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On October 10, 2025, wealth management company Douglas Lane & Associates disclosed a purchase of Thermo Fisher Scientific valued at approximately $7.79 million, based on the average price for Q3 2025.

What happened

According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) dated October 10, 2025, Douglas Lane & Associates increased its position in Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO -1.85%) by 16,745 shares during the quarter. The estimated transaction value was $7.79 million, based on the average closing price for the quarter. The fund now holds 216,276 shares after the trade.

What else to know

Following the purchase, Thermo Fisher Scientific represented 1.5% of the fund’s reportable assets under management as of September 30, 2025.

Top holdings after the filing are as follows:

• NASDAQ:NVDA: $312.46 million (4.4% of AUM) as of September 30, 2025
• NASDAQ:GOOG: $212.16 million (3.0% of AUM) as of September 30, 2025
• NYSE:JPM: $203.56 million (2.8% of AUM) as of September 30, 2025
• NASDAQ:MSFT: $184.79 million (2.6% of AUM) as of September 30, 2025
• NASDAQ:QCOM: $167.31 million (2.3% of AUM) as of September 30, 2025

As of October 9, 2025, Thermo Fisher shares were priced at $534.68, and were down about 12% over the trailing 12 months.

Company Overview

Company Snapshot

Thermo Fisher Scientific offers life sciences solutions, analytical instruments, specialty diagnostics, laboratory products, and biopharma services with revenue streams diversified across research, diagnostics, and pharmaceutical sectors.

The company operates a multi-segment business model, generating revenue through direct sales, e-commerce, and third-party distribution of proprietary products, consumables, and services. It serves pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, clinical and research laboratories, academic institutions, government agencies, and industrial customers globally.

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Thermo Fisher Scientific is a global leader in scientific instrumentation, diagnostics, and laboratory services, with a broad portfolio that supports research, healthcare, and biopharmaceutical production. The company leverages scale and a diverse product offering to drive consistent revenue growth, and serve a wide range of end markets.

Foolish take

Douglas Lane upping its Thermo Fisher Scientific holdings is noteworthy in that the wealth management company already had a substantial stake. This move suggests Douglas Lane believes Thermo Fisher stock remains attractively valued, especially after its decline over the last 12 months.

Indeed, looking at Thermo Fisher stock’s price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio shows it’s lower than it was a year ago. This indicates shares are a better value now, although the earnings multiple is not as low as it was after President Trump’s new tariff policies caused the entire stock market to fall last April.

As far as its business performance, Thermo Fisher is doing well. It achieved 3% revenue growth to $10.9 billion in its fiscal second quarter, ended June 28. The company did an outstanding job managing its expenses, and combined with its sales growth, allowed Thermo Fisher to deliver a 6% year-over-year increase in fiscal Q2 diluted earnings per share (EPS) to $4.28. This continues the trend of rising EPS exhibited over the last couple of years.

On top of that, Thermo Fisher raised its 2025 fiscal guidance to sales of about $44 billion. This would be a jump up from the prior year’s $42.9 billion. With rising revenue and EPS combined with a reasonable P/E ratio, Thermo Fisher stock looks like a compelling buy.

Glossary

Assets Under Management (AUM): The total market value of investments managed by a fund or investment firm.
13F Reportable Assets: Securities that institutional investment managers must disclose in quarterly SEC filings if they exceed $100 million in assets.
Alpha: A measure of an investment’s performance relative to a benchmark index, often indicating excess return.
Quarter: A three-month period used by companies for financial reporting and performance measurement.
Proprietary Products: Goods or services owned and produced exclusively by a company, often protected by patents or trademarks.
Consumables: Products intended for single or limited use, requiring regular replacement in laboratory or industrial settings.
Direct Sales: Selling products or services directly to customers without intermediaries or third-party distributors.
Third-Party Distribution: The sale of products through external companies or intermediaries rather than directly from the manufacturer.
Dividend Yield: The annual dividend payment expressed as a percentage of the stock’s current price.
Biopharma Services: Specialized services supporting the development and manufacturing of biopharmaceutical drugs.
End Markets: The final industries or customer segments that purchase and use a company’s products or services.
TTM: The 12-month period ending with the most recent quarterly report.

The cost to experience the Happiest Place on Earth continues to rise as the Disneyland Resort unveiled its annual price increases for the upcoming year.

The Disneyland Resort on Wednesday morning increased prices on most tickets for guests 10 and older, with the price to visit a single park on its most in-demand days now $224 per person, up from $206. The price of its lowest-tier offering — a one-day, one-park ticket for often a less crowded weekday — will remain the same at $104. (Disneyland Resort ticket prices vary depending on the day and consumer demand.)

Pricing for all other one-day, one-park tickets on more popular days will increase between 1.5% and 4.8% — Disneyland has six tiers of pricing based on crowd levels — and most increased moderately between $3 and $7, a lower jump than in years past. Park hopper add-ons, which allow a guest to visit both Disneyland Park and Disney California Adventure on the same day, are now between $70 and $90 per day, up from $65 to $75 per day, depending on the crowd calendar.

Parking at the resort has also increased, up $5 to $40 per day for a standard vehicle.

Once in the park, those who opt for the line-skipping Lightning Lane Multi Pass will find that service starts at $34 per day, up from $32, but the program is also subject to variable pricing. For instance, today a Lightning Lane Multi Pass is $40 per guest.

Its Magic Key annual pass has also experienced an increase for its top two tiers, the so-called Inspire and Believe passes. The Inspire pass, which offers the most year-round access and highest merchandise and dining discounts, including the cost of parking, is up $150 to $1,899. The Believe key is up $100 to $1,474. Prices for its two lowest tier Magic Keys — the Enchant and Imagine — did not change.

Currently, only the Enchant and Imagine keys, the latter for Southern California residents, are available for sale. All are available for renew, as Disney makes Magic Key passes for sale available at various times throughout the year.

Disneyland has maintained its lowest $104 ticket for seven years now. This year, for instance, one can visit the park in early November at that rate in the days between the resort’s Halloween and holidays celebrations. From Oct. 7 through April 4, 2026, Disneyland has also increased its number of $104 days, up from 20 to 32 for the upcoming months.

“Disney Parks offer a full day of experiences each day, with ticket, hotel, and dining options designed to suit a wide range of needs and budgets for all who visit,” read a statement from the company. “Our commitment to creating magical experiences for everyone remains at the heart of what we do — and that will never change.”

The resort has also unveiled a new California ticket offer, which is set to go on sale Dec. 3. The deal is for a 3-day park-hopper ticket, which can be used on non-consecutive visits, and starts at $249 per person, which amounts to $83 per day. A Lightning Lane Multi Pass add-on will bring the cost of the ticket to $351 per person, or $117 per day. The offer is good for visits from Jan. 1, 2026 to May 21, 2026.

Disneyland is currently in the midst of its 70th anniversary celebration, which will continue until next summer. As part of the latter, Disneyland unveiled the show “Walt Disney — A Magical Life,” featuring the first-ever audio animatronic of the company’s founder. Disneyland this week announced an update is coming soon to one of its most historic attractions, as it will be adding Rapunzel’s Tower to its Storybook Land Canal Boats, a leisurely boat ride through tableaus of exquisite miniatures.

While Disneyland has yet to announce its full slate of programming for 2026, popular festivities such as Lunar New Year and the Food & Wine Festival are set to return. Disneyland Park in its Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge area will unveil a new mission on its attraction Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run to tie into the upcoming film, “The Mandalorian and Grogu.” The new interactive scenes are set to debut May 22, 2026.

Disney’s experiences division — which includes the Disney theme parks, cruise line and Aulani resort and spa in Hawaii — reported revenue of $9.1 billion, up 8% compared with the previous year, in its most recent quarterly earnings report. Operating income rose 13% to $2.5 billion.

Palestinian Ambassador Zomlot says ‘moment stands as defiant act of truth, a refusal to let genocide be the final word’.

The Palestinian flag has been raised outside the premises of what is now Palestine’s embassy to the United Kingdom in London, marking Britain’s historic and long-awaited recognition of a Palestinian state, as Israel’s relentless destruction of Gaza and its military’s crackdown in the occupied West Bank continue.

The flag-raising ceremony on Monday followed a speech by Palestine’s Ambassador to the UK, Husam Zomlot, outside what was previously the Palestine Mission to the UK.

“Please join me as we raise the flag of Palestine with its colours representing our nation: Black for our mourning, white for our hope, green for our land and red for the sacrifices of our people,” Zomlot said.

Zomlot said the recognition of a Palestinian state was about “righting historic wrongs and committing together to a future based on freedom, dignity and fundamental human rights”.

He called on people to remember “that this recognition comes at a time of unimaginable pain and suffering as a genocide is being waged against us – a genocide that is still being denied and allowed to continue with impunity”.

He continued: “It comes as our people in Gaza are being starved, bombed, and buried under the rubble of their homes; as our people in the West Bank are being ethnically cleansed, brutalised by daily state-sponsored terrorism, land theft and suffocating oppression.”

Zomlot said the recognition was occurring “as the humanity of Palestinian people is still questioned, our lives still treated as disposable and our basic freedoms still denied”.

“Yet, this moment stands as a defiant act of truth, a refusal to let genocide be the final word; a refusal to accept that occupation is permanent; a refusal to be erased and a refusal to be dehumanised,” he concluded.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced the United Kingdom’s decision to formally recognise a Palestinian state, more than 100 years after the Balfour Declaration backed “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people”, and 77 years after the creation of Israel in the British Mandate of Palestine.

“In the face of the growing horror in the Middle East, we are acting to keep alive the possibility of peace and of a two-state solution,” Starmer said in a video statement Sunday.

The UK government said in July it would shift its longstanding approach of holding off recognition until a supposed moment of maximum effect – unless Israel stops its genocidal war in Gaza, commits to a long-term sustainable peace process that delivers a two-state solution, and allows more aid into the enclave.

But the catastrophic situation in Gaza has only grown significantly more dire over the past few weeks, as the Israeli military continues to systematically destroy Gaza City to seize it, while continuing to starve and displace the famine-stricken population of the enclave.

Daily raids by Israeli soldiers and attacks by settlers are also ongoing across the occupied West Bank, with Israel advancing plans to annex the Palestinian territory.

Canada, Australia, and Portugal also officially recognised Palestinian statehood two days before the start of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), where Palestinian sovereignty after decades of occupation and apartheid by Israel will be in focus.

France and Saudi Arabia are preparing to host a one-day summit at the UN, a day before the start of the UNGA, both of which will be heavily focused on Israel’s war on Gaza and the elusive two-state solution.

At the UN headquarters in New York, world leaders will convene on Monday to revive the long-stalled notion, amid warnings that a contiguous Palestinian state could “vanish altogether” as a result of Israel’s hegemonic moves in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

A TEENAGER who was mauled by a shark recalled the terrifying moment she “raised her arm out of the water and saw she had no hand”.

Lulu Gribbin, 15, was enjoying a beach day in Florida last summer when she lost her arm and leg in the brutal attack.

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She and her family had heard speculation that a shark was in the sea by the beach they were at in Walton County, northwest Florida.

But it wasn’t until the teen saw “a shadow” in the water that panic set in.

She told ABC News: “I never saw a tail or a fin. I never saw its eyes.”

After spotting a “glimpse” of the shark’s body, she initially started swimming as fast as she could.

But after recalling advice she had heard in a movie, she stopped – thinking her frantic movements would encourage the shark to chase her.

It was then that her life would drastically change forever.

She said: “I told everyone to just calm down…and the next thing I know is that I raised my hand out of the water and there just was no hand there.”

Lulu was rushed to the shore where her twin sister, Ellie, sat by her side, keeping her calm and ensuring she remained conscious until paramedics arrived.

Meanwhile, doctors on the beach wrapped a tourniquet around Lulu’s injuries.

Her mom, Ann Blair Gribbin, said she rushed to the beach when her daughter didn’t pick up her phone.

Comparing her child’s injuries to something out of a movie, she said she found her “lifeless” with her “eyes closed, and her mouth white and pale”.

She said: “All I could say was, ‘Just keep breathing. Please keep breathing. God, please let her keep breathing.

“We didn’t know anything, no idea if she was alive.”

The teen was then airlifted to a Pensacola hospital where she underwent multiple surgeries leading to her leg and arm being amputated.

Doctors said she had also lost around two-thirds of the blood in her body.

Following the horror incident, her mom paid tribute to the doctors who saved Lulu’s life.

She also described her daughter as a “miracle” admitting the family’s life will “be forever changed”.

Ann said: “At this point, we will have multiple surgeries in the days to come and our lives will be forever changed.

“She is truly a miracle.  We have a long road ahead and our journey is just beginning!”

MULTIPLE ATTACKS

Lulu wasn’t the only victim that day.

According to the teen, there was another shark attack just 90 minutes before just a few miles down the coast.

She said: “If I wouldn’t known about this, I wouldn’t have been in the water”.

Lulu’s friend McCray was also bitten on her foot, and officials suspect the same beast attacked three other people.

This spate of maulings were the first in the county for three years, with the last fatality recorded in Walton County in 2005.

Cops in the area, however, stressed that sharks are always present in the Gulf.

Officers previously said: “Swimmers and beachgoers should be cautious when swimming and stay aware of their surroundings”.

Her brutal attack comes as a little boy was mercilessly savaged off the Florida coast by a blacktip shark earlier this month.

The blacktip shark rushed Richard Burrows, his sister Rose, and his dad, David, as they snorkeled at Horseshoe Reef, about four miles off Key Largo, at around 3 pm on September 1.

Richard was bitten above his right knee and on his arm, leaving him gushing blood in the water as his dad and sister scrambled to help.

David quickly applied a tourniquet to Richard’s leg to stop the bleeding, which doctors later said helped to save his life.

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