Broadcom Inc vs Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Class A Common Stock — how do they compare? Broadcom Inc trades at $419.79 (market cap $1.98T), while Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Class A Common Stock trades at $356.44 (market cap $9.43B). The key difference: Broadcom Inc is far larger — about 210× Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Class A Common Stock's market cap, and Broadcom Inc pays a 0.62% dividend while Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Class A Common Stock pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| AVGO | BIO | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $1.98T | $9.43B |
Sector | Technology | Health |
52-Week High | $481.57 | $356.25 |
52-Week Low | $289.60 | $241.71 |
Enterprise Value | $2.02T | $9.18B |
Dividend Yield | 0.62% | — |
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Broadcom--the combined entity of Broadcom and Avago--boasts a highly diverse product portfolio across an array of end markets. Avago focused primarily on radio frequency filters and amplifiers used in high-end smartphones, such as the Apple iPhone and Samsung Galaxy devices, in addition to an assortment of solutions for wired infrastructure, enterprise storage, and industrial end markets. Legacy Broadcom targeted networking semiconductors, such as switch and physical layer chips, broadband products (such as television set-top box processors), and connectivity chips that handle standards such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The company has acquired Brocade, CA Technologies, Symantec's enterprise security business, and has a pending deal to acquire VMware to bolster its offerings in software.
Read more on AVGO →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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