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DHR vs VLDR

Side-by-side comparison of Danaher Corporation (DHR) and Velodyne Lidar Inc. (VLDR): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both DHR and VLDR operate in Industrial Machinery/Components (Industrials), so they compete in similar markets.
  • DHR is the larger of the two at $129.90B, about 183.2x VLDR ($709.2M).
  • DHR has hit the wire 17 times in the past 4 weeks while VLDR has been quiet.
  • DHR has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 11 for VLDR).
MetricDHRVLDR
Company
Danaher Corporation
Velodyne Lidar Inc.
Price
$183.50-0.45%
$1.26+1.20%
Market cap
$129.90B
$709.2M
1M return
+4.46%
-
1Y return
-7.90%
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Industry
Industrial Machinery/Components
Industrial Machinery/Components
Exchange
NYSE
NASDAQ
IPO
News (4w)
17
0
Recent ratings
25
11
DHR

Danaher Corporation

Danaher Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets professional, medical, industrial, and commercial products and services worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Life Sciences, Diagnostics, and Environmental & Applied Solutions. The Life Sciences segment provides mass spectrometers; cellular analysis, lab automation, and centrifugation instruments; microscopes; and genomics consumables. This segment also offers bioprocess technologies, consumables, and services; and filtration, separation, and purification technologies to the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical, food and beverage, medical, and life sciences companies, as well as universities, medical schools and research institutions, and various industrial manufacturers. The Diagnostics segment provides chemistry, immunoassay, microbiology, and automation systems, as well as hematology and molecular diagnostics products. This segment offers analytical instruments, reagents, consumables, software, and services for hospitals, physicians' offices, reference laboratories, and other critical care settings. The Environmental & Applied Solutions segment offers instrumentation, consumables, software, services, and disinfection systems to analyze, treat, and manage ultra-pure, potable, industrial, waste, ground, source, and ocean water in residential, commercial, industrial, and natural resource applications. This segment also provides instruments, software, services, and consumables for various color and appearance management, packaging design and quality management, packaging converting, printing, marking, coding, and traceability applications for consumer, pharmaceutical, and industrial products. The company was formerly known as Diversified Mortgage Investors, Inc. and changed its name to Danaher Corporation in 1984. Danaher Corporation was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Washington, the District of Columbia.

VLDR

Velodyne Lidar Inc.

Velodyne Lidar, Inc. provides real-time three-dimensional vision for autonomous systems worldwide. It offers a broad lineup of surround-view lidar to support numerous end applications, including autonomous vehicles, drones, security, and mapping; and solid state lidar technology that combine the high reliability and long lifetime of traditional micro electro-mechanical systems solutions. The company also provides Vella software solution to any vehicle that utilizes a Velarray lidar. Its lidar-based smart vision solutions are also used in non-automotive applications, such as autonomous mobile robots, unmanned aerial vehicles, last-mile delivery, precision agriculture, advanced security systems, and smart city initiatives. Velodyne Lidar, Inc. was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

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