Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Class A Common Stock vs Teradyne, Inc. — how do they compare? Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Class A Common Stock trades at $356.44 (market cap $9.43B), while Teradyne, Inc. trades at $388.36 (market cap $59.34B). The key difference: Teradyne, Inc. is far larger — about 6.3× Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Class A Common Stock's market cap, and Teradyne, Inc. pays a 0.14% dividend while Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Class A Common Stock pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| BIO | TER | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $9.43B | $59.34B |
Sector | Health | Technology |
52-Week High | $356.25 | $483.84 |
52-Week Low | $241.71 | $109.30 |
Enterprise Value | $9.18B | $59.09B |
Dividend Yield | — | 0.14% |
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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 →Teradyne provides testing equipment, including automated test equipment for semiconductors, system testing for hard disk drives, circuit boards, and electronics systems and wireless testing for devices. The firm entered the industrial automation market in 2015, into which it sells collaborative and autonomous robots for factory applications. Teradyne serves numerous end markets and geographies directly and indirectly with its products, but its most significant exposure is to semiconductor testing, which made up 71% of 2021 sales. Teradyne serves vertically integrated, fabless, and foundry chipmakers with its equipment.
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