Becton Dickinson & Co (NYSE:BDX) currently has a daily average trading volume of 2.71M but it saw 4059447 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 49.37B USD, the company’s current market price of $172.27 came rising about 0.73 while comparing to the previous closing price of $171.02. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $251.99 and as low as $163.33.
Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Becton Dickinson & Co (BDX) gives us an average price of $184.60, while its current price level is -31.63% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 5.47% 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 $206.04 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $226.46. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 2.52% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 2.73%. 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 33.52 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.
Piper Sandler downgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Neutral” from “Overweight” on May 02, 2025 while assigning a price target of $185. Goldman also issued its recommendations for the stock as it downgraded the price target for the stock is $192.
Over the week, BDX’s stock price is moving 2.57% up while it is -14.73% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -24.07% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -27.30%.
Currently, Becton Dickinson & Co’s total number of outstanding shares is 286.61M with 0.56% of that held by the insiders while 93.60% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 3.54% and return on equity (ROE) at 5.97%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 32.87 while having a 11.64 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.26. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.96 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 2.37. Its return on asset (ROA) is 2.80% on average.
