Northrop Grumman Corporation vs BIO-TECHNE Corp — how do they compare? Northrop Grumman Corporation trades at $524 (market cap $74.42B), while BIO-TECHNE Corp trades at $71.63 (market cap $11.16B). The key difference: Northrop Grumman Corporation is far larger — about 6.7× BIO-TECHNE Corp's market cap, and Northrop Grumman Corporation pays the higher dividend (1.79%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| NOC | TECH | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $74.42B | $11.16B |
Sector | Industrials | Health |
52-Week High | $768.02 | $72.12 |
52-Week Low | $496.02 | $43.31 |
Enterprise Value | $88.65B | $11.24B |
Dividend Yield | 1.79% | 0.45% |
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Northrop Grumman is a defense contractor that is diversified across short-cycle and long-cycle businesses. The firm's segments include aeronautics, mission systems, defense services, and space systems. The company's aerospace segment creates the fuselage for the massive F-35 program and produces various piloted and autonomous flight systems. Mission systems creates a variety of sensors and processors for defense hardware. The defense systems segment is a long-range missile manufacturer. Finally, the company's space systems segment produces various space structures, sensors, and satellites.
Read more on NOC →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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