Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Class A Common Stock vs Smith & Nephew plc — how do they compare? Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Class A Common Stock trades at $356.44 (market cap $9.43B), while Smith & Nephew plc trades at $30.05 (market cap $12.54B). The key difference: Smith & Nephew plc is the larger of the two by market cap, and Smith & Nephew plc pays a 2.65% dividend while Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Class A Common Stock pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| BIO | SNN | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $9.43B | $12.54B |
Sector | Health | Health |
52-Week High | $356.25 | $38.70 |
52-Week Low | $241.71 | $28.73 |
Enterprise Value | $9.18B | $15.57B |
Dividend Yield | — | 2.65% |
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 →Smith & Nephew designs, manufactures, and markets orthopedic devices, sports medicine and arthroscopic technologies, and wound-care solutions. Roughly 42% of the U.K.-based firm's revenue comes from orthopedic products, and another 30% is sports medicine and ENT. The remaining 28% of revenue is from the advanced wound therapy segment. Roughly half of Smith & Nephew's total revenue comes from the United States, just over 30% is from other developed markets, and emerging markets account for the remainder.
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