Gilead Sciences, Inc. vs Msci Inc — how do they compare? Gilead Sciences, Inc. trades at $135.34 (market cap $168.35B), while Msci Inc trades at $562 (market cap $40.84B). The key difference: Gilead Sciences, Inc. is far larger — about 4.1× Msci Inc's market cap, and Gilead Sciences, Inc. pays the higher dividend (2.42%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| GILD | MSCI | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $168.35B | $40.84B |
Sector | Health | Financials |
52-Week High | $155.80 | $643.83 |
52-Week Low | $110.56 | $511.84 |
Enterprise Value | $191.42B | $47.00B |
Dividend Yield | 2.42% | 1.46% |
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Gilead Sciences develops and markets therapies to treat life-threatening infectious diseases, with the core of its portfolio focused on HIV and hepatitis B and C. The acquisitions of Corus Pharma, Myogen, CV Therapeutics, Arresto Biosciences, and Calistoga have broadened this focus to include pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases and cancer. Gilead's acquisition of Pharmasset brought rights to hepatitis C drug Sovaldi, which is also part of combination drug Harvoni, and the Kite, Forty Seven, and Immunomedics acquisitions boost Gilead's exposure to cell therapy and noncell therapy in oncology.
Read more on GILD →MSCI describes its mission as enabling investors to build better portfolios for a better world. MSCI's largest and most profitable segment is its index segment, where it provides benchmarking to asset managers and asset owners. In addition, it boasts over $1 trillion in ETF assets linked to MSCI indexes. The MSCI analytics segment provides portfolio management and risk management analytics software to asset managers and asset owners. MSCI's all other segment was broken out into ESG and climate and private assets segments in 2021. In ESG and climate, MSCI provides ESG data to the investment industry. In the private assets side, MSCI provides real restate reporting, market data, benchmarking, and analytics to investors and real estate managers.
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