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SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-25-003608 to THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC INC. (TMO)

THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC INC.
Date: April 3, 2025 · CIK: 0000097745 · Accession: 0000000000-25-003608

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File numbers found in text: 001-08002

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April 3, 2025
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THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC INC.

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Re: Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 File No. 001-08002 Dear Stephen Williamson:

April 3, 2025

Stephen Williamson Chief Financial Officer Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 168 Third Avenue Waltham , Massachusetts 02451

We have limited our review of your filing to the financial statements and related disclosures and have the following comments.

Please respond to this letter within ten business days by providing the requested information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If you do not believe a comment applies to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your response.

After reviewing your response to this letter, we may have additional comments.

Form 10-K For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Segment Results, page 21

1. Please expand your discussion of segment results to include additional material information as described in Item 303 of Regulation S-K for each of your segments. For example, please expand your discussion of the very strong growth in the electron microscopy business and declines in the other instrumentation businesses to include additional fact specific insight describing the reasons for the growth and declines in the businesses, as well as related quantitative information. Please provide us any proposed disclosure for future filings. April 3, 2025 Page 2 Item 8. Financial Statements Disaggregated Revenues, page 53

2. Please tell us how you applied the guidance in ASC 606-10-55-89 through 55-91 when selecting the categories to use to disaggregate revenues. As part of your response, please address how you considered disclosure of revenue attributable to the primary / key businesses identified on pages 3 and 4. In this regard, we also note your use of pie charts to reflect the revenues attributable to these businesses in your 2024 Investor Day presentation. In addition, please tell us how you considered ASC 280- 10-50-40 as it relates to your segment disclosures.

In closing, we remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of action by the staff.

Please contact Kristin Lochhead at 202-551-3664 or Michael Fay at 202-551-3812 with any questions.

Sincerely,
Division of
Corporation Finance
Office of
Industrial Applications and
Services

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 April 3, 2025

Stephen Williamson
Chief Financial Officer
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
168 Third Avenue
Waltham , Massachusetts 02451

 Re: Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
 Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024
 File No. 001-08002
Dear Stephen Williamson:

 We have limited our review of your filing to the financial statements
and related
disclosures and have the following comments.

 Please respond to this letter within ten business days by providing the
requested
information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If you do
not believe a
comment applies to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your
response.

 After reviewing your response to this letter, we may have additional
comments.

Form 10-K For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024
Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results
of
Operations
Segment Results, page 21

1. Please expand your discussion of segment results to include additional
material
 information as described in Item 303 of Regulation S-K for each of your
segments.
 For example, please expand your discussion of the very strong growth in
the electron
 microscopy business and declines in the other instrumentation businesses
to include
 additional fact specific insight describing the reasons for the growth
and declines in
 the businesses, as well as related quantitative information. Please
provide us any
 proposed disclosure for future filings.
 April 3, 2025
Page 2
Item 8. Financial Statements
Disaggregated Revenues, page 53

2. Please tell us how you applied the guidance in ASC 606-10-55-89 through
55-91
 when selecting the categories to use to disaggregate revenues. As part
of your
 response, please address how you considered disclosure of revenue
attributable to the
 primary / key businesses identified on pages 3 and 4. In this regard, we
also note your
 use of pie charts to reflect the revenues attributable to these
businesses in your 2024
 Investor Day presentation. In addition, please tell us how you
considered ASC 280-
 10-50-40 as it relates to your segment disclosures.

 In closing, we remind you that the company and its management are
responsible for
the accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review,
comments,
action or absence of action by the staff.

 Please contact Kristin Lochhead at 202-551-3664 or Michael Fay at
202-551-3812
with any questions.

 Sincerely,

 Division of
Corporation Finance
 Office of
Industrial Applications and
 Services
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