MORGAN STANLEY PLC/CALL/BECTON DICKINSON AND CO./270/0.1/20.12.24 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 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%).