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STERIS plc (STE) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Company snapshot — STERIS plc

STE in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Steris supplies infection-prevention equipment and services to hospitals, medical-device makers and pharmaceutical manufacturers. It sells sterilizers, washers, endoscope-reprocessing systems and procedure-room equipment such as surgical tables and lights, alongside repair, maintenance and sterile-processing outsourcing. A separate part of the business runs contract sterilization for device and pharma makers using accelerators, gas and other sterilization modalities, plus the process validation and testing that supports it. It also sells cleaning chemistries, disinfectants and water-purification systems used in pharmaceutical manufacturing. The company is headquartered in Mentor, Ohio, and listed in the United States.
Where it sits in the stack
Steris carries no seat in our Rubin index of the AI build-out, so it sits outside that stack; it belongs to the healthcare sector of our universe, in medical devices and hospital-facing equipment and services.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's peer group for Steris is not populated in the diary's data; the comparison the market draws most often is with Getinge, another sterilization and infection-control supplier to hospitals.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
It holds a seat in the S&P 500 but carries no Closelooknet score and no peer group in the diary's records, and it has not been quoted in any edition so far.
What the diary watches
Whether the shares hold above their recent chart weakness, given the stock trades well below both its 50-day and 200-day averages and off its 52-week high.

STERIS plc (STE) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for STE, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Medical Devices · United States · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Medical Devices · United States

This name carries no Closelooknet score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against STE on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 1.23%, quarterly · last 0.69 USD on 2026-09-04

Dividends and capital return

What STE pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 2.58 USD per share · a 1.23% yield on the 2026-09-25 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-25
  • Change on the year +10.3% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 2.34 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.69 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-09-04
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.52 USD (partial) · 2024: 2.18 USD · 2025: 2.40 USD · 2026: 1.95 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-11-20

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

How it trades on rate days beta 0.56 to TLT · on the worst bond days it moved with the market

How it trades on rate days

How STE has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.56 — tends to move with bonds for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), STERIS plc moved 0.56% on average · correlation 0.21 · higher than 58% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.50 about the same as over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −0.68% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days −0.58% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 62/100 · S&P 500 fund at 67, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-25
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +8.4% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-25
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.61 · up 0.29 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-25

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-26

Quick answers

What is STERIS plc (STE)?

STERIS plc trades as STE on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-26.

Is STE in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — STERIS plc is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-09-26.

Where does STE trade against its moving averages?

Downtrend stack: Trades -6.8% vs the 50-day and -8.8% vs the 200-day average, 22.3% below the 52-week high and +7.1% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-25 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does STERIS plc do?

Steris supplies infection-prevention equipment and services to hospitals, medical-device makers and pharmaceutical manufacturers. It sells sterilizers, washers, endoscope-reprocessing systems and procedure-room equipment such as surgical tables and lights, alongside repair, maintenance and sterile-processing outsourcing. A separate part of the business runs contract sterilization for device and pharma makers using accelerators, gas and other sterilization modalities, plus the process validation and testing that supports it. Closelooknet's peer group for Steris is not populated in the diary's data; the comparison the market draws most often is with Getinge, another sterilization and infection-control supplier to hospitals.

Where does STERIS plc sit in the AI build-out?

Steris carries no seat in our Rubin index of the AI build-out, so it sits outside that stack; it belongs to the healthcare sector of our universe, in medical devices and hospital-facing equipment and services. It holds a seat in the S&P 500 but carries no Closelooknet score and no peer group in the diary's records, and it has not been quoted in any edition so far.

Does STERIS plc pay a dividend?

STERIS plc has paid 2.58 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 1.23% on the 2026-09-25 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.69 USD on 2026-09-04. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

How does STERIS plc trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year STERIS plc had a beta of 0.56 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it tends to move with bonds, higher than 58% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −0.68% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for STE, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

then Medical Devices. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.