Novo Nordisk A/S vs BIO-TECHNE Corp — how do they compare? Novo Nordisk A/S trades at $49.33 (market cap $220.53B), while BIO-TECHNE Corp trades at $71.63 (market cap $11.16B). The key difference: Novo Nordisk A/S is far larger — about 19.8× BIO-TECHNE Corp's market cap, and Novo Nordisk A/S pays the higher dividend (3.63%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| NVO | TECH | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $220.53B | $11.16B |
Sector | Health | Health |
52-Week High | $71.70 | $72.12 |
52-Week Low | $35.29 | $43.31 |
Enterprise Value | $239.49B | $11.24B |
Dividend Yield | 3.63% | 0.45% |
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Latest headlines on both assets
With almost 50% market share by volume of the global insulin market, Novo Nordisk is the leading provider of diabetes-care products in the world. Based in Denmark, the company manufactures and markets a variety of human and modern insulins, injectable diabetes treatments, and oral antidiabetic agents. Novo also has a biopharmaceutical segment (constituting roughly 15% of revenue) that specializes in protein therapies for hemophilia and other disorders.
Read more on NVO →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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