Becton Dickinson & Co. (NYSE:BDX) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.37M but it saw 1235210 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 69.30B USD, the company’s current market price of $239.76 came falling about -0.79 while comparing to the previous closing price of $241.67. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $269.52 and as low as $218.75. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $239.18 while lowest mark touched by it was $242.08.
Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Becton Dickinson & Co. (BDX) gives us an average price of $235.77, while its current price level is -11.04% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 9.60% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $236.45 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $236.70. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.80% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 1.93%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 56.46 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.
The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the Citigroup which upgraded the stock as “Buy” in its note to investors issued on October 01, 2024, recommending a price target of between $255 and $275 for it. Raymond James also issued its recommendations for the stock as it upgraded the price target for the stock is $305.
Over the week, BDX’s stock price is moving 1.94% up while it is -1.00% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -1.67% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -6.98%.
The latest quarterly earnings report issued by the company reported quarterly earnings per share (EPS) of 3.42 beaten by the consensus estimate of 3.43 for the same. The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2024-Nov-07, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 3.77 while estimate for next year EPS is 13.11. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $5.11B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $20.15B and seeing the company making $21.59B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $5.36B for current-quarter revenue.
Currently, Becton Dickinson & Co.’s total number of outstanding shares is 290.39M. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 3.21% and return on equity (ROE) at 5.63%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 49.33 while having a 16.75 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.43. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 2.68 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 3.50. Its return on asset (ROA) is 2.69% on average.
