BIO-TECHNE Corp vs Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund ETF — how do they compare? BIO-TECHNE Corp trades at $71.63 (market cap $11.16B), while Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund ETF trades at $99.41. The key difference: BIO-TECHNE Corp pays a 0.45% dividend while Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund ETF pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| TECH | VNQ | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $11.16B | — |
Sector | Health | — |
52-Week High | $72.12 | $100.07 |
52-Week Low | $43.31 | $87.00 |
Enterprise Value | $11.24B | — |
Dividend Yield | 0.45% | — |
Trailing returns across standard periods
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 MSCI US Investable Market Real Estate 25/50 Index, an index made up of stocks of large, mid-size, and small US companies within the real estate sector. The Advisor attempts to replicate the target index by seeking to invest all of its assets in the stocks that make up the index, in order to hold each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index. It is non-diversified.
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