TMO vs. A, MTD, WAT, ILMN, TECH, CRL, BRKR, BIO, PACB, and HBIO
Should you be buying Thermo Fisher Scientific stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Thermo Fisher Scientific include Agilent Technologies (A), Mettler-Toledo International (MTD), Waters (WAT), Illumina (ILMN), Bio-Techne (TECH), Charles River Laboratories International (CRL), Bruker (BRKR), Bio-Rad Laboratories (BIO), Pacific Biosciences of California (PACB), and Harvard Bioscience (HBIO). These companies are all part of the "life sciences tools & services" industry.
Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE:TMO) and Agilent Technologies (NYSE:A) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations and valuation.
In the previous week, Agilent Technologies had 6 more articles in the media than Thermo Fisher Scientific. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Agilent Technologies and 17 mentions for Thermo Fisher Scientific. Thermo Fisher Scientific's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Agilent Technologies' score of 0.47 indicating that Thermo Fisher Scientific is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Agilent Technologies has a net margin of 18.84% compared to Thermo Fisher Scientific's net margin of 14.20%. Agilent Technologies' return on equity of 26.25% beat Thermo Fisher Scientific's return on equity.
Thermo Fisher Scientific has higher revenue and earnings than Agilent Technologies. Agilent Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Thermo Fisher Scientific, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Thermo Fisher Scientific presently has a consensus price target of $607.94, indicating a potential upside of 4.62%. Agilent Technologies has a consensus price target of $136.50, indicating a potential upside of 2.65%. Given Thermo Fisher Scientific's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Thermo Fisher Scientific is more favorable than Agilent Technologies.
Thermo Fisher Scientific received 200 more outperform votes than Agilent Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 81.14% of users gave Thermo Fisher Scientific an outperform vote while only 71.64% of users gave Agilent Technologies an outperform vote.
89.2% of Thermo Fisher Scientific shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Thermo Fisher Scientific shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Thermo Fisher Scientific has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Agilent Technologies has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Thermo Fisher Scientific pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Agilent Technologies pays an annual dividend of $0.94 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Thermo Fisher Scientific pays out 10.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Agilent Technologies pays out 22.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Summary
Thermo Fisher Scientific beats Agilent Technologies on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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