BIO-TECHNE Corp vs Vital Farms Inc — how do they compare? BIO-TECHNE Corp trades at $71.63 (market cap $11.16B), while Vital Farms Inc trades at $13.16 (market cap $590.45M). The key difference: BIO-TECHNE Corp is far larger — about 18.9× Vital Farms Inc's market cap, and BIO-TECHNE Corp pays a 0.45% dividend while Vital Farms Inc pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| TECH | VITL | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $11.16B | $590.45M |
Sector | Health | Consumer Staples |
52-Week High | $72.12 | $52.41 |
52-Week Low | $43.31 | $8.28 |
Enterprise Value | $11.24B | $593.26M |
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 →Vital Farms is a leading provider of ethically produced, pasture-raised eggs and butter in the United States. Operating as a Public Benefit Corporation, it manages a network of over 650 family farms to deliver high-welfare food products. It leverages a scalable 'asset-light' partnership model that prioritizes transparency and animal welfare to meet the growing consumer demand for clean-label and sustainable food sources.
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