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Agilent Technologies acquisitions, on the record
The businesses Agilent Technologies bought and sold, as its annual reports describe them, with the cash it reported paying for acquisitions each year and every deal filing since 2016.
Deals its annual reports describe
| Business | Deal | When | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
Resolution Bioscience businessWord for word“In the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2023, we received an unsolicited offer and entered into an agreement to divest the Resolution Bioscience business for $50 million.” 10-K for 2023 | agreed divestiture | In the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2023 | $50 million |
two businessesWord for word“In fiscal year 2023, we acquired two businesses for a total purchase price of $ 51 million.” 10-K for 2023 | acquisition | In fiscal year 2023 | — |
Polymer Standards Service GmbH (PSS)Word for word“In fiscal year 2022, we acquired Polymer Standards Service GmbH (PSS), a provider of solutions in the field of polymer characterization for $ 41 million.” 10-K for 2023 | acquisition | In fiscal year 2022 | — |
BIOVECTRAWord for word“On September 20, 2024, we acquired 100 percent of the stock of BIOVECTRA for total consideration of $915 million in cash.” 10-K for 2024 | acquisition | September 20, 2024 | $915 million |
Polymer Standards ServiceWord for word“In 2024, we invested $862 million primarily for our acquisition of BIOVECTRA and one other acquisition compared to $51 million for two acquisitions in 2023 and $52 million for our acquisition of Polymer Standards Service and advanced artificial intelligence technology in 2022.” 10-K for 2024 | acquisition | 2022 | $52 million |
| Fiscal year ended | Cash paid for acquisitions (net of cash acquired) | Cash received from selling businesses | Goodwill from acquisitions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-31 | $261 million | — | $156 million |
| 2017-10-31 | $128 million | — | $78 million |
| 2018-10-31 | $516 million | — | $381 million |
| 2019-10-31 | $1.41 billion | — | $625 million |
| 2020-10-31 | $0 | — | $0 |
| 2021-10-31 | $547 million | $0 | $365 million |
| 2022-10-31 | $52 million | $0 | $19 million |
| 2023-10-31 | $51 million | $50 million | $15 million |
| 2024-10-31 | $862 million | $0 | $526 million |
| 2025-10-31 | −$4 million | $0 | — |
Deal filings since 2016
- 2026-06-25 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
- 2024-09-09 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
- 2023-06-13 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
- 2022-04-19 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
- 2021-12-10 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
- 2021-04-22 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
- 2021-03-12 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
- 2020-06-04 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
- 2020-04-20 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
- 2019-10-22 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
- 2019-09-16 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
- 2019-08-08 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
- 2019-03-13 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
- 2017-07-17 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
- 2016-09-22 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
- 2016-09-16 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
Read from Agilent Technologies’s annual reports (10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024, 10-K for 2023) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2025-12-22. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.