Becton Dickinson & Co (BDX) plunge -0.94% in a week: will this be a lucky break through?

Becton Dickinson & Co (NYSE: BDX) established initial surge of 0.48% at $167.95, as the Stock market unbolted on Thursday, before settling in for the price of $167.14 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, BDX posted a 52-week range of $163.33-$251.99.

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The Healthcare sector firm’s twelve-monthly sales growth has been 4.72% for the last half of the decade. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 8.27%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 8.21%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $286.61 million, simultaneously with a float of $286.02 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $48.14 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $211.34, while the 200-day Moving Average is $228.05.

Becton Dickinson & Co (BDX) Ownership Facts and Figures

Sometimes it is also beneficial to study the sentiment of large-scale investors towards the stock of the Becton Dickinson & Co industry. Becton Dickinson & Co’s current insider ownership accounts for 0.20%, in contrast to 92.28% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Apr 09 ’25, this organization’s EVP & President, Medical sold 479 shares at the rate of 197.28, making the entire transaction reach 94,497 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 4,887.

Becton Dickinson & Co (BDX) Earnings and Revenue Records

Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 3.99 per share during the current fiscal year.

Becton Dickinson & Co’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 8.21% and is forecasted to reach 14.86 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 7.22% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the 8.27% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.

Becton Dickinson & Co (NYSE: BDX) Trading Performance Indicators

Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Becton Dickinson & Co (BDX). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 0.64. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 6.76. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $32.05, and its Beta score is 0.33. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 2.31. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 18.59.

In the same vein, BDX’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 5.24, a figure that is expected to reach 3.43 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 14.86 at the market close of one year from today.

Technical Analysis of Becton Dickinson & Co (BDX)

Now, what If we examine the latest scores posted by [Becton Dickinson & Co, BDX]. During the last 5-days, its volume was better the volume of 2.46 million it reported in year-ago period. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 7.77% While, its Average True Range was 6.82.

Raw Stochastic average of Becton Dickinson & Co (BDX) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 5.21%, which indicates a major fall in contrast to 10.33% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 83.62% that was higher than 40.17% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.