Compare · BRKR vs TMO
BRKR vs TMO
Side-by-side comparison of Bruker Corporation (BRKR) and Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc (TMO): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- Both companies sit in the Industrials sector. BRKR focuses on Biotechnology: Laboratory Analytical Instruments, while TMO focuses on Industrial Machinery/Components.
- TMO is the larger of the two at $239.76B, about 25.9x BRKR ($9.24B).
- Over the past year, BRKR is up 82.5% and TMO is up 34.9% - BRKR leads by 47.6 points.
- TMO has been more active in the news (13 items in the past 4 weeks vs 4 for BRKR).
- TMO has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 23 for BRKR).
- Company
- Bruker Corporation
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc
- Price
- $60.67+8.83%
- $648.49+1.08%
- Market cap
- $9.24B
- $239.76B
- 1M return
- +5.14%
- +10.76%
- 1Y return
- +82.47%
- +34.87%
- Industry
- Biotechnology: Laboratory Analytical Instruments
- Industrial Machinery/Components
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- NYSE
- IPO
- News (4w)
- 4
- 13
- Recent ratings
- 23
- 25
Bruker Corporation
Bruker Corporation develops, manufactures, and distributes scientific instruments, and analytical and diagnostic solutions in the United States, Europe, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Bruker Scientific Instruments (BSI) Life Science, BSI NANO, and Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies. It offers life science tools based on magnetic resonance technology; life science mass spectrometry and ion mobility spectrometry solutions; analytical and process analysis instruments and solutions based on infrared and Raman molecular spectroscopy technologies; and radiological/nuclear detectors for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive detection. The company also provides X-ray instruments, atomic force microscopy instrumentation, fluorescence optical microscopy instruments, analytical tools for electron microscopes and X-ray metrology, defect-detection equipment for semiconductor process control, and spark optical emission spectroscopy systems, as well as handheld, portable, and mobile X-ray fluorescence spectrometry instruments. In addition, it offers superconducting and non-superconducting materials and devices. The company serves academic and government research customers; pharmaceutical and biotechnology, diagnostics, chemical, food and beverage, clinical, nanotechnology, semiconductor, and other industrial companies; nonprofit laboratories; academic institutions and medical schools; contract research organizations; nonprofit and for-profit forensics, and environmental and clinical microbiology laboratories; agriculture, food, and beverage safety laboratories; hospitals and government departments; agencies; raw material manufacturers; and other businesses involved in materials analysis through direct sales forces, distributors, independent sales representatives, and other representatives. Bruker Corporation was incorporated in 1991 and is headquartered in Billerica, Massachusetts.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. offers life sciences solutions, analytical instruments, specialty diagnostics, and laboratory products and service worldwide. The company's Life Sciences Solutions segment offers reagents, instruments, and consumables for biological and medical research, discovery, and production of drugs and vaccines, as well as diagnosis of infections and diseases to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, agricultural, clinical, healthcare, academic, and government markets. Its Analytical Instruments segment provides instruments, consumables, software, and services for use in laboratory, on production line, and in field for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, academic, government, environmental, and other research and industrial markets, as well as clinical laboratories. The company's Specialty Diagnostics segment offers liquid, ready-to-use, and lyophilized immunodiagnostic reagent kits, as well as calibrators, controls, and calibration verification fluids; ImmunoCAP for allergy and asthma tests, and EliA for autoimmunity tests; dehydrated and prepared culture media, collection and transport systems, instrumentation, and consumables; human leukocyte antigen typing and testing for organ transplant market; and healthcare products. Its Laboratory Products and Services segment provides laboratory refrigerators and freezers, ultralow-temperature freezers, and cryopreservation storage tanks; temperature control, sample preparation and preservation, centrifugation, and biological safety cabinet products; water analysis instruments; laboratory plastics products; laboratory chemicals; and pharma services. The company offers products and services through a direct sales force, customer-service professionals, electronic commerce, third-party distributors, and catalogs. It has a strategic alliance with the University of California, San Francisco. The company was incorporated in 1956 and is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Latest BRKR
- EXEC VP&PRES BRUKER NANO INC. Munch Mark exercised 2,000 shares at a strike of $22.19 and sold $105,740 worth of shares (2,000 units at $52.87) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan (SEC Form 4)
- UBS initiated coverage on Bruker with a new price target
- Bruker Corporation to Present at Upcoming Investor Conferences
- BEST and Luvata Announce Collaboration Agreement for Supply of High-Performance RRP® Superconductors for Magnetic Confinement Fusion
- Chief Accounting Officer Bures Thomas was granted 4,035 shares, increasing direct ownership by 126% to 7,233 units (SEC Form 4)
- President BMID Group Pusch Wolfgang sold $197,614 worth of shares (3,473 units at $56.90) and was granted 3,120 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 3% to 9,801 units (SEC Form 4)
- EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, CFO Herman Gerald N was granted 15,794 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 2,724 shares, increasing direct ownership by 13% to 111,354 units (SEC Form 4) to cover taxes
- EXEC VP&PRES BRUKER NANO INC. Munch Mark exercised 2,000 shares at a strike of $22.19, sold $115,200 worth of shares (2,000 units at $57.60) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, was granted 14,443 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 2,984 shares, increasing direct ownership by 9% to 134,806 units (SEC Form 4) (for tax liability)
- PRESIDENT & CEO Laukien Frank H was granted 29,463 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 4,760 shares, increasing direct ownership by 0.06% to 38,507,043 units (SEC Form 4) to cover withholding tax
- PRESIDENT CALID Srega Juergen was granted 16,898 shares, increasing direct ownership by 11% to 174,625 units (SEC Form 4)
Latest TMO
- Thermo Fisher upgraded by UBS with a new price target
- CLSA initiated coverage on Thermo Fisher with a new price target
- Executive Vice President Shafer Michael D covered exercise/tax liability with 790 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 4% to 20,204 units (SEC Form 4)
- SVP and General Counsel Shropshire Thomas B Jr. covered exercise/tax liability with 49 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 0.81% to 6,008 units (SEC Form 4)
- Sr. VP and Chief HR Officer Britt Lisa P. covered exercise/tax liability with 394 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 3% to 14,391 units (SEC Form 4)
- Sr. Vice President & CFO Meyer James covered exercise/tax liability with 270 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 5% to 5,560 units (SEC Form 4)
- Chairman & CEO Casper Marc N covered exercise/tax liability with 1,257 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 1% to 122,669 units (SEC Form 4)
- VP & Chief Accounting Officer Holmes Joseph R. covered exercise/tax liability with 50 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 2% to 2,916 units (SEC Form 4)
- President & COO Pettiti Gianluca covered exercise/tax liability with 1,035 shares, sold $2,539,233 worth of shares (4,133 units at $614.38) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan and exercised 3,733 shares at a strike of $309.63, decreasing direct ownership by 6% to 23,216 units (SEC Form 4)
- Thermo Fisher Scientific to Present at the Morgan Stanley 24th Annual Global Healthcare Conference on September 15, 2026