Bio-Rad Laboratories is a medical devices business based in the US. Bio-Rad Laboratories shares (BIO.US) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US dollars. Its last market close was $275.94 – an increase of 0.12% over the previous day. Bio-Rad Laboratories employs 8,030 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $2.7 billion.
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Share price volatility
Over the last 12 months, Bio-Rad Laboratories's shares have ranged in value from as little as $261.59 up to $473.5. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Bio-Rad Laboratories's is 0.88. This would suggest that Bio-Rad Laboratories's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
Historical closes compared with the last close of $275.94
1 week (2024-04-18)
-1.35%
1 month (2024-03-27)
-20.22%
3 months (2024-01-25)
-16.14%
6 months (2023-10-26)
1.94%
1 year (2023-04-27)
-38.79%
2 years (2022-04-25)
-44.09%
3 years (2021-04-27)
-57.48%
5 years (2019-04-25)
-8.57%
The gauge below shows real-time ratings that are based on 26 popular indicators such as moving averages, for specific time periods. It's not a recommendation but is simply technical analysis that can form part of your research.
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Is Bio-Rad Laboratories under- or over-valued?
Valuing a stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge value. Check out the Bio-Rad Laboratories P/E ratio, PEG ratio and EBITDA
Bio-Rad Laboratories's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.1905. A PEG ratio close to 1 can be interpreted as meaning shares offer reasonable value for the current rate of growth.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Bio-Rad Laboratories's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the stock prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Bio-Rad Laboratories's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $511.6 million ($0.0 million CAD).
The EBITDA is a measure of a Bio-Rad Laboratories's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
Frequently asked questions
We're not expecting Bio-Rad Laboratories to pay a dividend over the next 12 months. However, you can browse other dividend-paying shares in our guide.
Currently 15.238% of Bio-Rad Laboratories shares are held by insiders and 83.481% by institutions.
Bio-Rad Laboratories's fiscal year ends in December.
Bio-Rad Laboratories's address is: 1000 Alfred Nobel Drive, Hercules, CA, United States, 94547
Bio-Rad Laboratories's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 7 March 2002. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Bio-Rad Laboratories shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Bio-Rad Laboratories shares which in turn could have impacted Bio-Rad Laboratories's share price.
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Bio-Rad Laboratories financials
Revenue TTM
$2.7 billion
Operating margin TTM
14.24%
Gross profit TTM
$1.6 billion
Return on assets TTM
1.77%
Return on equity TTM
-6.94%
Profit margin
-23.86%
Book value
$306.51
Market capitalisation
$7.9 billion
TTM: trailing 12 months
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