Compare · GRMN vs TMO
GRMN vs TMO
Side-by-side comparison of Garmin Ltd. (GRMN) and Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc (TMO): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- Both GRMN and TMO operate in Industrial Machinery/Components (Industrials), so they compete in similar markets.
- TMO is the larger of the two at $197.88B, about 8.5x GRMN ($23.32B).
- Over the past year, GRMN is up 9.6% and TMO is up 28.1% - TMO leads by 18.5 points.
- TMO has been more active in the news (9 items in the past 4 weeks vs 6 for GRMN).
- TMO has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 17 for GRMN).
- Company
- Garmin Ltd.
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc
- Price
- $249.72-0.51%
- $532.16-2.05%
- Market cap
- $23.32B
- $197.88B
- 1M return
- +6.07%
- +12.59%
- 1Y return
- +9.57%
- +28.12%
- Industry
- Industrial Machinery/Components
- Industrial Machinery/Components
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- NYSE
- IPO
- 2000
- News (4w)
- 6
- 9
- Recent ratings
- 17
- 25
Garmin Ltd.
Garmin Ltd. designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and distributes a range of navigation, communication, and information devices in the Americas, the Asia Pacific, Australian Continent, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Its Fitness segment offers running and multi-sport watches; cycling products; activity tracking and smartwatch devices; and fitness and cycling accessories. This segment also provides Garmin Connect and Garmin Connect Mobile, which are web and mobile platforms; and Connect IQ, an application development platform. The company's Outdoor segment offers adventure watches, outdoor handhelds, golf devices, and dog tracking and training devices. Its Aviation segment designs, manufactures, and markets various aircraft avionics solutions comprising integrated flight decks, electronic flight displays and instrumentation, navigation and communication products, automatic flight control systems and safety-enhancing technologies, audio control systems, engine indication systems, traffic awareness and avoidance solutions, ADS-B and transponder solutions, weather information and avoidance solutions, datalink and connectivity solutions, portable GPS navigators and wearables, and various services products. The company's Marine segment provides chartplotters and multi-function displays, cartography products, fish finders, sonar products, autopilot systems, radars, compliant instrument displays and sensors, VHF communication radios, handhelds and wearable devices, sailing products, entertainment, digital switching products, and trolling motors. Its Auto segment offers embedded computing models and infotainment systems; personal navigation devices; and cameras. The company sells its products through independent retailers, online retailers, dealers, distributors, installation and repair shops, and original equipment manufacturers, as well as an online webshop, garmin.com. Garmin Ltd. was founded in 1989 and is based in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.
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 GRMN
- Garmin unveils G2000 PRIME Integrated Flight Deck
- Garmin unveils AXIS, a new generation of highly integrated flight displays
- Garmin launches LiveScope 2, its clearest live sonar yet
- Garmin Pilot update introduces new Flights page and other enhancements
- SEC Form 11-K filed by Garmin Ltd.
- Garmin Ltd. schedules second quarter 2026 earnings call
- Executive Chairman Kao Min H gifted 11,005 units of Registered Shares (SEC Form 4)
- Director Burrell Jonathan gifted 322,000 units of Registered Shares and received a gift of 322,000 units of Registered Shares (SEC Form 4)
- Amendment: Director Hartnett Joseph J sold $151,806 worth of Registered Shares (643 units at $236.09), decreasing direct ownership by 3% to 21,277 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Ball Susan M. was granted 753 units of Registered Shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 215 units of Registered Shares, increasing direct ownership by 29% to 2,388 units (SEC Form 4)
Latest TMO
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Announces Quarterly Dividend
- Thermo Fisher Scientific to Hold Earnings Conference Call on Thursday, July 23, 2026
- SEC Form 4 filed by Director Sperling Scott M
- SEC Form 4 filed by Director Keith R. Alexandra
- SEC Form 4 filed by Director Weisler Dion J
- SEC Form 4 filed by Director Lynch Karen S
- SEC Form 4 filed by Director Johnson Jennifer M
- Bernstein resumed coverage on Thermo Fisher with a new price target
- SEC Form 11-K filed by Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc
- Piper Sandler initiated coverage on Thermo Fisher with a new price target