Becton, Dickinson and
$178.07Change from previous close: −0.52%Absolute change: −$0.93
Valuation
Data as of October 2, 2026
Valuation multiples
- Market cap
- $48.5B
- Enterprise value
- $64.6B
- P/E (trailing 12 months)
- 30.8
- Forward P/E
- 13.4
- PEG
- 1.11
- Price/book
- 1.99
- Price/sales
- 2.16
- EV/EBITDA
- 10.6
- EV/revenue
- 2.87
Profitability and growth
- Gross margin
- 46.9%
- Operating margin
- 15.7%
- Net margin
- 4.2%
- ROE
- 6.6%
- ROA
- 4.3%
- Revenue growth (year over year)
- 5.4%
- Earnings growth (year over year)
- -31.4%
Financial health
- Total cash
- $709M
- Total debt
- $16.81B
- Debt/equity
- 0.69
- Current ratio
- 0.87
- Quick ratio
- 0.33
Dividends
- Annual dividend per share
- $4.20
- Dividend yield
- 2.4%
- Payout ratio
- 72.5%
- Ex-dividend date
- September 9, 2026
Analysts and estimates
- Average price target
- $195.67
- Median price target
- $197.50
- High price target
- $225.00
- Low price target
- $170.00
- Analysts with a price target
- 12
- Consensus
- Buy
- Forward EPS
- $13.30
- EPS estimate, current year
- $12.62
Shares and trading
- Beta
- 0.28
- Average volume
- 1.78M
- Shares outstanding
- 272.39M
- Float
- 271.66M
- Institutional ownership
- 99.7%
- Insider ownership
- 0.4%
- Short interest (% of float)
- 4.7%
- Short ratio (days)
- 6.80