Becton Dickinson & Co (BDX) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $227.21, with 5.75 million shares of worth about $1.31 billion changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -3.52% during that period and on February 06, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -7.28%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 290.01M shares, out of which, 289.43M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -8.56% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -1.51%. Year-to-date (YTD), BDX shares are showing a performance of 0.15% which decreased to -3.34% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $218.75 but also hit the highest price of $251.99 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Becton Dickinson & Co shares is 2.09 million. The stock is currently trading -5.56% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -1.77% for SMA50 and it goes to -2.82% lower than SMA200.
Becton Dickinson & Co (NYSE: BDX) currently have 290.01M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 88.90% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $65.89B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.35. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 37.77, while it has posted earnings per share of $6.02 in the same period. Its PEG reads 4.69 and has Quick Ratio of 0.63 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.74. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for BDX, volatility over the week remained 2.68% while standing at 2.19% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 9.52% while it is estimated to increase by 8.90% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 8.06% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 8.27% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Citigroup on October 01, 2024 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $255 and $275 to it. Coverage by Goldman stated Becton Dickinson & Co (BDX) stock as a Buy in their note to investors on May 30, 2024, suggesting a price target of $274 for the stock. On July 24, 2023, Raymond James Upgrade their recommendations, while on May 30, 2023, Morgan Stanley Resumed their ratings for the stock with a price target of $295. Stock get an Overweight rating from Piper Sandler on May 05, 2023.
