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$52.99 +1.47 (+2.85%)
Closing price 09/18/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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TECH vs. BRKR, A, CRL, DHR, IQV, MTD, RVTY, TMO, WAT, and ILMN

Should you be buying Bio-Techne stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bio-Techne include Bruker (BRKR), Agilent Technologies (A), Charles River Laboratories International (CRL), Danaher (DHR), IQVIA (IQV), Mettler-Toledo International (MTD), Revvity (RVTY), Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO), Waters (WAT), and Illumina (ILMN).

Bio-Techne vs. Its Competitors

Bruker (NASDAQ:BRKR) and Bio-Techne (NASDAQ:TECH) are both mid-cap life sciences tools & services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Bruker presently has a consensus price target of $51.30, indicating a potential upside of 54.19%. Bio-Techne has a consensus price target of $70.42, indicating a potential upside of 32.89%. Given Bruker's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Bruker is more favorable than Bio-Techne.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Bruker
0 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.45
Bio-Techne
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.77

Bruker pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Bio-Techne pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Bruker pays out 38.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bio-Techne pays out 69.6% 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.

In the previous week, Bio-Techne had 3 more articles in the media than Bruker. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Bio-Techne and 9 mentions for Bruker. Bio-Techne's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Bruker's score of 0.96 indicating that Bio-Techne is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Bruker
6 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Bio-Techne
9 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

79.5% of Bruker shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.0% of Bio-Techne shares are owned by institutional investors. 27.3% of Bruker shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.9% of Bio-Techne shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Bruker has higher revenue and earnings than Bio-Techne. Bruker is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bio-Techne, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Bruker$3.37B1.50$113.10M$0.5263.98
Bio-Techne$1.22B6.81$73.40M$0.46115.20

Bio-Techne has a net margin of 6.02% compared to Bruker's net margin of 2.31%. Bruker's return on equity of 17.89% beat Bio-Techne's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Bruker2.31% 17.89% 5.38%
Bio-Techne 6.02%13.43%10.32%

Bruker has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bio-Techne has a beta of 1.47, indicating that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Bio-Techne beats Bruker on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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TECH vs. The Competition

MetricBio-TechneMED IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$8.08B$3.12B$5.77B$10.28B
Dividend Yield0.62%2.37%5.74%4.64%
P/E Ratio115.2021.2276.8626.97
Price / Sales6.81472.24544.13128.91
Price / Cash21.0745.3237.1760.63
Price / Book4.339.6913.836.37
Net Income$73.40M-$52.92M$3.29B$271.46M
7 Day Performance3.37%2.19%1.57%2.53%
1 Month Performance-3.43%8.96%6.86%9.42%
1 Year Performance-34.06%10.84%81.58%30.16%

Bio-Techne Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
TECH
Bio-Techne
4.9858 of 5 stars
$52.99
+2.9%
$70.42
+32.9%
-30.7%$8.08B$1.22B115.203,100Positive News
BRKR
Bruker
4.9795 of 5 stars
$30.80
-0.1%
$51.30
+66.6%
-50.2%$4.68B$3.37B59.2311,396Positive News
Short Interest ↑
A
Agilent Technologies
4.533 of 5 stars
$128.13
-0.5%
$139.25
+8.7%
-8.2%$36.50B$6.51B30.0817,900Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
CRL
Charles River Laboratories International
4.5458 of 5 stars
$161.97
-1.2%
$175.69
+8.5%
-23.7%$8.07B$4.05B-121.7820,100Positive News
DHR
Danaher
4.9901 of 5 stars
$198.74
-0.7%
$246.35
+24.0%
-28.2%$143.36B$23.88B42.2963,000Positive News
IQV
IQVIA
4.9335 of 5 stars
$187.72
+0.0%
$229.86
+22.4%
-21.6%$31.91B$15.41B27.1788,000Positive News
MTD
Mettler-Toledo International
4.1143 of 5 stars
$1,314.38
+0.7%
$1,311.11
-0.2%
-8.1%$26.90B$3.87B33.2817,300Positive News
RVTY
Revvity
3.9663 of 5 stars
$86.30
-0.4%
$120.07
+39.1%
-29.5%$10.06B$2.76B17.7211,000Analyst Revision
TMO
Thermo Fisher Scientific
4.9668 of 5 stars
$487.11
-1.1%
$589.38
+21.0%
-21.2%$186.01B$42.88B28.17125,000Positive News
Ex-Dividend
WAT
Waters
4.7347 of 5 stars
$309.58
+1.1%
$378.73
+22.3%
-7.9%$18.23B$2.96B27.927,600
ILMN
Illumina
4.7396 of 5 stars
$98.18
-0.8%
$123.06
+25.3%
-21.3%$15.21B$4.37B12.439,030Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:TECH) was last updated on 9/19/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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