BRKR vs. BIO, AVTR, WAT, TXG, QTRX, PACB, AXDX, MTD, A, and JNPR
Should you be buying Bruker stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bruker include Bio-Rad Laboratories (BIO), Avantor (AVTR), Waters (WAT), 10x Genomics (TXG), Quanterix (QTRX), Pacific Biosciences of California (PACB), Accelerate Diagnostics (AXDX), Mettler-Toledo International (MTD), Agilent Technologies (A), and Juniper Networks (JNPR).
Bio-Rad Laboratories (NYSE:BIO) and Bruker (NASDAQ:BRKR) are both medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, risk, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and valuation.
Bruker has higher revenue and earnings than Bio-Rad Laboratories. Bio-Rad Laboratories is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bruker, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bio-Rad Laboratories has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bruker has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
65.2% of Bio-Rad Laboratories shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.5% of Bruker shares are held by institutional investors. 17.1% of Bio-Rad Laboratories shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 28.3% of Bruker shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Bruker had 15 more articles in the media than Bio-Rad Laboratories. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Bruker and 8 mentions for Bio-Rad Laboratories. Bio-Rad Laboratories' average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Bruker's score of 0.47 indicating that Bruker is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bio-Rad Laboratories presently has a consensus price target of $468.00, indicating a potential upside of 67.24%. Bruker has a consensus price target of $84.86, indicating a potential upside of 21.15%. Given Bruker's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Bio-Rad Laboratories is more favorable than Bruker.
Bruker has a net margin of 14.41% compared to Bruker's net margin of -23.86%. Bio-Rad Laboratories' return on equity of 29.94% beat Bruker's return on equity.
Bruker received 305 more outperform votes than Bio-Rad Laboratories when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.93% of users gave Bio-Rad Laboratories an outperform vote while only 64.91% of users gave Bruker an outperform vote.
Summary
Bruker beats Bio-Rad Laboratories on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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