Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Class A Common Stock vs Western Digital Corp — how do they compare? Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Class A Common Stock trades at $356.44 (market cap $9.43B), while Western Digital Corp trades at $452.9 (market cap $150.95B). The key difference: Western Digital Corp is far larger — about 16× Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Class A Common Stock's market cap, and Western Digital Corp 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 | WDC | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $9.43B | $150.95B |
Sector | Health | Technology |
52-Week High | $356.25 | $746.23 |
52-Week Low | $241.71 | $74.66 |
Enterprise Value | $9.18B | $150.42B |
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 →Western Digital is a vertically integrated supplier of data storage solutions, spanning both hard disk drives and solid-state drives. In the HDD market it forms a practical duopoly with Seagate, and it is the largest global producer of NAND flash chips for SSDs in a joint venture with competitor Kioxia.
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