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Becton Dickinson

The headquarter of Becton Dickinson is based in Franklin Lakes. The company mostly operates in the health care eq. & services sector. Becton Dickinson is being led by CEO Vincent A. Forlenza. Suketu Upadhyay runs the company as a CFO. The global health care companies gained around 102 percent over the period 2006-2016. As from 2011 the sector is 64 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-December 2016) there is a plus of 102 percent.

Past year was a negative year for Becton Dickinson investors

Over the period from December 2015 till December 2016 the stock gained around 8 percent. Over the period from December 2011 till December 2016 the stock rose on average 126 percent. The net results between 2011 and 2015 were far from constant and fluctuated between 1,26 billion dollars and 695 million dollars.

Becton Dickinson paid out dividends in the past 5 years. On average Becton Dickinson's dividend yield over the past 5 years was around 10 percent annually. Over the period 2011-2015 Becton Dickinson raised it's dividends per share each year. Based on the yearly higher dividend payments Becton Dickinson is a kind of dividend aristocrat.

Becton Dickinson financed with relatively low debt

Last year the balance sheet of the American company was worth 26,82 billion dollars. The total debt of the health care company was at the end of 2015 19,66 billion dollars, which equals around 73,29 percent of the total balance sheet. At the end of 2015 the health care company's stock was traded with a price/earnings-ratio 26. So the stock' value was 26 times the 2015' earnings per share. We could say that based on it's price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the American stock can be seen as a value stock.

At the end of 2015 the health care company's market capitalization (the number of shares times the market price) equaled around 31,13 billion dollars. At the end of 2015 around 210,7 million stocks were listed.

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