Ross Stores, Inc. vs BIO-TECHNE Corp — how do they compare? Ross Stores, Inc. trades at $235 (market cap $75.63B), while BIO-TECHNE Corp trades at $71.63 (market cap $11.16B). The key difference: Ross Stores, Inc. is far larger — about 6.8× BIO-TECHNE Corp's market cap, and Ross Stores, Inc. pays the higher dividend (0.75%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| ROST | TECH | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $75.63B | $11.16B |
Sector | Consumer Cyclical | Health |
52-Week High | $240.13 | $72.12 |
52-Week Low | $134.02 | $43.31 |
Enterprise Value | $76.23B | $11.24B |
Dividend Yield | 0.75% | 0.45% |
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Latest headlines on both assets
Ross Stores is a leading American off-price apparel and home fashion retailer, operating over 1,920 stores (at the end of fiscal 2021) across the Ross Dress for Less and dd's Discounts banners. Ross offers a variety of name-brand products and targets undercutting conventional retailers' regular prices by 20%-70%. The company uses an opportunistic, flexible merchandising approach
Read more on ROST →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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