Becton, Dickinson and Company Stock

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 management systems (49.8%): medication delivery systems, pharmaceutical systems, advanced patient monitoring systems, etc.; - diagnostic materials and clinical research and development tools (25.6%): automated systems for blood testing, mycobacteria detection, and molecular biology, medical biology devices, tools for studying genes and culturing cells, instruments for sorting and analyzing cells, monoclonal antibodies, etc.; - interventional medical equipment (24.6%): surgical instruments, urological care products, 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%).