Currently, there are 290.01M common shares owned by the public and among those 289.52M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 0.35% and -3.73% over the past three months. BDX shares are trading -7.14% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -6.82% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $218.75 and touched a high of $249.89 over the same period. BDX has an average intraday trading volume of 1.68 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 1.41%, -1.20%, and -3.10% respectively.
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Institutional ownership of Becton Dickinson & Co (NYSE: BDX) shares accounts for 90.31% of the company’s 290.01M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $65.67B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.41. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 38.12, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $5.94. The company has a PEG of 4.24 and a Quick Ratio of 0.74 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.81. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 1.72% over the week and 1.82% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 9.69%, and 9.00% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 9.00% over the next five years, compared to 8.27% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the BDX, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Citigroup stated their Buy rating for the stock in a research note on October 01, 2024, with the firm’s price target at $255-$275. Goldman coverage for the Becton Dickinson & Co (BDX) stock in a research note released on May 30, 2024 offered a Buy rating with a price target of $274. Raymond James was of a view on July 24, 2023 that the stock is Outperform, while Morgan Stanley gave the stock Overweight rating on May 30, 2023, issuing a price target of $295. Piper Sandler on their part issued Overweight rating on May 05, 2023.
