SkyWest Inc vs BIO-TECHNE Corp — how do they compare? SkyWest Inc trades at $95.26 (market cap $3.94B), while BIO-TECHNE Corp trades at $71.63 (market cap $11.16B). The key difference: BIO-TECHNE Corp is far larger — about 2.8× SkyWest Inc's market cap, and BIO-TECHNE Corp pays a 0.45% dividend while SkyWest Inc pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| SKYW | TECH | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $3.94B | $11.16B |
Sector | Technology | Health |
52-Week High | $123.72 | $72.12 |
52-Week Low | $78.40 | $43.31 |
Enterprise Value | $5.79B | $11.24B |
Dividend Yield | — | 0.45% |
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SkyWest, Inc. is a major North American regional airline company, operating primarily through its subsidiary, SkyWest Airlines. The company provides regional airline service to various large airlines under contract, including United Airlines (as United Express), Delta Air Lines (as Delta Connection), American Airlines (as American Eagle), and Alaska Airlines (as Alaska SkyWest). SKYW's primary business is providing essential flight services, connecting smaller cities to major airline hubs across the United States.
Read more on SKYW →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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