Medline's IPO Highlights Strong Investor Interest in a Quiet Sector of Healthcare
Written by Emily J. Thompson, Senior Investment Analyst
Updated: Dec 17 2025
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Source: MarketWatch
Medline's Stock Surge: Medline's stock (MDLN) increased by 41% above its IPO price, marking a significant performance in the healthcare sector.
Comparison with Other Stocks: This surge is noted as the best offer-to-close price performance since diagnostics company BillionToOne (BLLN) saw an 82% rise on its first trading day.
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About BLLN
BillionToOne, Inc. is a precision diagnostics company that quantifies biology to create molecular diagnostics. The Company's proprietary molecular counting platform is designed to detect and measure deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecules at a single-count level to help improve disease detection. It applies the proprietary technology to non-invasive prenatal screening (Prenatal) and liquid biopsy (Oncology). Its Quantitative Counting Templates (QCTs), power its ability to detect and measure tiny and sparse disease-related DNA fragments, or molecules, at the single base-pair level. These include pregnancy-related DNA that code for recessively inherited conditions such as sickle cell disease and cystic fibrosis and ctDNA in the case of cancer. Its prenatal products include UNITY Complete, UNITY Fetal Risk Screen, UNITY Aneuploidy Screen, UNITY Fetal RhD NIPT, UNITY Fetal Antigen NIPT, and UNITY Fetal Antigen CTA NIPT. Its oncology products include Northstar and Northstar Select.
About the author

Emily J. Thompson
Emily J. Thompson, a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with 12 years in investment research, graduated with honors from the Wharton School. Specializing in industrial and technology stocks, she provides in-depth analysis for Intellectia’s earnings and market brief reports.





