Santa Clara, California-based Agilent Technologies, Inc. (A) is a global life sciences, diagnostics, and applied chemical analysis company. With a market cap of $31.4 billion, it provides instruments, software, services, and consumables used in laboratories across pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, environmental testing, food safety, academic research, and clinical diagnostics.
Shares of Agilent have surged marginally over the past 52 weeks and dipped 16.3% on a YTD basis, compared to the S&P 500 Index’s ($SPX) 25.1% gains over the past year and 8.6% rise this year.