Adjusted diluted net earnings per share were $1.80, up approximately 5% year-over-year.
Adjusted operating profit margin was 27.3%, flat year-over-year, driven by volume leverage, product mix, and cost management.
Biotechnology segment core revenue increased 6%, led by high single-digit growth in bioprocessing and a slight decline in discovery and medical.
Cepheid's non-respiratory molecular diagnostics grew double digits, driven by sexual health, virology, and hospital-acquired infections assays.
Diagnostics segment core revenue increased 2%, with strong growth outside China, especially in clinical diagnostics and molecular diagnostics non-respiratory revenue.
Free cash flow was $1.1 billion in the quarter and $2.2 billion in the first half, with a 143% free cash flow to net income conversion ratio year-to-date.
Life sciences segment core revenue declined 2.5%, impacted by weak academic and government demand and lower genomics consumables sales.
Second quarter sales were $5.9 billion with 1.5% core revenue growth year-over-year.