Nutrien Ltd vs BIO-TECHNE Corp — how do they compare? Nutrien Ltd trades at $66.8 (market cap $31.67B), while BIO-TECHNE Corp trades at $71.63 (market cap $11.16B). The key difference: Nutrien Ltd is far larger — about 2.8× BIO-TECHNE Corp's market cap, and Nutrien Ltd pays the higher dividend (3.3%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| NTR | TECH | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $31.67B | $11.16B |
Sector | Basic Materials | Health |
52-Week High | $83.94 | $72.12 |
52-Week Low | $53.64 | $43.31 |
Enterprise Value | $44.84B | $11.24B |
Dividend Yield | 3.3% | 0.45% |
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Created in 2018 as a result of the merger between PotashCorp and Agrium, Nutrien is the world's largest fertilizer producer by capacity. Nutrien produces the three main crop nutrients--nitrogen, potash, and phosphate--although its main focus is potash, where it is the global leader in installed capacity with roughly 20% share. The company is also the largest agricultural retailer in the United States, selling fertilizers, crop chemicals, seeds, and services directly to farm customers through its brick-and-mortar stores and online platforms.
Read more on NTR →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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