BDX (BDX) Stock

About BDX

BDX is led by CEO Thomas E. Polen Jr., employs 70,000 people, headquartered in Franklin Lakes, US, publicly traded since 1973.

BDX stock trades at $187.12 with a market capitalization of $51.56B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 57.29, price-to-book of 2.14, price-to-sales of 2.52. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $127.59 and $193.07, and currently trades 3.1% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 2.21%.

On profitability, BDX generates a return on equity (ROE) of 3.79%, return on capital employed of 4.96%, an operating margin of 11.80%, a net profit margin of 4.52%.

In its most recent fiscal year, BDX reported annual revenue of $21.8B, net profit of $1.7B, revenue has compounded at 6.3% a year over the last five years, profit at 13.9% a year. Profit growing faster than revenue points to expanding margins.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.69, a current ratio of 1.11, total assets of $55.3B, $851.0M in cash and equivalents.

BDX has a beta of 0.26 (less volatile than the overall market).