BIO-TECHNE Corp vs Western Digital Corp — how do they compare? BIO-TECHNE Corp trades at $72.4 (market cap $11.24B), while Western Digital Corp trades at $449.93 (market cap $150.95B). The key difference: Western Digital Corp is far larger — about 13.4× BIO-TECHNE Corp's market cap, and BIO-TECHNE Corp pays the higher dividend (0.44%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| TECH | WDC | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $11.24B | $150.95B |
Sector | Health | Technology |
52-Week High | $72.29 | $746.23 |
52-Week Low | $43.31 | $74.66 |
Enterprise Value | $11.32B | $150.42B |
Dividend Yield | 0.44% | 0.14% |
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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 →Western Digital is a vertically integrated supplier of data storage solutions, spanning both hard disk drives and solid-state drives. In the HDD market it forms a practical duopoly with Seagate, and it is the largest global producer of NAND flash chips for SSDs in a joint venture with competitor Kioxia.
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