5. Quidel Corp. [QDEL]
Sector: Healthcare
Industry: Diagnostics & Research
Current price: $115.02 | 1 year: +50% | 5 years: +235.96%
Quidel Corporation discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets diagnostic healthcare products and solutions. The Company offers diagnostic solutions which help in the detection and diagnosis of critical diseases and other medical conditions, including infectious, women health, gastrointestinal, autoimmune, and bone health and thyroid diseases.
Quidel is a strong candidate on the list. It has a market cap of $4.89 billion with an enterprise value of $4.49 billion. Their price to sales ratio is 2.94 and their price to book ratio is 3.65. It is trading at $115.02 with a 52-week high of $306.72 and a 52-week low of $105.93. Their profit margin is 48.76% and their operating margin is 64.12%. Their management effectiveness shows crazy numbers as well: their return on assets is 47.87%, and their return on equity is 85.63%. They had revenue of $1.66 billion and their gross profit was $1.35 billion. Their quarterly revenue growth is 431.70%. About the cash flow statement, their operating cash flow was $629.76 and they are currently sitting on total cash of $489.94 million. Quidel is extremely strong and it probably will continue to perform like this throughout the upcoming months