Agilent Technologies Inc vs Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF — how do they compare? Agilent Technologies Inc trades at $148.72 (market cap $42.22B), while Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF trades at $121. The key difference: Agilent Technologies Inc pays a 0.68% dividend while Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| A | VGT | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $42.22B | — |
Sector | Health | — |
52-Week High | $157.20 | $125.77 |
52-Week Low | $110.24 | $83.59 |
Enterprise Value | $43.77B | — |
Dividend Yield | 0.68% | — |
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Latest headlines on both assets
Originally spun out of Hewlett-Packard in 1999, Agilent has evolved into a leading life sciences and diagnostics firm. Today, Agilent's measurement technologies serve a broad base of customers with its three operating segments: life science and applied tools (45% of fiscal 2021 sales), cross lab (35% of sales consisting of consumables and services related to its life science and applied tools), and diagnostics and genomics (20%). Over half of its sales are generated from the biopharmaceutical, chemical, and energy end markets, but it also supports clinical lab, environmental, forensics, food, academic, and government-related organizations. The company is geographically diverse, with operations in the U.S. (34%) and China (20%) representing the largest country concentrations.
Read more on A →The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the MSCI US Investable Market Index/Information Technology 25/50, an index made up of stocks of large, mid-size, and small US companies within the information technology sector, as classified under the GICS. The advisor attempts to replicate the target index by seeking to invest all of its assets in the stocks that make up the index, in order to hold each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index. It is non-diversified.
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