Becton Dickinson & Co. (BDX): Price and Financial Metrics

BDX POWR Grades

• BDX scores best on the Stability dimension, with a Stability rank ahead of 86.22% of US stocks.
• BDX's strongest trending metric is Value; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• BDX's current lowest rank is in the Momentum metric (where it is better than 19.56% of US stocks).

BDX Stock Summary

• BDX has a market capitalization of $76,822,693,442 -- more than approximately 96.6% of US stocks.
• Becton Dickinson & Co's stock had its IPO on January 1, 1986, making it an older stock than 92.84% of US equities in our set.
• The volatility of Becton Dickinson & Co's share price is greater than that of only 4.16% US stocks with at least 200 days of trading history.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to BDX, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are ATRI, SYNA, PLXS, ADTN, and O.
• Visit BDX's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.bd.com.

BDX Valuation Summary

• BDX's price/sales ratio is 3.6; this is 68.28% lower than that of the median Healthcare stock.
• BDX's price/sales ratio has moved up 1.1 over the prior 243 months.
• BDX's price/earnings ratio has moved up 15.2 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for BDX.

BDX Growth Metrics

Its 3 year revenue growth rate is now at 39.25%.
• Its 4 year price growth rate is now at 55.45%.
• The 5 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 56.48%.

BDX's revenue has moved up $2,810,000,000 over the prior 15 months.

The table below shows BDX's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	19,927	3,788	1,676
2021-09-30	20,248	4,647	2,002
2021-06-30	19,896	5,177	1,865
2021-03-31	18,861	5,064	1,640
2020-12-31	18,207	4,359	1,508
2020-09-30	17,117	3,539	767

BDX's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• BDX has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 56.62% of graded US stocks.
• BDX's asset turnover comes in at 0.365 -- ranking 118th of 186 Medical Equipment stocks.
• MYO, BTCY, and NURO are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with BDX.

The table below shows BDX's key quality metrics over time.