Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Class A Common Stock vs Extra Space Storage, Inc. — how do they compare? Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Class A Common Stock trades at $356.44 (market cap $9.43B), while Extra Space Storage, Inc. trades at $146.41 (market cap $30.96B). The key difference: Extra Space Storage, Inc. is far larger — about 3.3× Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Class A Common Stock's market cap, and Extra Space Storage, Inc. pays a 4.42% dividend while Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Class A Common Stock pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| BIO | EXR | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $9.43B | $30.96B |
Sector | Health | Real Estate |
52-Week High | $356.25 | $152.85 |
52-Week Low | $241.71 | $126.67 |
Enterprise Value | $9.18B | $44.68B |
Dividend Yield | — | 4.42% |
Trailing returns across standard periods
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.
Read more on BIO →Extra Space Storage is a fully integrated real estate investment trust that owns, operates, and manages almost 2,100 self-storage properties in 41 states, with over 160 million net rentable square feet of storage space. Of these properties, approximately one half is wholly owned, while some facilities are owned through joint ventures and others are owned by third parties and managed by Extra Space Storage in exchange for a management fee.
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