Dolby Laboratories, Inc. vs BIO-TECHNE Corp — how do they compare? Dolby Laboratories, Inc. trades at $48.49 (market cap $4.67B), while BIO-TECHNE Corp trades at $71.23 (market cap $11.12B). The key difference: BIO-TECHNE Corp is far larger — about 2.4× Dolby Laboratories, Inc.'s market cap, and Dolby Laboratories, Inc. pays the higher dividend (2.86%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| DLB | TECH | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $4.67B | $11.12B |
Sector | Industrials | Health |
52-Week High | $76.79 | $71.38 |
52-Week Low | $48.51 | $43.31 |
Enterprise Value | $4.12B | $11.20B |
Dividend Yield | 2.86% | 0.45% |
Trailing returns across standard periods
Latest headlines on both assets
Dolby Laboratories Inc develops audio and surround sound for cinema, broadcast, home audio systems, in-car entertainment systems, DVD players, games, televisions, and personal computers. The company generates three fourths of its revenue from licensing its technology to consumer electronics manufacturers around the world. The rest of revenue comes from equipment sales to professional producers and audio engineering services.
Read more on DLB →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%.
Read more on TECH →