TMO vs. A, MTD, WAT, ILMN, TECH, CRL, BRKR, BIO, 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), Charles River Laboratories International (CRL), Bruker (BRKR), Bio-Rad Laboratories (BIO), Pacific Biosciences of California (PACB), and Harvard Bioscience (HBIO). These companies are all part of the "life sciences tools & services" industry.
Agilent Technologies (NYSE:A) and Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE:TMO) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, risk, media sentiment and valuation.
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.
Agilent Technologies presently has a consensus price target of $137.19, indicating a potential upside of 5.20%. Thermo Fisher Scientific has a consensus price target of $605.31, indicating a potential upside of 6.57%. Given Agilent Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Thermo Fisher Scientific is more favorable than Agilent Technologies.
In the previous week, Agilent Technologies had 32 more articles in the media than Thermo Fisher Scientific. MarketBeat recorded 43 mentions for Agilent Technologies and 11 mentions for Thermo Fisher Scientific. Agilent Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat Thermo Fisher Scientific's score of 0.32 indicating that Thermo Fisher Scientific is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Agilent Technologies has a net margin of 18.84% compared to Agilent Technologies' net margin of 14.20%. Thermo Fisher Scientific's return on equity of 26.25% beat Agilent Technologies' return on equity.
89.2% of Thermo Fisher Scientific shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Thermo Fisher Scientific shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Agilent Technologies pays an annual dividend of $0.94 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Thermo Fisher Scientific pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Agilent Technologies pays out 22.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Thermo Fisher Scientific pays out 10.0% 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. Agilent Technologies has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Thermo Fisher Scientific has increased its dividend for 7 consecutive years.
Thermo Fisher Scientific received 199 more outperform votes than Agilent Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 81.12% of users gave Thermo Fisher Scientific an outperform vote while only 71.70% of users gave Agilent Technologies an outperform vote.
Agilent Technologies has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Thermo Fisher Scientific has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Thermo Fisher Scientific beats Agilent Technologies on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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