BDX Insider Buying & Government Contracts (2026)

BDX insider buying and selling over the past year

Insiders at BECTON DICKINSON & CO only sold stock in the open market over the past year: 11 Form 4 sales totaling $763.8K, against no open-market purchases.

Most of the selling was pre-scheduled: 8 of the 11 sales (72.7%) were flagged as Rule 10b5-1 plan trades, which are set up in advance and say less about an insider's current view than discretionary sales. Activity clustered in 2025-12 (3 trades) and 2026-01 (2 trades); the latest filing in this window is dated 2026-09-28. The average open-market sale price was $195.05; the last close of $191.75 is 1.7% below that level, so sellers exited above the current price. The single largest trade was a sale of 1,610 shares worth $334.0K on 2026-01-15. Since the most recent filing the stock has moved +4.3%, from $183.83.

Where BDX trades relative to its one-year range

BECTON DICKINSON & CO closed at $191.75 on 2026-10-16, inside a one-year range of $138.67 to $193.76. That puts the stock near the top of its range, at 96.4% of the distance from low to high. Over one year the share price moved +31.6%, and over roughly three months +21.2%. Average daily volume over the last month was about 1,798,809 shares.

Across 83 companies in the same SEC industry group (SIC 38) with a full year of prices in Gemral Edge, the median one-year return was +13.2%. BDX is ahead of that median and beat 75% of that peer group on this measure.

Members of Congress who traded BDX

STOCK Act disclosures show 44 trades in BDX by 11 members of Congress over five years (17 purchases, 27 sales), most recently on 2026-09-11. The most active traders were Ro Khanna (D-CA), 30 trades; Thomas H. Kean, Jr. (R-NJ), 3 trades; Lisa C. McClain (R-MI), 2 trades; Robert P. Bresnahan, Jr. (R-PA), 2 trades; Alan Armstrong (R-OK), 1 trade.

By party the trades split 32 by Democrats, 12 by Republicans; by chamber, 42 from the House, 2 from the Senate.

BDX lobbying disclosures

BECTON DICKINSON & CO appears in 1 Lobbying Disclosure Act filings between 2018 and 2018, with $450.0K in reported lobbying spend.

Compare BDX with indexed peers from the same industry group

These peers have full Gemral Edge dossiers and the closest one-year price move to BDX:

• WAT one-year return +30.5%
• DXCM one-year return +29.7%
• AME one-year return +34.5%
• TMO one-year return +28.5%
• A one-year return +22.6%

Sources and method

Every figure above is computed from public filings stored in Gemral Edge, not estimated. Insider figures count only open-market purchases and sales reported on SEC Form 4; option exercises, grants and gifts are excluded because they do not reflect a decision to buy or sell at market prices.

• SEC EDGAR Form 4 (edge_insider_trades, codes P/S open-market only) — as of 2026-09-28
• edge_prices_eod (end-of-day close) — as of 2026-10-16
• House PTR / Senate eFD disclosures (edge_congress_trades) — as of 2026-09-11
• Senate LDA filings (edge_lobbying_filings)

BDX data questions

Are BDX insiders buying or selling stock?

Insiders at BECTON DICKINSON & CO only sold stock in the open market over the past year: 11 Form 4 sales totaling $763.8K, against no open-market purchases.

What is the one-year price range for BDX?

Based on end-of-day closes through 2026-10-16, BDX traded between $138.67 and $193.76, last closing at $191.75.

Has any member of Congress traded BDX stock?

Yes. 11 members disclosed 44 trades in BDX over five years; the most recent disclosed trade date is 2026-09-11.