TMO vs. A, MTD, WAT, ILMN, TECH, BIO, CRL, BRKR, PACB, and HBIO
Should you be buying Thermo Fisher Scientific stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Thermo Fisher Scientific include Agilent Technologies (A), Mettler-Toledo International (MTD), Waters (WAT), Illumina (ILMN), Bio-Techne (TECH), Bio-Rad Laboratories (BIO), Charles River Laboratories International (CRL), Bruker (BRKR), Pacific Biosciences of California (PACB), and Harvard Bioscience (HBIO). These companies are all part of the "life sciences tools & services" industry.
Thermo Fisher Scientific vs.
Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE:TMO) and Agilent Technologies (NYSE:A) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk and institutional ownership.
Thermo Fisher Scientific pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Agilent Technologies pays an annual dividend of $0.99 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Thermo Fisher Scientific pays out 9.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Agilent Technologies pays out 22.4% 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.
Thermo Fisher Scientific has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Agilent Technologies has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Thermo Fisher Scientific currently has a consensus target price of $648.95, indicating a potential upside of 15.94%. Agilent Technologies has a consensus target price of $143.62, indicating a potential downside of 2.68%. Given Thermo Fisher Scientific's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Thermo Fisher Scientific is more favorable than Agilent Technologies.
Thermo Fisher Scientific received 215 more outperform votes than Agilent Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 81.01% of users gave Thermo Fisher Scientific an outperform vote while only 71.11% of users gave Agilent Technologies an outperform vote.
89.2% of Thermo Fisher Scientific shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Thermo Fisher Scientific shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Thermo Fisher Scientific has higher revenue and earnings than Agilent Technologies. Agilent Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Thermo Fisher Scientific, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Thermo Fisher Scientific had 38 more articles in the media than Agilent Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 51 mentions for Thermo Fisher Scientific and 13 mentions for Agilent Technologies. Thermo Fisher Scientific's average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat Agilent Technologies' score of 1.13 indicating that Thermo Fisher Scientific is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Agilent Technologies has a net margin of 19.80% compared to Thermo Fisher Scientific's net margin of 14.48%. Agilent Technologies' return on equity of 25.43% beat Thermo Fisher Scientific's return on equity.
Summary
Thermo Fisher Scientific beats Agilent Technologies on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:TMO) was last updated on 1/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
