Becton Dickinson and Co vs Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF — how do they compare? Becton Dickinson and Co trades at $180.75 (market cap $49.41B), while Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF trades at $382.1. The key difference: Becton Dickinson and Co pays a 2.32% dividend while Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF pays none, and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF is trading nearer its 52-week high, Becton Dickinson and Co nearer its low. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| BDX | VTI | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $49.41B | — |
Sector | Health | — |
52-Week High | $185.39 | $381.78 |
52-Week Low | $138.62 | $311.68 |
Enterprise Value | $65.51B | — |
Dividend Yield | 2.32% | — |
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Becton, Dickinson is the world's largest manufacturer and distributor of medical surgical products, such as needles, syringes, and sharps-disposal units. The company also manufactures diagnostic instruments and reagents, as well as flow cytometry and cell-imaging systems. BD Interventional (largely the former Bard business) accounts for 23% of revenue. International revenue accounts for 44% of the company's business.
Read more on BDX →The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the index, which represents approximately 100% of the investable US stock market and includes large-, mid-, small-, and micro-cap stocks. It invests by sampling the index, meaning that it holds a broadly diversified collection of securities that, in the aggregate, approximates the full index in terms of key characteristics.
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