BIO-TECHNE Corp vs Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR Fund — how do they compare? BIO-TECHNE Corp trades at $71.63 (market cap $11.16B), while Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR Fund trades at $114.85. The key difference: BIO-TECHNE Corp pays a 0.45% dividend while Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR Fund pays none, and BIO-TECHNE Corp is trading nearer its 52-week high, Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR Fund nearer its low. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| TECH | XLY | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $11.16B | — |
Sector | Health | — |
52-Week High | $72.12 | $124.52 |
52-Week Low | $43.31 | $105.64 |
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 →In seeking to track the performance of the index, the fund employs a replication strategy. It generally invests substantially all, but at least 95%, of its total assets in the securities comprising the index. The index includes securities of companies from the following industries: retail; hotels, restaurants and leisure; textiles, apparel and luxury goods; household durables; automobiles; auto components; distributors; leisure products; and diversified consumer services. It is non-diversified.
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