CRL vs. A, MTD, WAT, ILMN, TECH, BRKR, BIO, PACB, HBIO, and LIFE
Should you be buying Charles River Laboratories International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Charles River Laboratories International include Agilent Technologies (A), Mettler-Toledo International (MTD), Waters (WAT), Illumina (ILMN), Bio-Techne (TECH), Bruker (BRKR), Bio-Rad Laboratories (BIO), Pacific Biosciences of California (PACB), Harvard Bioscience (HBIO), and aTyr Pharma (LIFE). These companies are all part of the "life sciences tools & services" industry.
Charles River Laboratories International (NYSE:CRL) and Agilent Technologies (NYSE:A) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, earnings and community ranking.
Charles River Laboratories International has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Agilent Technologies has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Charles River Laboratories International currently has a consensus price target of $256.38, suggesting a potential upside of 19.37%. Agilent Technologies has a consensus price target of $136.50, suggesting a potential upside of 2.65%. Given Charles River Laboratories International's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Charles River Laboratories International is more favorable than Agilent Technologies.
Agilent Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Charles River Laboratories International. Charles River Laboratories International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Agilent Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
98.9% of Charles River Laboratories International shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.4% of Agilent Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Charles River Laboratories International shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Agilent Technologies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Agilent Technologies received 371 more outperform votes than Charles River Laboratories International when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.64% of users gave Agilent Technologies an outperform vote while only 61.53% of users gave Charles River Laboratories International an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Agilent Technologies had 4 more articles in the media than Charles River Laboratories International. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Agilent Technologies and 20 mentions for Charles River Laboratories International. Charles River Laboratories International's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Agilent Technologies' score of 0.47 indicating that Charles River Laboratories International is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Agilent Technologies has a net margin of 18.84% compared to Charles River Laboratories International's net margin of 10.81%. Agilent Technologies' return on equity of 26.25% beat Charles River Laboratories International's return on equity.
Summary
Agilent Technologies beats Charles River Laboratories International on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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