Guardant Health, Inc. (GH) vs QIAGEN N.V. (QGEN)

Guardant Health, Inc. and QIAGEN N.V. are both Diagnostics & Research companies. Guardant Health, Inc. is the larger, with a market value of $20.6B against $10.5B — 2.0× the size. Guardant Health, Inc. has negative trailing earnings, so its P/E is not meaningful; QIAGEN N.V. trades at 26.1×. Guardant Health, Inc. grew revenue faster over the last twelve months: 41.7% against 2.96%. QIAGEN N.V. has the higher net margin (19.5% vs −37.9%) and the higher return on invested capital (6.62% vs −25.7%). Across the 18 metrics below, QIAGEN N.V. leads on 11 and Guardant Health, Inc. on 7.

Valuation

Metric GH QGEN Diagnostics & Research median
P/E n/m 26.07 34.52
P/S 16.20 5.00 4.24
P/B n/m 3.13 3.42
Price to free cash flow n/m 23.83 33.51
EV/EBITDA n/m 17.43 23.44
EV/Sales 16.55 5.40 5.18
Earnings yield (2.39%) 3.84% (1.50%)
Free cash flow yield (1.21%) 4.20% 0.00%

Profitability

Metric GH QGEN Diagnostics & Research median
Gross margin 65.19% 62.20% 48.32%
Operating margin (39.41%) 21.21% (5.68%)
Net margin (37.93%) 19.49% (4.10%)
Free cash flow margin (18.15%) 20.98% 0.00%
Return on equity 153.90% 11.93% 0.00%
Return on assets (30.68%) 6.99% (6.05%)
Return on invested capital (25.68%) 6.62% 0.00%

Growth

Metric GH QGEN Diagnostics & Research median
Revenue growth (TTM) 41.69% 2.96% 8.99%
EPS growth (last fiscal year) 6.74% 424.32% 20.36%
Revenue growth, 5-year CAGR 27.92% 2.25% 7.30%
Net income growth, 5-year CAGR 0.00% 3.42% 0.00%

Health

Metric GH QGEN Diagnostics & Research median
Debt to equity (5.45) 0.49 0.01
Current ratio 3.60 2.85 2.27
Net debt to EBITDA (0.75) 0.84 0.68

Dividend

Metric GH QGEN Diagnostics & Research median
Dividend yield — 0.69% 0.67%
Payout ratio — 0.18 0.20

Size

Metric GH QGEN Diagnostics & Research median
Market cap 20.59b 10.50b 2.22b

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