BIO-TECHNE Corp vs Vanguard Tax Managed Fund FTSE Developed Markets ETF — how do they compare? BIO-TECHNE Corp trades at $71.63 (market cap $11.16B), while Vanguard Tax Managed Fund FTSE Developed Markets ETF trades at $70.47. The key difference: BIO-TECHNE Corp pays a 0.45% dividend while Vanguard Tax Managed Fund FTSE Developed Markets ETF pays none, and BIO-TECHNE Corp is trading nearer its 52-week high, Vanguard Tax Managed Fund FTSE Developed Markets ETF nearer its low. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| TECH | VEA | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $11.16B | — |
Sector | Health | — |
52-Week High | $72.12 | $72.39 |
52-Week Low | $43.31 | $56.02 |
Enterprise Value | $11.24B | — |
Dividend Yield | 0.45% | — |
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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%.
Read more on TECH →The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the FTSE Developed All Cap ex US Index, a market-capitalization-weighted index that is made up of approximately 4022 common stocks of large-, mid-, and small-cap companies located in Canada and the major markets of Europe and the Pacific region. The advisor attempts to replicate the target index by investing all, or substantially all, of its assets in the stocks that make up the index, holding each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index.
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