Diagnostics & Research: Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. owns the largest revenue base; BillionToOne, Inc. has the fastest current growth.
The industry itself · before any single company
How has Diagnostics & Research moved against S&P 500?
The line below covers 5.2 years. Over the most recent two of them this industry is 26% ahead of S&P 500. Earnings across its companies grew 7% on average over the last four reported quarters — close to flat. It has been ahead of S&P 500 on a rolling three-month view for 9 weeks running.
BREAKING OUT · ahead 9w~Price up, without the fundamentals confirming29 of 33 companies ahead of S&P 500 by 5% or more over three months1 is 20% or more behind over a year while earnings grew 20% or more
Diagnostics & Research, equal-weighted, based at 200S&P 500, same base, same starttrailing 12-month earnings per share risingfalling
Strength anatomyBroadening down the ladderHow much of the industry is participating, how recently, and whether the movers score well.
Together29 of 33 stocks moving
Fresh7 crossed in the last 4 weeks
Backed by scoresmovers score +2 vs the industry average
Down the cap ladder — bar is now, tick is four weeks ago
Large6/7+3
Mid11/12+4
Small12/140
Participation is spreading downward — the mid and small companies added more this month than the large ones did.
Both lines start at 200 in the same week, so the distance between them is the whole story: the industry line is an equal-weighted index of its 33 companies. The bars underneath are trailing 12-month earnings per share, one bar per reported quarter, each member rebased to 100 at the start and the industry taking the median — so a price line pulling away from flat bars is a re-rating, not earnings. A bar turns red when that figure is lower than the quarter before. Rules are fixed and applied identically everywhere on this site: ahead by 5% or more over three months, or behind by 20% or more over a year while earnings grew 20% or more. Hover any point to read both values and the gap. This is a description of what the numbers did, not advice.
Sector relative strength · before individual stocks
Is Diagnostics & Research outperforming S&P 500?
Diagnostics & Research has outperformed S&P 500 by 41.4% over the last 52 weeks. Over 13 weeks the gap is a lead of 32.9%. 21 of 29 covered companies currently beat the S&P 500 on Mansfield relative strength, so leadership inside the sector is selective. Twist Bioscience Corporation is the strongest against the sector itself at +50.6%.
+32.9%Sector vs S&P 500 · 13 weeks
+41.4%Sector vs S&P 500 · 52 weeks
21/29Stocks leading S&P 500
9/29Stocks leading sector
Sector metric: — as of latest available · unclassified · direction unavailable.
The central tension: the companies with the most scale are not necessarily the companies creating the most change.
Start with scale. Then earnings trajectory. Then business quality. Only after those three agree should price leadership carry much weight.
Bottom line
Diagnostics & Research has outperformed S&P 500 by 41.4% over 52 weeks and 32.9% over 13 weeks. 21 of 29 covered companies beat the S&P 500 on Mansfield relative strength, while 9 of 29 beat the sector itself. Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. leads with revenue of $45,197 million, based on 25 of 30 comparable companies through Mar 2026.
Is the Diagnostics & Research sector outperforming S&P 500?
Diagnostics & Research has outperformed S&P 500 by 41.4% over 52 weeks and 32.9% over 13 weeks. 21 of 29 covered companies beat the S&P 500 on Mansfield relative strength, while 9 of 29 beat the sector itself.
Which Diagnostics & Research company is largest by revenue?
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. leads with revenue of $45,197 million, based on 25 of 30 comparable companies through Mar 2026.
Which Diagnostics & Research company is growing fastest?
BillionToOne, Inc. has the fastest current revenue growth at 99.4%, across 25 of 30 comparable companies.
Which Diagnostics & Research company has the strongest 4-Factor Sector Score?
Veracyte, Inc. ranks first at 67.9/100 with 72% evidence confidence. The score prioritizes research; it is not a buy recommendation.
Which Diagnostics & Research company reports the most CAPEX?
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. reports the largest latest CAPEX at $376 million, with 30 of 30 companies comparable.
Which Diagnostics & Research company has the least gross debt?
CareDx, Inc. has the lowest comparable gross debt at $18 million. Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has the highest at $43,161 million.
Which Diagnostics & Research company has the lowest comparable PEG?
ICON Public Limited Company has the lowest comparable Guarded PEG at 0.49, among 7 of 30 companies that pass the metric’s comparability rules.
How much history does this Diagnostics & Research comparison include?
The page compares up to 20 reported quarters per company for fundamentals, CAPEX, debt and valuation, ending Jun 2026. Missing observations remain blank rather than being estimated.
How is the 4-Factor Sector Score calculated?
The four visible contributions add directly: growth and earnings up to 35 points, capital efficiency up to 25, valuation up to 20, and relative strength up to 20. Missing or stale evidence moves only the affected contribution toward neutral.
Companies
30
complete canonical membership
Combined market value
$784.9B
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
Revenue growing
22/25
positive TTM year-on-year growth
Beating S&P 500
21/29
positive Mansfield relative strength
Global company selection
00 · research priority, made explicit
4-Factor Sector Score
An additive sector-relative research score. The four displayed point contributions always equal the total: Growth & earnings (35), Capital efficiency (25), Valuation (20), and Relative strength (20). Missing or stale evidence is absorbed inside the affected factor, never applied as a hidden adjustment.
Veracyte, Inc. has the strongest current balance of earnings trajectory, business quality, valuation and price confirmation, with 72% evidence confidence.
ICON Public Limited Company looks inexpensive relative to peers or its own history, but its earnings trajectory has not yet earned the valuation signal.
Twist Bioscience Corporation has stronger price confirmation than earnings confirmation; that is a research prompt, not permission to chase.
Missing observations are not scored as bad. Their missing weight lowers confidence and pulls the final score toward neutral. PEG is guarded: positive earnings, positive 5–60% three-year EPS growth, and a positive P/E are required.
Decision use: Fill the missing evidence before acting; the ranking is deliberately pulled toward neutral.
26.0/35Growth & earnings
Revenue 99.4% · PAT — · OPM change 20.4 pp
62% evidence
14.4/25Capital efficiency
ROCE 3.9% · debt/equity 0.28×
80% evidence
9.0/20Valuation
P/E 60.9× · PEG —
15% evidence
10.0/20Relative strength
RS sector — · RS bench — · 1Y —
0% evidence
01 · compare level, then change
Revenue Scale & Growth Durability
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has the highest Revenue among the 30 Diagnostics & Research companies compared here, at $45,197 million. IQVIA Holdings Inc. is next at $16,632 million. BillionToOne, Inc. has the highest Revenue growth at 99.4%, so level and change sit with different companies. 25 of 30 companies report a comparable reading, the latest through Mar 2026.
What the numbers say: Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the scale leader at $45,197 million, 171.7% ahead of IQVIA Holdings Inc.. BillionToOne, Inc.'s growth is 99.4% from a $355 million base, with 9 reported observations in the 20-quarter window. Treat the growth leader as an acceleration candidate, not as equally proven scale.
LeaderThermo Fisher Scientific Inc. · $45,197 million
Gap171.7% versus #2 · IQVIA Holdings Inc.
Persistence6/8 recent comparable periods
Coverage25/30 companies · 548 observations
Investor read: Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the scale benchmark; BillionToOne, Inc. is the acceleration watch. Promote the challenger only if growth persists and converts into margin and returns.
This conclusion weakens if: Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.'s growth falls below BillionToOne, Inc.'s for two consecutive comparable reports while operating margin also compresses.
Revenue is compared on a common reported-currency basis. Growth is year-on-year, so seasonality does not masquerade as progress.
Revenuelargest
1Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. TMO$45.2B
2IQVIA Holdings Inc. IQV$16.6B
3Labcorp Holdings Inc. LH$14.1B
4ICON Public Limited Company ICLR$8.3B
5Agilent Technologies, Inc. A$7.2B
Revenue growthfastest growers
1BillionToOne, Inc. BLLN99%
2Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation ADPT58%
3Guardant Health, Inc. GH40%
4Natera, Inc. NTRA37%
5GeneDx Holdings Corp. WGS34%
Revenue · company comparison
25/30 level · 25/30 change
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All-company data · latest reported quarter
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IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. has the highest OPM among the 30 Diagnostics & Research companies compared here, at 31.8%. Sotera Health Company is next at 27.1%. GRAIL, Inc. has the highest Margin change at +149.6 percentage points, so level and change sit with different companies. 30 of 30 companies report a comparable reading, the latest through Mar 2026.
What the numbers say: IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. leads opm at 31.8%; GRAIL, Inc. leads margin change at +149.6 percentage points.
LeaderIDEXX Laboratories, Inc. · 31.8%
Gap17.3% versus #2 · Sotera Health Company
Persistence7/8 recent comparable periods
Coverage30/30 companies · 545 observations
Investor read: IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. sets the level benchmark; use the change leader as an inflection watch only after another comparable report confirms it.
This conclusion weakens if: The next two comparable reports reverse the current margin change signal.
Operating margin compares operating profit with revenue. Improvement is measured in percentage points, not percentage growth.
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All-company data · latest reported quarter
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has the highest Net profit among the 30 Diagnostics & Research companies compared here, at $6,900 million. Agilent Technologies, Inc. is next at $1,414 million. Qiagen N.V. has the highest Profit growth at the 100% top of the scoring scale, so level and change sit with different companies.
What the numbers say: Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. leads with $6,900 million of TTM profit, 388% above Agilent Technologies, Inc.. Qiagen N.V. shows ≥100% on the scoring scale (327.7% uncapped) growth from a $402 million profit base. Compare the size of the base and persistence before ranking acceleration above profit scale.
LeaderThermo Fisher Scientific Inc. · $6,900 million
Gap388% versus #2 · Agilent Technologies, Inc.
Persistence6/8 recent comparable periods
Coverage25/30 companies · 548 observations
Investor read: Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. sets the level benchmark; use the change leader as an inflection watch only after another comparable report confirms it.
This conclusion weakens if: The next two comparable reports reverse the current profit growth signal.
Net profit is the residual after operating costs, interest and tax. Growth off a loss or near-zero base is excluded from the fastest-grower rank.
Net profitlargest
1Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. TMO$6.9B
2Agilent Technologies, Inc. A$1.4B
3IQVIA Holdings Inc. IQV$1.3B
4IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. IDXX$1.1B
5Labcorp Holdings Inc. LH$943M
Profit growthfastest growers
1Qiagen N.V. QGEN100%
2Veracyte, Inc. VCYT100%
3Labcorp Holdings Inc. LH29%
4IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. IDXX22%
5Agilent Technologies, Inc. A21%
Net profit · company comparison
25/30 level · 9/30 change
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All-company data · latest reported quarter
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has the highest CAPEX among the 30 Diagnostics & Research companies compared here, at $376 million. Danaher Corporation is next at $269 million. Personalis, Inc. has the highest CAPEX intensity at 20%, so level and change sit with different companies. 30 of 30 companies report a comparable reading, the latest through Mar 2026.
What the numbers say: Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. reports $376 million of CAPEX; Personalis, Inc. has the highest covered intensity at 20%. Coverage is only 30 of 30 companies and 542 reported observations, so this is partial evidence—not a complete sector rank.
LeaderThermo Fisher Scientific Inc. · $376 million
Gap39.8% versus #2 · Danaher Corporation
Persistence8/8 recent comparable periods
Coverage30/30 companies · 542 observations
Investor read: Use the CAPEX rank as a diligence queue. Verify commissioning, utilization, cash conversion and post-investment ROCE before treating spend as value creation.
This conclusion weakens if: CAPEX rises without higher utilization, operating cash flow or incremental returns.
CAPEX is cash spent on property, plant, equipment and other reported capital assets. CAPEX intensity divides that spend by revenue; high intensity is a reinvestment signal, not proof that the reinvestment will earn attractive returns.
CAPEXlargest spenders
1Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. TMO$376M
2Danaher Corporation DHR$269M
3Quest Diagnostics Incorporated DGX$138M
4IQVIA Holdings Inc. IQV$127M
5Labcorp Holdings Inc. LH$121M
CAPEX intensityhighest reinvestment intensity
1Personalis, Inc. PSNL20%
2Sotera Health Company SHC16%
3Castle Biosciences, Inc. CSTL14%
4RadNet, Inc. RDNT12%
5Qiagen N.V. QGEN9.6%
Capital expenditure · company comparison
30/30 level · 30/30 change
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All-company data · latest reported quarter
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Capacity base is net fixed assets plus capital work in progress, straight off the reported balance sheet. It is not cash spent, so it answers a narrower question than CAPEX — but it is reported for companies whose cash-flow CAPEX is not published, which is why it leads here. Missing years remain blank; annual values are never relabelled as quarters.
Full annual capacity base, operating cash flow, CAPEX and free cash flow history
Capacity base · net fixed assets + CWIP · fiscal-year history
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CareDx, Inc. has the lowest Gross debt among the 30 Diagnostics & Research companies compared here, at $18 million. Personalis, Inc. is next at $31 million. Natera, Inc. has the lowest Net debt at $863 million net cash, so level and change sit with different companies. 30 of 30 companies report a comparable reading, the latest through Mar 2026.
What the numbers say: Natera, Inc. has the clearest covered balance-sheet capacity with $863 million net cash and gross debt of $225 million. Absolute debt alone does not identify the strongest balance sheet because company scale differs; net debt and debt-to-equity carry more information.
LeaderCareDx, Inc. · $18 million
Gap41.9% versus #2 · Personalis, Inc.
Persistence8/8 recent comparable periods
Coverage30/30 companies · 549 observations
Investor read: Prioritize net-cash capacity and leverage relative to operating scale, not the smallest absolute rupee debt.
This conclusion weakens if: Net debt rises faster than revenue and profit for two consecutive reported periods.
Gross debt shows contractual borrowings. Net debt subtracts reported cash; a negative value means net cash. Lower debt can create capacity, but should be read against the scale and capital intensity of the business.
Gross debtlowest gross debt
1CareDx, Inc. CDNA$18M
2Personalis, Inc. PSNL$31M
3Castle Biosciences, Inc. CSTL$37M
4Veracyte, Inc. VCYT$39M
5GRAIL, Inc. GRAL$51M
Net debtlowest net debt
1Natera, Inc. NTRA$-863M
2GRAIL, Inc. GRAL$-772M
3BillionToOne, Inc. BLLN$-393M
4Medpace Holdings, Inc. MEDP$-383M
5Castle Biosciences, Inc. CSTL$-225M
Debt and balance-sheet capacity · company comparison
30/30 level · 30/30 change
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All-company data · latest reported quarter
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Medpace Holdings, Inc. has the highest ROCE among the 30 Diagnostics & Research companies compared here, at 30.2%. IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. is next at 17.4%. The same company also holds the highest ROCE change, at +10.4 percentage points. 30 of 30 companies report a comparable reading, the latest through Jun 2026.
What the numbers say: Medpace Holdings, Inc. leads ROCE at 30.2%, 12.8 percentage points above IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.. Medpace Holdings, Inc. has the strongest latest improvement at +10.4 percentage points. Read the leader beside the density of its reported history: a sparse high return is a candidate; a repeated high return is evidence of durability.
LeaderMedpace Holdings, Inc. · 30.2%
Gap73.6% versus #2 · IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.
Persistence6/8 recent comparable periods
Coverage30/30 companies · 543 observations
Investor read: Medpace Holdings, Inc. sets the level benchmark; use the change leader as an inflection watch only after another comparable report confirms it.
This conclusion weakens if: The next two comparable reports reverse the current roce change signal.
ROCE asks how much operating return the business earns on the capital employed. Direction matters, but a single exceptional year should not be mistaken for durability.
ROCEhighest
1Medpace Holdings, Inc. MEDP30%
2IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. IDXX17%
3Mettler-Toledo International Inc. MTD9.8%
4Illumina, Inc. ILMN4.3%
5BillionToOne, Inc. BLLN3.9%
ROCE changefastest improvers
1Medpace Holdings, Inc. MEDP+10.4 pp
2BillionToOne, Inc. BLLN+5.6 pp
3CareDx, Inc. CDNA+3.7 pp
4IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. IDXX+3.3 pp
5Castle Biosciences, Inc. CSTL+2.5 pp
Return on capital · company comparison
30/30 level · 30/30 change
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All-company data · latest reported quarter
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ICON Public Limited Company has the lowest Guarded PEG among the 30 Diagnostics & Research companies compared here, at 0.49×. Labcorp Holdings Inc. is next at 0.77×. CareDx, Inc. has the lowest P/E at 12.2×, so level and change sit with different companies. 7 of 30 companies report a comparable reading, the latest through Mar 2026.
What the numbers say: ICON Public Limited Company has the lowest comparable Guarded PEG at 0.49×, 36.4% below Labcorp Holdings Inc.. Only 7 of 30 companies pass the guard, so no broad “cheapest stock” conclusion is defensible unless the current multiple, own-history position and growth durability agree.
LeaderICON Public Limited Company · 0.49×
Gap36.4% versus #2 · Labcorp Holdings Inc.
Persistence0/8 recent comparable periods
Coverage7/30 companies · 67 observations
Investor read: Treat valuation as permission to investigate, never as a standalone reason to buy.
This conclusion weakens if: The next two comparable reports reverse the current p/e signal.
PEG is shown only when earnings are positive and three-year EPS growth is between 5% and 60%. It is recomputed consistently as the trailing P/E divided by that growth rate — reported earnings, never an expected-earnings multiple. On Indian companies it is shown only where the two data sources reconciled. A missing PEG is more honest than a low-base fiction.
Guarded PEGlowest PEG
1ICON Public Limited Company ICLR0.5
2Labcorp Holdings Inc. LH0.8
3Agilent Technologies, Inc. A1.0
4IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. IDXX1.6
5IQVIA Holdings Inc. IQV2.1
P/Elowest P/E
1CareDx, Inc. CDNA12.2
2Qiagen N.V. QGEN20.9
3IQVIA Holdings Inc. IQV21.1
4Illumina, Inc. ILMN21.4
5Quest Diagnostics Incorporated DGX22.5
Valuation · company comparison
7/30 level · 24/30 change
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All-company data · latest reported quarter
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GRAIL, Inc. has the lowest EV/EBITDA among the 30 Diagnostics & Research companies compared here, at 0.04×. Personalis, Inc. is next at 0.21×. OPKO Health, Inc. has the lowest P/BV at 0.71×, so level and change sit with different companies. 25 of 30 companies report a comparable reading, the latest through Mar 2026.
What the numbers say: GRAIL, Inc. leads ev/ebitda at 0.04×; OPKO Health, Inc. leads p/bv at 0.71×.
LeaderGRAIL, Inc. · 0.04×
Gap81% versus #2 · Personalis, Inc.
Persistence0/8 recent comparable periods
Coverage25/30 companies · 338 observations
Investor read: Treat valuation as permission to investigate, never as a standalone reason to buy.
This conclusion weakens if: The next two comparable reports reverse the current p/bv signal.
EV/EBITDA includes debt in enterprise value and is useful across different capital structures. P/BV prices the company against its own book. Both are market multiples on reported figures, not intrinsic-value estimates and not forecasts.
EV/EBITDAlowest EV/EBITDA
1GRAIL, Inc. GRAL0.0
2Personalis, Inc. PSNL0.2
3Sotera Health Company SHC11.9
4Quest Diagnostics Incorporated DGX12.5
5IQVIA Holdings Inc. IQV12.6
P/BVlowest P/BV
1OPKO Health, Inc. OPK0.7
2GRAIL, Inc. GRAL0.9
3ICON Public Limited Company ICLR0.9
4NeoGenomics, Inc. NEO1.2
5Revvity, Inc. RVTY1.4
Enterprise and book valuation · company comparison
25/30 level · 28/30 change
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All-company data · latest reported quarter
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Guardant Health, Inc. has the strongest one-year price move in Diagnostics & Research at +246.7%. Twist Bioscience Corporation leads on Mansfield relative strength against the S&P 500 at +75.2%. 21 of 29 covered companies are above zero on that measure. Every line covers 314 weekly closes through 2026-07-28.
Every price line is indexed to 100 over the chosen window. Mansfield relative strength compares a price ratio with its own 52-week average; zero separates leadership from lagging.
Price and relative strength
Price is rebased to 100 inside the selected window. Pair ratio rebases each selected company against one chosen denominator.
Before the conclusion · check the blind spots
What can make this comparison misleading?
This Diagnostics & Research comparison names 4 specific ways its own evidence can mislead, all listed below. All 30 companies here report on comparable dates, so no rank carries a stale marker. A high growth rate can still be a low-base artefact.
Keep these limits visible
A high growth rate can be a low-base artefact. The page keeps level and change separate for that reason.
A high ROCE can be temporary or flattered by a small capital base. Read it beside margin, cash conversion and reinvestment.
The 4-Factor Sector Score ranks research priority, not portfolio action. Management quality, catalysts and risks need equally fresh evidence before capital is deployed.
An “all companies” line chart preserves completeness, but rank changes should be checked against reporting dates before drawing a conclusion.
10 · the complete set
Which companies are included?
All 30 companies in the canonical Diagnostics & Research membership are listed below, largest market value first — nothing is silently dropped, even where a company reports too little to rank. The charts above default to a selective view; this register is the complete set, with each company's own latest reporting date beside it.
AHEAD means the company is beating the index by 5% or more over three months. LAGGING, FUNDAMENTALS UP means it is 20% or more behind over a year while its trailing twelve-month earnings grew 20% or more. Both rules are fixed and applied the same way in every sector.
This comparison is built from the reported filings of 30 Diagnostics & Research companies, normalized to a common $ scale and a shared quarter axis of up to 20 quarters each. Fundamentals run through Jun 2026 and market data through 2026-07-28. A second data feed fills gaps only after identity and scale reconciliation, and missing observations are never interpolated.
FundamentalsThrough Jun 2026 · up to 20 quarters per company
Market dataThrough 2026-07-28 · weekly price and relative-strength history
Derived metricsGrowth, changes, CAPEX intensity, net debt, guarded PEG and P/BV÷ROE are calculated only when their inputs are comparable.
Score confidenceMissing and stale evidence reduces confidence and pulls the 0–100 research-priority score toward neutral.
These 18 answers restate the Diagnostics & Research comparison above in question form. Every one is computed from the same 30 companies and the same reported filings as the rankings and charts, current through Jun 2026. Price and relative-strength answers run through 2026-07-28. Nothing here is estimated, and none of it is a recommendation.
Which Diagnostics & Research company is the biggest?
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the largest, with trailing-twelve-month revenue of $45,197 million, ahead of IQVIA Holdings Inc. at $16,632 million. That covers 25 of 30 companies with comparable reporting through Mar 2026.
Which Diagnostics & Research company is growing fastest?
BillionToOne, Inc. has the fastest revenue growth at 99.4% year on year, across 25 of 30 comparable companies. Fast growth off a small base is not the same as proven scale — check whether the rate holds across several quarters on the chart above before treating it as a trend.
Which Diagnostics & Research company has the best profit margins?
IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. has the highest operating margin at 31.8%, from 30 of 30 comparable companies. GRAIL, Inc. shows the biggest recent improvement, at +149.6 percentage points. A high margin matters most when it is holding or rising, not when it is peaking.
Which Diagnostics & Research company makes the most profit?
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. earns the most, at $6,900 million of trailing-twelve-month net profit, from 25 of 30 comparable companies. Qiagen N.V. has the fastest profit growth at 100%, though growth off a small or recovering profit base overstates how much has actually changed.
Which Diagnostics & Research company earns the highest return on capital?
Medpace Holdings, Inc. leads on return on capital employed at 30.2%, across 30 of 30 companies. Read it beside the length of its reported history: a high return that repeats for years is evidence of a durable business, while a single high reading can be a small capital base or one good year.
Which Diagnostics & Research stock is the cheapest?
On guarded PEG — where a LOWER number is cheaper — ICON Public Limited Company screens cheapest at 0.49×. Only 7 of 30 companies pass the comparability guard, so this is not a sector-wide "cheapest stock" verdict. Cheap on a multiple is a reason to investigate, never a reason to buy on its own.
Which Diagnostics & Research company has the strongest balance sheet?
CareDx, Inc. carries the lowest comparable gross debt at $18 million, from 30 of 30 companies. Absolute rupee debt alone does not settle it, because company scale differs — net debt and debt-to-equity in the chart above carry more information, and a very low-debt balance sheet can also mean under-investment.
Which Diagnostics & Research company is investing most in new capacity?
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. reports the largest capital spending at $376 million, across 30 of 30 companies. Spending consumes cash before it earns anything, so treat the ranking as a diligence queue: check commissioning, utilisation and the return earned on the completed assets before reading spend as value creation.
Is the Diagnostics & Research sector beating the market?
Diagnostics & Research has outperformed S&P 500 by 41.4% over the last 52 weeks and 32.9% over 13 weeks, measured on an equal-weight index of its current members. Inside the sector, 21 of 29 covered companies are beating the market on their own. Sector strength does not transfer evenly to every stock in it.
Which Diagnostics & Research stock has the strongest price momentum?
Twist Bioscience Corporation has the strongest relative strength against S&P 500. Relative strength answers last, after growth, quality and valuation: price can move well before the fundamentals confirm it, and sometimes without them confirming at all.
Which Diagnostics & Research company scores highest for research priority?
Veracyte, Inc. scores 67.9 out of 100 with 72% evidence confidence, from 25.6 points on growth and earnings, 14.1 on capital efficiency, 10.5 on valuation and 17.7 on relative strength. This ranks what deserves work next. It is not a buy recommendation, and management quality, catalysts and risk still need separate research.
How many Diagnostics & Research companies does this comparison cover, and over what period?
It compares 30 listed companies over up to 20 reported quarters of fundamentals and 8 fiscal years of capital allocation, ending Jun 2026, plus weekly price and relative-strength history. Membership is the full sector list — nothing is dropped for having thin data.
What is the total market cap of the Diagnostics & Research sector?
The 30 Diagnostics & Research companies on this page carry $784,868 million of combined market value. Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the largest at $214,206 million, about 27% of the sector's total on its own. Market value moves with price, so this reading is dated 2026-07-28.
What is the Diagnostics & Research sector's P/E ratio?
The median price-to-earnings ratio across the 30 Diagnostics & Research companies on this page is 34.8×, measured on the 24 that report a comparable figure. A sector-level history for this multiple is not held here, so this is a cross-section of today, not a comparison with the sector’s own past. Figures are as of 2026-07-28.
How is the Diagnostics & Research sector performing?
21 of the 29 covered Diagnostics & Research companies are beating S&P 500 on Mansfield relative strength. The sector itself is 41.4% ahead of S&P 500 over 52 weeks on an equal-weight index of its current members. Readings are as of 2026-07-28.
How many Diagnostics & Research stocks are listed in the US?
This comparison covers 30 listed Diagnostics & Research companies in the US, each above the size floor the site applies. The full ranked list is on this page, with reported fundamentals through Jun 2026. Membership is the full industry list — nothing is dropped for having thin data.
Why are some values on this page blank?
A blank means that company did not report a comparable figure for that period, so nothing is shown. Missing observations are never interpolated, carried forward, or replaced with a similar-looking accounting line, and a company with missing evidence has its research score pulled toward neutral rather than being scored as bad.
Is this investment advice?
No. Every figure here is a deterministic calculation from reported company filings and market data, published for research. It contains no recommendation to buy or sell any security, does not account for your circumstances, and is not a substitute for advice from a licensed adviser.