BIO.B vs. BIO, RVTY, TXG, OLK, AVTR, ILMN, WAT, ASND, PEN, and CERE
Should you be buying Bio-Rad Laboratories stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bio-Rad Laboratories include Bio-Rad Laboratories (BIO), Revvity (RVTY), 10x Genomics (TXG), Olink Holding AB (publ) (OLK), Avantor (AVTR), Illumina (ILMN), Waters (WAT), Ascendis Pharma A/S (ASND), Penumbra (PEN), and Cerevel Therapeutics (CERE). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Bio-Rad Laboratories (NYSE:BIO) and Bio-Rad Laboratories (NYSE:BIO.B) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Bio-Rad Laboratories received 237 more outperform votes than Bio-Rad Laboratories when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.87% of users gave Bio-Rad Laboratories an outperform vote while only 57.60% of users gave Bio-Rad Laboratories an outperform vote.
65.2% of Bio-Rad Laboratories shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.0% of Bio-Rad Laboratories shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.5% of Bio-Rad Laboratories shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 28.4% of Bio-Rad Laboratories shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Bio-Rad Laboratories currently has a consensus price target of $461.00, indicating a potential upside of 54.43%. Given Bio-Rad Laboratories' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Bio-Rad Laboratories is more favorable than Bio-Rad Laboratories.
Bio-Rad Laboratories is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bio-Rad Laboratories, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bio-Rad Laboratories has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bio-Rad Laboratories has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Bio-Rad Laboratories had 8 more articles in the media than Bio-Rad Laboratories. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Bio-Rad Laboratories and 1 mentions for Bio-Rad Laboratories. Bio-Rad Laboratories' average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Bio-Rad Laboratories' score of 0.36 indicating that Bio-Rad Laboratories is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Bio-Rad Laboratories beats Bio-Rad Laboratories on 8 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
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