Trip.com Group Ltd vs BIO-TECHNE Corp — how do they compare? Trip.com Group Ltd trades at $43.78 (market cap $28.12B), while BIO-TECHNE Corp trades at $71.63 (market cap $11.16B). The key difference: Trip.com Group Ltd is far larger — about 2.5× BIO-TECHNE Corp's market cap, and BIO-TECHNE Corp pays the higher dividend (0.45%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| TCOM | TECH | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $28.12B | $11.16B |
Sector | Consumer Cyclical | Health |
52-Week High | $78.96 | $72.12 |
52-Week Low | $39.84 | $43.31 |
Enterprise Value | $20.82B | $11.24B |
Dividend Yield | 0.42% | 0.45% |
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Trip.com is the largest online travel agent in China and is positioned to benefit from the country's rising demand for higher-margin outbound travel as passport penetration is only 12% in China. The company generated about 78% of sales from accommodation reservations and transportation ticketing in 2020. The rest of revenue comes from package tours and corporate travel. Prior to the pandemic in 2019, the company generated 25% of revenue from international business, which is important to its margin expansion. Most of sales come from websites and mobile platforms, while the rest come from call centers. The competes in a crowded OTA industry in China, including Meituan, Alibaba-backed Fliggy, Toncheng, and Qunar. The company was founded in 1999 and listed on the Nasdaq in December 2003.
Read more on TCOM →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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