Best Buy Co Inc vs Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Class A Common Stock — how do they compare? Best Buy Co Inc trades at $84.02 (market cap $17.55B), while Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Class A Common Stock trades at $356.44 (market cap $9.43B). The key difference: Best Buy Co Inc is the larger of the two by market cap, and Best Buy Co Inc pays a 4.61% dividend while Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Class A Common Stock pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| BBY | BIO | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $17.55B | $9.43B |
Sector | Consumer Cyclical | Health |
52-Week High | $90.17 | $356.25 |
52-Week Low | $55.52 | $241.71 |
Enterprise Value | $19.93B | $9.18B |
Dividend Yield | 4.61% | — |
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With $51.8 billion in fiscal 2022 sales, Best Buy is the largest pure-play consumer electronics retailer in the U.S., with roughly 10.6% share of the aggregate market and north of 40% share of offline sales, per our calculations, CTA industry, and Euromonitor data. The firm generates the bulk of its sales in-store, with mobile phones and tablets, computers, and appliances representing its three largest categories. Recent investments in e-commerce fulfillment, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, have seen the U.S. e-commerce channel roughly double from prepandemic levels, with management estimating that it will represent a mid-30% proportion of sales moving forward.
Read more on BBY →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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