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AVTR vs. A, DHR, IQV, TMO, KEYS, VLTO, FTV, TER, RVTY, and NVMI

Should you be buying Avantor stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Avantor include Agilent Technologies (A), Danaher (DHR), IQVIA (IQV), Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO), Keysight Technologies (KEYS), Veralto (VLTO), Fortive (FTV), Teradyne (TER), Revvity (RVTY), and Nova (NVMI).

Avantor vs. Its Competitors

Avantor (NYSE:AVTR) and Agilent Technologies (NYSE:A) are both medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, valuation and earnings.

Agilent Technologies has a net margin of 17.59% compared to Avantor's net margin of 10.70%. Agilent Technologies' return on equity of 25.92% beat Avantor's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Avantor10.70% 11.93% 5.50%
Agilent Technologies 17.59%25.92%13.24%

Avantor presently has a consensus target price of $18.23, indicating a potential upside of 33.47%. Agilent Technologies has a consensus target price of $139.77, indicating a potential upside of 19.35%. Given Avantor's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Avantor is more favorable than Agilent Technologies.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Avantor
0 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.42
Agilent Technologies
0 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.54

95.1% of Avantor shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Avantor shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Agilent Technologies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Avantor. Avantor is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Agilent Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Avantor$6.78B1.37$711.50M$1.0413.13
Agilent Technologies$6.51B5.11$1.29B$4.0528.92

Avantor has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Agilent Technologies has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Agilent Technologies had 2 more articles in the media than Avantor. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Agilent Technologies and 16 mentions for Avantor. Avantor's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Agilent Technologies' score of 0.98 indicating that Avantor is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Avantor
12 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Agilent Technologies
10 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Agilent Technologies beats Avantor on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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AVTR vs. The Competition

MetricAvantorMedical Services IndustryMedical SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$9.26B$7.33B$5.66B$20.95B
Dividend YieldN/A2.83%4.71%3.61%
P/E Ratio13.0768.5130.2128.76
Price / Sales1.3733.89448.2056.32
Price / Cash8.7126.8836.0123.15
Price / Book1.568.888.344.51
Net Income$711.50M$243.10M$3.25B$993.26M
7 Day Performance-2.50%-3.38%-2.18%-1.79%
1 Month Performance1.31%1.36%7.93%2.02%
1 Year Performance-48.95%12.32%36.45%7.31%

Avantor Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AVTR
Avantor
4.7371 of 5 stars
$13.66
-1.0%
$18.23
+33.5%
-50.0%$9.26B$6.78B13.0713,500News Coverage
Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
A
Agilent Technologies
4.8819 of 5 stars
$112.12
-1.6%
$139.77
+24.7%
-15.3%$31.85B$6.51B27.6817,900News Coverage
DHR
Danaher
4.8014 of 5 stars
$188.23
-1.0%
$248.48
+32.0%
-25.8%$134.71B$23.88B36.5563,000Positive News
IQV
IQVIA
4.8069 of 5 stars
$159.06
-1.0%
$222.45
+39.9%
-22.0%$27.52B$15.41B21.6788,000Analyst Revision
TMO
Thermo Fisher Scientific
4.9651 of 5 stars
$405.15
-2.3%
$599.30
+47.9%
-22.4%$152.94B$42.88B23.76125,000Insider Trade
Analyst Revision
KEYS
Keysight Technologies
4.1091 of 5 stars
$162.86
+0.2%
$186.11
+14.3%
+23.3%$28.03B$4.98B38.2315,500
VLTO
Veralto
3.3368 of 5 stars
$102.19
-1.1%
$111.18
+8.8%
-1.3%$25.33B$5.19B29.2017,000Positive News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
FTV
Fortive
4.9584 of 5 stars
$50.07
-0.9%
$69.92
+39.6%
-30.2%$17.02B$6.23B21.9618,000Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
TER
Teradyne
4.3469 of 5 stars
$94.82
+1.0%
$112.50
+18.6%
-11.3%$15.21B$2.82B26.796,500Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Upgrade
Options Volume
Gap Up
RVTY
Revvity
2.8312 of 5 stars
$90.90
-2.5%
$123.07
+35.4%
-28.6%$10.71B$2.76B38.6811,000Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
NVMI
Nova
1.2022 of 5 stars
$284.92
+2.4%
$282.50
-0.8%
+38.6%$8.38B$672.40M43.044,149Positive News
Upcoming Earnings

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This page (NYSE:AVTR) was last updated on 7/31/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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