Thinking of Investing in TECH? What Our Analysts Know.

By Blake Campbell • Monday, December 18 11:18 • Permanent Link

Bio-Techne logged a -0.5% change during today's morning session, and is now trading at a price of $75.6 per share. The S&P 500 index moved 1.0%. TECH's trading volume is 182,225 compared to the stock's average volume of 1,212,785.

Bio-Techne trades -2.77% away from its average analyst target price of $77.75 per share. The 12 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $65.0 to $95.0, and on average have given Bio-Techne a rating of buy.

If you are considering an investment in TECH, you'll want to know the following:

Bio-Techne's current price is 238.1% above its Graham number of $22.36, which implies that at its current valuation it does not offer a margin of safety
Bio-Techne has moved -5.9% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 23.6%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 1.52, Bio-Techne has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 49.7 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
TECH has a forward P/E ratio of 34.8 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $2.17 per share
The company has a price to earnings growth (PEG) ratio of 4.2 — a number near or below 1 signifying that Bio-Techne is fairly valued compared to its estimated growth potential
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 5.99 compared to its sector average of 4.08
Bio-Techne Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and sells life science reagents, instruments, and services for the research and clinical diagnostic markets in the United States, the United Kingdom, rest of Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Greater China, rest of Asia-Pacific, and internationally.
Based in Minneapolis, the company has 3,200 full time employees and a market cap of $11.96 Billion. Bio-Techne currently returns an annual dividend yield of 0.4%.

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