Dollar General Corp. vs BIO-TECHNE Corp — how do they compare? Dollar General Corp. trades at $119.27 (market cap $27.23B), while BIO-TECHNE Corp trades at $71.23 (market cap $11.12B). The key difference: Dollar General Corp. is far larger — about 2.4× BIO-TECHNE Corp's market cap, and Dollar General Corp. pays the higher dividend (1.91%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| DG | TECH | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $27.23B | $11.12B |
Sector | Consumer Staples | Health |
52-Week High | $156.26 | $71.38 |
52-Week Low | $95.94 | $43.31 |
Enterprise Value | $41.67B | $11.20B |
Dividend Yield | 1.91% | 0.45% |
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Latest headlines on both assets
A leading American discount retailer, Dollar General operates over 18,000 stores in 47 states, selling branded and private-label products across a wide variety of categories. In fiscal 2021, 77% of net sales came from consumables (including paper and cleaning products, packaged and perishable food, tobacco, and health and beauty items), 12% from seasonal merchandise (such as toys, greeting cards, decorations, and gardening supplies), 7% from home products (for example, kitchen supplies, small appliances, and cookware), and 4% from basic apparel. Stores average roughly 7,400 square feet, and about 75% of Dollar General locations are in towns of 20,000 or fewer people. The firm emphasizes value, with most of its items sold at everyday low prices of $5 or less.
Read more on DG →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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