What is Agilent?
Agilent Technologies is an American multinational company that engages in the designing and manufacturing of Bio-analytical equipment and Electronic analysis equipment. The company operates through its four divisions: Electronic Measurement, Chemical Analysis, Life Sciences and Diagnostics & Genomics. Agilent Technologies was incorporated in the year 1999 by Bill Hewlett and his co-founder David Packard.
Its products line includes oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, Logic analyzers, signal generators, mass spectrometers, Dna microarrays, vector network analyzers, liquid and gas chromatographs, atomic force microscopes and much more. It has a primary listing under the trading symbol 'A' on the stock exchange of New York. The company's corporate headquarters is located in Santa Clara, California, United States. Agilent sells its products in more than 110 countries all over the world. It is one of the largest manufacturing companies of electronic measurement equipment across the globe. Agilent competes with Bruker Corp., Illumina, Inc., Life Technologies Corp., Danaher Corporation and Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.