Revvity (NYSE:RVTY) versus Evotec (NASDAQ:EVO) Critical Contrast

Revvity (NYSE:RVTY) and Evotec (NASDAQ:EVO) are both healthcare companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.

Risk and Volatility

Revvity has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Evotec has a beta of 1.92, suggesting that its share price is 92% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Revvity and Evotec”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Revvity	$2.86 billion	4.41	$241.20 million	$2.09	53.96
Evotec	$891.97 million	0.76	-$117.12 million	N/A	N/A

Revvity has higher revenue and earnings than Evotec.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Revvity and Evotec, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Revvity	1	11	3	0	2.13
Evotec	1	2	2	0	2.20

Revvity presently has a consensus target price of $108.36, suggesting a potential downside of 3.92%. Evotec has a consensus target price of $3.00, suggesting a potential upside of 57.07%. Given Evotec’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Evotec is more favorable than Revvity.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

86.7% of Revvity shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.8% of Evotec shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Revvity shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Evotec shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Revvity and Evotec’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Revvity	8.26%	8.00%	4.83%
Evotec	-26.20%	-24.93%	-11.35%

Summary

Revvity beats Evotec on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Revvity

Revvity, Inc. provides health sciences solutions, technologies, and services in the Americas, Europe, and Asia, and internationally. The Life Sciences segment provides instruments, reagents, informatics, software, subscriptions, detection, imaging technologies, warranties, training, and services. Its Diagnostics segment provides instruments, reagents, assay platforms, and software products for the early detection of genetic disorders, such as pregnancy and early childhood, as well as infectious disease testing in the diagnostics market. Its products are used for testing and screening genetic abnormalities, disorders, and diseases, including down syndrome, hypothyroidism, muscular dystrophy, infertility, and various metabolic conditions. This segment also develops technologies that enable and support genomic workflows using protein coupled receptor and next-generation DNA sequencing for applications in oncology, immunodiagnostics, and drug discovery. It serves pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, laboratories, academic and research institutions, public health authorities, private healthcare organizations, doctors, and government agencies under the AutoDELFIA, BACS-on-Beads, BIOCHIPs, Bioo Scientific,BoBs , chemagic, Chitas, DELFIA, DELFIA Xpress, DOPlify, EONIS, EUROArray, EUROIMMUN, EUROLabWorkstation, EUROLINE, EUROPattern, Evolution Evoya, explorer, Fontus, Genoglyphix, GSP, Haoyuan, IDS, IDS-i10 IDS-i10T, IDS-iSYS, iLab, iQ, JANUS, LabChip, LifeCycle, LimsLink, Migele, MultiPROBE, NEXTFLEX, NextPrep, Pannoramic, Panthera Puncher, PG-Seq, PGFind PKamp, PreNAT II, Prime, Protein Clear, ProteinEXact, QSigh, QuantiVac, RONIA, Sciclone, SimplicityChrom, Specimen Gate,Superflex, Symbio, T-SPOT, Touch, Twister, Vanadis, VariSpec, ViaCord VICTOR 2D, and Zephyr brand name. The company was formerly known as PerkinElmer, Inc. and changed its name to Revvity, Inc. in April 2023. Revvity, Inc. was founded in 1937 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

About Evotec

Evotec SE operates as drug discovery and development partner for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry worldwide. The company is developing pharmaceutical products in various therapeutic areas, such as autoimmune diseases, cancer, CNS diseases, diabetes, fibrosis, immunology, infectious diseases, kidney diseases, liver diseases, pain and inflammation, rare diseases, respiratory diseases, tuberculosis, and women’s health. It has collaboration agreements with SK bioscience, JingXin, Carrick Therapeutics, Sernova, Topas Therapeutics, Exscientia, CONBA Group, Centrexion, Sanofi/NIH, Kazia Therapeutics, Bristol Myers Squibb, Topas Therapeutics, Immunitas, Exscientia, and Bayer; and Inserm, the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, Lille University Hospital, and Inserm Transfert to identify novel therapeutic targets and diagnostic and prognostic markers in obesity and metabolic diseases, as well as collaboration with CHDI Foundation, Inc.; and a strategic partnership with Dewpoint Therapeutics to advance its portfolio targeting biomolecular condensates as a novel domain for therapeutic intervention towards the clinic, as well as research collaboration with Pfizer for metabolic and infectious diseases. The company was formerly known as Evotec AG and changed its name to Evotec SE in April 2019. Evotec SE was incorporated in 1993 and is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany.