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

BDX POWR Grades

• BDX scores best on the Stability dimension, with a Stability rank ahead of 84.16% of US stocks.
• BDX's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving down over the last 177 days.
• BDX's current lowest rank is in the Quality metric (where it is better than 42.17% of US stocks).

BDX Stock Summary

• BDX has a market capitalization of $70,410,383,287 -- more than approximately 96.94% of US stocks.
• BECTON DICKINSON & CO's stock had its IPO on January 1, 1986, making it an older stock than 93.49% of US equities in our set.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, BDX is more volatile than just 3.96% of stocks we're observing.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to BECTON DICKINSON & CO, a group of peers worth examining would be ZTS, A, ABB, ETN, and BSX.
• 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 3.8; this is 25.49% lower than that of the median Healthcare stock.
• Over the past 243 months, BDX's price/sales ratio has gone up 1.8.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for BDX.

BDX Growth Metrics

Its 4 year revenue growth rate is now at 41.33%.
• Its 5 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at -29.76%.
• Its 2 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -13%.

Over the past 33 months, BDX's revenue has gone up $1,516,000,000.

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
2022-09-30	18,870	2,634	1,689
2022-06-30	19,782	2,612	1,666
2022-03-31	20,031	3,044	1,830
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

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.