Becton, Dickinson and Company is a medical technology company engaged in the development, manufacture and sale of a range of medical supplies, devices, laboratory equipment and diagnostic products. Co.'s business segments are: BD Medical, which produces an array of medical technologies and devices that are used to help improve healthcare delivery in a range of settings; BD Life Sciences, which provides products for the safe collection and transport of diagnostics specimens, and instruments and reagent systems to detect a range of infectious diseases, healthcare-associated infections and cancers; and BD Interventional, which provides vascular, urology, oncology and surgical products. We show 45 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our BDX shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute BDX market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing BDX market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing BDX's market cap history versus its peers.
Many "beginner" or "novice" investors will look at one stock trading at a price of $10 per share and another trading at
a price of $20 per share and think the latter company is worth twice as much. Of course, that is a completely meaningless comparison without also knowing how many shares outstanding there are for each of the two companies,
and then calculating their respective market caps. Comparing the share price of BDX versus a peer is one thing; comparing
BDX market cap versus a peer is a completely different story.
Furthermore, via fluctuation both in per-share price and in the number of shares outstanding (via issuance of new shares over time, the repurchase of existing shares),
the market cap for a company like BDX can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching BDX by allowing them to research the BDX market cap history. |
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