets

Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.

Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.

Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.

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