Becton, Dickinson and Company Declares Quarterly Dividend, Payable on Dec. 31, 2021
November 04, 2021 at 03:25 pm IST
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Becton, Dickinson and Company has declared a quarterly dividend of $0.87 per common share, an increase of 4.8% from the previous quarter. The dividend will be payable on Dec. 31, 2021 to holders of record on Dec. 10, 2021. The indicated annual dividend rate for fiscal year 2022 is $3.48 per share.
Becton, Dickinson and Company specializes in the development, manufacturing and marketing of medical and diagnostic equipment and materials. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- medical equipment (73.5%): surgical instruments, urological care products, pharmaceutical systems, etc.;
- diagnostic materials (18.7%): automated systems for blood testing, mycobacteria detection, and molecular biology, medical biology devices, etc.;
- clinical research and development tools (7.8%): tools for discovering drugs and vaccines, studying genes, culturing cells, and manipulating liquids, instruments for sorting and analyzing cells, monoclonal antibodies, etc.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (57.4%), Europe/Middle East/Africa (21.9%), Asia (15%) and other (5.7%).