Becton Dickinson and Co vs BIO-TECHNE Corp — how do they compare? Becton Dickinson and Co trades at $154.29 (market cap $42.39B), while BIO-TECHNE Corp trades at $71.23 (market cap $11.12B). The key difference: Becton Dickinson and Co is far larger — about 3.8× BIO-TECHNE Corp's market cap, and Becton Dickinson and Co pays the higher dividend (2.73%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| BDX | TECH | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $42.39B | $11.12B |
Sector | Health | Health |
52-Week High | $185.39 | $71.38 |
52-Week Low | $135.49 | $43.31 |
Enterprise Value | $58.85B | $11.20B |
Dividend Yield | 2.73% | 0.45% |
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Becton, Dickinson is the world's largest manufacturer and distributor of medical surgical products, such as needles, syringes, and sharps-disposal units. The company also manufactures diagnostic instruments and reagents, as well as flow cytometry and cell-imaging systems. BD Interventional (largely the former Bard business) accounts for 23% of revenue. International revenue accounts for 44% of the company's business.
Read more on BDX →Based in Minnesota, Bio-Techne is a life sciences manufacturer supplying consumables and instruments for the pharma, biotech, academic, and diagnostic markets. The company reports in two segments, protein sciences (75% of revenue), and diagnostics and genomics (25%). The protein-focused segment makes equipment and associated consumables for protein characterization and analysis and sells antibodies for research and clinical purposes. In diagnostics, Bio-Techne provides controls and calibrators for diagnostic manufacturers and has a portfolio of diagnostic oncology assays. The United States accounts for about 55% of revenue, and the firm also has operations in EMEA (20% of sales), the U.K. (5%), and APAC (15%), with the rest of the world accounting for the remaining 5%.
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