BDX · Healthcare
What a holder would want to know before buying BDX: where the price sits in its own history, how far it has fallen before and whether it recovered, and what the business behind it earns. All of it is arithmetic over free market data — no opinions, no recommendations.
Today’s price is 33% above the lowest point of the past year and 4% below the highest.
Over the past year it was cheaper than today on 92% of days and more expensive on 8%. Over the last 10 years: cheaper on 48% of days.
13% above its average price of the last 200 trading days.
Fell 20% or more twice in 10 years. The deepest fall was 30%; the longest took 3.5 years to get back to its peak. Every one recovered.
Now 18% below the Jul 2023 peak.
Becton, Dickinson and Company · Healthcare · Medical Instruments & Supplies · a large company worth $50.05B
Becton, Dickinson and Company develops, manufactures, and sells medical supplies, devices, laboratory equipment, and diagnostic products for healthcare institutions, physicians, life science researchers, clinical…
revenue profit
Sales of $21.84B in 2025, with $1.68B of profit. Sales grew in 3 of the last 3 years.
Keeps about 4 cents of every dollar of sales as profit.
Would need about 3.8 years of free cash flow to repay all its debt.
You pay $43 for every $1 of last year’s profit, and $14 for every $1 of profit expected next year.
A high number means buyers expect growth; a low one means they expect little, or fear trouble. Large US companies have averaged roughly 15–20 over the decades.
Pays 2.30% a year in dividends at today’s price · next ex-dividend Sep 9.
15 analysts: 7 say buy, 7 hold, 1 sell. Their average 12-month target is $194.08 (range $165.00–$225.00).
Insiders made 0 purchases and 11 sales in the last 6 months. Executives routinely sell shares they were paid in; buying with their own money is the rarer signal.
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