Compare · BDX vs TMO
BDX vs TMO
Side-by-side comparison of Becton Dickinson and Company (BDX) and Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc (TMO): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- BDX operates in Health Care, while TMO operates in Industrials - the two are in different parts of the market.
- TMO is the larger of the two at $240.87B, about 4.9x BDX ($49.29B).
- Over the past year, BDX is down 3.1% and TMO is up 37.2% - TMO leads by 40.2 points.
- TMO has been more active in the news (10 items in the past 4 weeks vs 2 for BDX).
- Both have 25 recent analyst ratings on file.
- Company
- Becton Dickinson and Company
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc
- Price
- $180.78-0.29%
- $651.24-1.13%
- Market cap
- $49.29B
- $240.87B
- 1M return
- -3.65%
- +6.11%
- 1Y return
- -3.09%
- +37.16%
- Industry
- Medical/Dental Instruments
- Industrial Machinery/Components
- Exchange
- NYSE
- NYSE
- IPO
- News (4w)
- 2
- 10
- Recent ratings
- 25
- 25
Becton Dickinson and Company
Becton, Dickinson and Company develops, manufactures, and sells medical supplies, devices, laboratory equipment, and diagnostic products worldwide. The company's BD Medical segment offers peripheral intravenous (IV) and advanced peripheral catheters, central lines, acute dialysis catheters, vascular care and preparation products, needle-free IV connectors and extensions sets, closed-system drug transfer devices, hazardous drug detection, hypodermic syringes and needles, anesthesia needles and trays, enteral syringes, sharps disposal systems; infusion pumps, dedicated disposables, IV fluids, medication compounding workflow systems, automated medication dispensing, automated supply management systems, medication inventory optimization and tracking systems; syringes, pen needles, and other products for diabetes care; and prefillable drug delivery systems. Its BD Life Sciences segment provides specimen and blood collection products and systems; automated blood and tuberculosis culturing, molecular testing, microorganism identification and drug susceptibility, and liquid-based cytology systems, as well as rapid diagnostic assays, microbiology laboratory automation products, and plated media products; and fluorescence-activated cell sorters and analyzers, antibodies and kits, reagent systems, and solutions for high-throughput single-cell gene expression analysis, as well as clinical oncology, immunological, and transplantation diagnostic/monitoring reagents and analyzers. The company's BD Interventional segment offers hernia and soft tissue repair, biological and bioresorbable grafts, biosurgery, and other surgical products; surgical infection prevention, surgical and laparoscopic instrumentation products; peripheral intervention products; and urology and critical care products. Becton, Dickinson and Company was founded in 1897 and is based in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. offers life sciences solutions, analytical instruments, specialty diagnostics, and laboratory products and service worldwide. The company's Life Sciences Solutions segment offers reagents, instruments, and consumables for biological and medical research, discovery, and production of drugs and vaccines, as well as diagnosis of infections and diseases to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, agricultural, clinical, healthcare, academic, and government markets. Its Analytical Instruments segment provides instruments, consumables, software, and services for use in laboratory, on production line, and in field for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, academic, government, environmental, and other research and industrial markets, as well as clinical laboratories. The company's Specialty Diagnostics segment offers liquid, ready-to-use, and lyophilized immunodiagnostic reagent kits, as well as calibrators, controls, and calibration verification fluids; ImmunoCAP for allergy and asthma tests, and EliA for autoimmunity tests; dehydrated and prepared culture media, collection and transport systems, instrumentation, and consumables; human leukocyte antigen typing and testing for organ transplant market; and healthcare products. Its Laboratory Products and Services segment provides laboratory refrigerators and freezers, ultralow-temperature freezers, and cryopreservation storage tanks; temperature control, sample preparation and preservation, centrifugation, and biological safety cabinet products; water analysis instruments; laboratory plastics products; laboratory chemicals; and pharma services. The company offers products and services through a direct sales force, customer-service professionals, electronic commerce, third-party distributors, and catalogs. It has a strategic alliance with the University of California, San Francisco. The company was incorporated in 1956 and is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Latest BDX
- BD Advances Intelligent Robotics to Transform the Future of Pharmacy Care at Fairview
- EVP & Chief Financial Officer Roque Vitor covered exercise/tax liability with 190 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 2% to 8,041 units (SEC Form 4) (withholding tax)
- EVP, Chief Revenue Officer Feld Michael sold $31,101 worth of shares (165 units at $188.49) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 0.83% to 19,720 units (SEC Form 4)
- BD Extends Leadership in Advanced Tissue Regeneration Through Continued Clinical Innovation
- BD to Present at Wells Fargo 21st Annual Healthcare Conference
- EVP, Chief Revenue Officer Feld Michael covered exercise/tax liability with 1,049 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 5% to 19,885 units (SEC Form 4) (for withholding tax)
- BD Appoints Gary Sorsher as Chief Quality Officer; Jeff Silvestri to Retire
- Chairman, CEO and President Polen Thomas E Jr exercised 43,278 shares at a strike of $167.25, returned $7,238,310 worth of shares to the company (39,126 units at $185.00) and sold $768,120 worth of shares (4,152 units at $185.00) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan (SEC Form 4)
- EVP and President, EMEA Goette Roland sold $440,888 worth of shares (2,438 units at $180.84), decreasing direct ownership by 14% to 14,856 units (SEC Form 4)
- BD Accelerates Advanced Tissue Regeneration Strategy with Landmark PREVENT Trial
Latest TMO
- Thermo Fisher upgraded by UBS with a new price target
- CLSA initiated coverage on Thermo Fisher with a new price target
- Executive Vice President Shafer Michael D covered exercise/tax liability with 790 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 4% to 20,204 units (SEC Form 4)
- SVP and General Counsel Shropshire Thomas B Jr. covered exercise/tax liability with 49 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 0.81% to 6,008 units (SEC Form 4)
- Sr. VP and Chief HR Officer Britt Lisa P. covered exercise/tax liability with 394 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 3% to 14,391 units (SEC Form 4)
- Sr. Vice President & CFO Meyer James covered exercise/tax liability with 270 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 5% to 5,560 units (SEC Form 4)
- Chairman & CEO Casper Marc N covered exercise/tax liability with 1,257 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 1% to 122,669 units (SEC Form 4)
- VP & Chief Accounting Officer Holmes Joseph R. covered exercise/tax liability with 50 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 2% to 2,916 units (SEC Form 4)
- President & COO Pettiti Gianluca covered exercise/tax liability with 1,035 shares, sold $2,539,233 worth of shares (4,133 units at $614.38) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan and exercised 3,733 shares at a strike of $309.63, decreasing direct ownership by 6% to 23,216 units (SEC Form 4)
- Thermo Fisher Scientific to Present at the Morgan Stanley 24th Annual Global Healthcare Conference on September 15, 2026