BIO.B vs. MTD, WAT, AVTR, ILMN, RVTY, BRKR, BIO, OLK, TXG, and LAB
Should you be buying Bio-Rad Laboratories stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bio-Rad Laboratories include Mettler-Toledo International (MTD), Waters (WAT), Avantor (AVTR), Illumina (ILMN), Revvity (RVTY), Bruker (BRKR), Bio-Rad Laboratories (BIO), Olink Holding AB (publ) (OLK), 10x Genomics (TXG), and Standard BioTools (LAB). These companies are all part of the "analytical instruments" industry.
Bio-Rad Laboratories (NYSE:BIO.B) and Mettler-Toledo International (NYSE:MTD) are both medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, dividends, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, profitability and analyst recommendations.
0.0% of Bio-Rad Laboratories shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.1% of Mettler-Toledo International shares are held by institutional investors. 28.4% of Bio-Rad Laboratories shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Mettler-Toledo International shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Mettler-Toledo International has a consensus target price of $1,256.25, suggesting a potential downside of 12.67%. Given Mettler-Toledo International's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Mettler-Toledo International is more favorable than Bio-Rad Laboratories.
Mettler-Toledo International received 241 more outperform votes than Bio-Rad Laboratories when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.60% of users gave Bio-Rad Laboratories an outperform vote while only 57.37% of users gave Mettler-Toledo International an outperform vote.
Mettler-Toledo International has higher revenue and earnings than Bio-Rad Laboratories. Bio-Rad Laboratories is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mettler-Toledo International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Mettler-Toledo International has a net margin of 20.55% compared to Bio-Rad Laboratories' net margin of -12.37%. Bio-Rad Laboratories' return on equity of 3.59% beat Mettler-Toledo International's return on equity.
In the previous week, Mettler-Toledo International had 14 more articles in the media than Bio-Rad Laboratories. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Mettler-Toledo International and 1 mentions for Bio-Rad Laboratories. Mettler-Toledo International's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Bio-Rad Laboratories' score of 0.59 indicating that Mettler-Toledo International is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bio-Rad Laboratories has a beta of 0.71, indicating that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mettler-Toledo International has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Mettler-Toledo International beats Bio-Rad Laboratories on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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