Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. Class A Common Stock (NYSE:BIO)

Bio-Rad Laboratories is a manufacturer and global supplier of clinical diagnostics and life science research products in the healthcare, analytical chemistry life science research and other markets. It offers a wide portfolio of products and systems which allow the separation of complex chemical and biological materials and discovery, analysis and purification of their components. Bio-Rad has extensive and direct distribution channels outside the United States through subsidiaries which focus on sales, customer service and product distribution. The company operates through two reportable segments - Life Science segment which designs, manufactures, markets and services reagents, apparatus and instruments utilized for biological research. Clinical Diagnostics - This business markets and distributes products to reference laboratories, hospital laboratories, state newborn screening facilities, physicians office laboratories, transfusion laboratories as well as insurance and forensic testing laboratories....