American Tower Corp vs Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Class A Common Stock — how do they compare? American Tower Corp trades at $169.49 (market cap $79.00B), while Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Class A Common Stock trades at $356.44 (market cap $9.43B). The key difference: American Tower Corp is far larger — about 8.4× Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Class A Common Stock's market cap, and American Tower Corp pays a 4.12% dividend while Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Class A Common Stock pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| AMT | BIO | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $79.00B | $9.43B |
Sector | Real Estate | Health |
52-Week High | $211.88 | $356.25 |
52-Week Low | $162.11 | $241.71 |
Enterprise Value | $122.53B | $9.18B |
Dividend Yield | 4.12% | — |
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American Tower owns and operates more than 220,000 cell towers throughout the U.S., Asia, Latin America, Europe, and Africa. It also owns and/or operates 25 data centers in eight U.S. markets after acquiring CoreSite. On its towers, the company has a very concentrated customer base, with most revenue in each market being generated by just the top few mobile carriers. The company operates more than 40,000 towers in the U.S., which accounted for more than half of its total revenue in 2021. Outside the U.S., American Tower's greatest presence is in India and Brazil, where it operates roughly 75,000 and 19,000 towers, respectively. American Tower operates as a real estate investment trust.
Read more on AMT →Bio-Rad Laboratories, headquartered in Hercules, California, develops, manufactures, and markets products and solutions for the clinical diagnostics and life sciences markets. In diagnostics (53% of sales), Bio-Rad manufactures, sells, and supports test systems and specialized quality controls for clinical laboratories. In life sciences (47% of sales), the firm develops and manufactures a range of instruments and reagents used in research, biopharmaceutical production, and food testing. The company is geographically diverse, with major markets in the Americas (42% of 2021 sales), Europe and Africa (33%), and Asia-Pacific (25%). Bio-Rad owns 37% of Sartorius AG, a laboratory and biopharmaceutical supplier.
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