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Shares Stats
| Shares Outstanding | 286,630,000 |
| Shares Float | 286,160,000 |
| Shares Short | 3,110,000 |
| Insider Holdings | 57% |
| Institution Holdings | 93.85% |
About Becton Dickinson & Co
Becton, Dickinson and Company develops, manufactures, and sells medical supplies, devices, laboratory equipment, and diagnostic products for healthcare institutions, physicians, life science researchers, clinical laboratories, pharmaceutical industry, and the general public worldwide. The BD Medical segment provides peripheral intravenous (IV) and advanced peripheral catheters, central lines, acute dialysis catheters, vascular access technology, vascular care and preparation products, needle-free IV connectors and extensions sets, closed-system drug transfer devices, hazardous drug detections, hypodermic syringes and needles, anesthesia needles and trays, enteral syringes, and sharps disposal systems; IV medication safety and infusion therapy delivery systems, medication compounding workflow systems, automated medication dispensing and supply management systems, informatics and analytics and pharmacy automation systems, and medication inventory optimization and tracking systems; hemodynamic monitoring systems; and prefillable drug delivery systems. The BD Life Sciences segment offers specimen and blood collection products; automated blood and tuberculosis culturing, molecular testing, microorganism identification and drug susceptibility, and liquid-based cytology systems, as well as rapid diagnostic assays, microbiology laboratory automation products, and plated media products; and fluorescence-activated cell sorters and analyzers, antibodies and kits, reagent systems, and solutions for single-cell gene expression analysis, as well as clinical oncology, immunological, and transplantation diagnostic/monitoring reagents and analyzers. The BD Interventional segment provides hernia and soft tissue repair, biological and bioresorbable grafts, biosurgery, and other surgical products; surgical infection prevention; peripheral intervention products; and urology and critical care products. The company was founded in 1897 and is headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey.
General
| Name | Becton Dickinson & Co |
| Ticker | BDX |
| Exchange | NYSE |
| Sector | Healthcare |
| Industry | Medical Instruments & Supplies |
| Currency | USD |
| Country | USA |
| Fiscal Year End | September |
| Full Time Employees | 70,000 |
Highlights
| Analyst Target | 195.67 |
| Market Cap | 54,459,200,000 |
| PE Ratio | 32.58 |
| PEG Ratio | 0.99 |
| EBITDA | 5,634,999,808 |
Financials
| Curr Year EPS Estimate | 14.38 |
| Next Quarter EPS Estimate | 3.99 |
| Profit Margin | 7.68% |
| Operating Margin | 13.87 |
| Return on Assets | 0.04 |
| Return on Equity | 0.07 |
| Revenue | 21.8B |
| Earnings Per Share | 5.82 |
| Revenue Per Share | 75.93 |
| Gross Profit | 10,023,000,064 |
| Quarterly Revenue Growth | 0.08 |
Valuation
| Trailing PE | 33.11 |
| Forward PE | 12.89 |
| Price/Sales (Trailing 12 Mt.) | 2.53 |
| Price/Book (Most Recent Quarter) | 2.18 |
Dividend
Becton Dickinson & Co pays out a dividend of $4.19 per share, with a dividend yield of 2.20%.
BDX's next dividend payment will be made to shareholders on December 31, 2025.
They pay out 71.48% of their earnings out as a dividend.
Recent Dividends
| Dec 31, 2025 | $1.05 |
| Sep 30, 2025 | $1.04 |
| Jun 30, 2025 | $1.04 |
| Mar 31, 2025 | $1.04 |
| Dec 31, 2024 | $1.04 |
| Sep 30, 2024 | $0.95 |
| Jun 28, 2024 | $0.95 |
| Mar 29, 2024 | $0.95 |
| Dec 29, 2023 | $0.95 |
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