FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., Feb. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced results for its first quarter of fiscal year 2022, which ended December 31, 2021.

"Our first quarter results reflect continued execution of our BD2025 strategy and strong base business performance from all three segments. Through our focused execution we are driving meaningful revenue growth and improving margins, and we remain uniquely positioned to deliver value during an uncertain environment," said Tom Polen, chairman, CEO and president of BD. "We continue to advance our innovation pipeline and tuck-in M&A strategy, strengthening our leadership position in our durable core and adding transformative solutions to our portfolio. As we look forward, we are confident in our ability to deliver on our commitments and are well-positioned to create long-term growth and value for all our stakeholders."

Recent Business Highlights

BD continues to advance its innovation-driven growth strategy, tuck-in M&A and ESG initiatives. Recent highlights include:

• New BD innovation in flow cytometry: Profiled in cover story of January issue of Science magazine, demonstrating landmark advancement in flow cytometry technology with potential to transform a wide range of disciplines from immunology and genomics research to cell-based therapeutics.
• BD Kiestra™ IdentifA: Received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. FDA. Designed to automate the preparation of microbiology bacterial identification testing using smart connected robotics.
• BD COR™ MX: Received CE Mark for infectious disease testing and is final module introduced on the BD COR™ System, expanding fully-automated high-throughput molecular diagnostic platform for core labs.
• BD Veritor™ At-Home COVID-19 Test: New distribution and retail partners announced.
• Completed the acquisitions of Scanwell Health Inc., to expand and scale digital at-home testing, Venclose Inc., marking BD's entry point to the treatment of chronic venous insufficiency, and Tissuemed, Ltd., adding an innovative, broadly applicable surgical sealant to BD's suite of biosurgery products, and Cytognos, to expand from cancer discovery and diagnosis into post-treatment monitoring.
• Released its inaugural Global Inclusion, Diversity and Equity (ID&E) report, highlighting the progress BD is making toward its ESG strategy.
• Published its 2021 Cybersecurity Annual report, the only MedTech company to do so.
• Named One of America's Most Just Companies in the annual JUST 100 Ranking.
• Included in the 2022 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI) and also named a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality by The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation after receiving a perfect score (100%) on the organization's Corporate Equality Index (CEI).

First Quarter Fiscal 2022 Operating Results

Geographic Results

Segment Results

First fiscal quarter revenue growth across the segments was driven by strong base business performance. 

The BD Medical segment includes the Medication Delivery Solutions (MDS), Medication Management Solutions (MMS),  Pharmaceutical Systems (PS), and Diabetes Care (DC) business units. BD Medical revenue growth was driven by strong performance in MDS and PS. 

• MDS performance reflects strong growth in the U.S., particularly catheters and vascular care products.
• MMS performance reflects the anticipated decline in the infusion business due to high demand for infusion pumps in the prior year in the U.S. and Europe that was partially offset by strong demand in the dispensing platform.
• PS performance reflects continued strong demand for pre-fillable devices enabled by capacity expansion.
• DC performance reflects category leadership aided by the timing of certain customer orders in the U.S.

The BD Life Sciences segment includes the Integrated Diagnostic Solutions (IDS) and Biosciences (BDB) business units. BD Life Sciences performance reflects the decline in COVID-only testing revenues, partially offset by growth in the base business of 16.7% as reported and 17.2% on a currency-neutral basis. 

• IDS performance reflects a decline in COVID-only testing revenues to $185 million from $866 million in the prior year, partially offset by growth in the base business of 19.8% as reported, and 20.3% on a currency-neutral basis. Base business growth was driven by continued recovery in demand for specimen management products and microbiology solutions, licensing revenues, and demand for combination flu/COVID-19 diagnostic tests.
• BDB performance reflects continued strong demand for research solutions driven by the recovery in lab activity and continued COVID-19 research.

The BD Interventional segment includes the Surgery, Peripheral Intervention (PI), and Urology & Critical Care (UCC) business units. BD Interventional revenue growth reflects strong performance in Surgery and UCC. 

• Surgery performance reflects growth across the hernia, biosurgery and infection prevention platforms as deferrable procedure volumes recovered compared to the prior year and was also aided by the recent acquisition of Tepha.
• PI performance reflects the impact of a fiscal 2021 product recall, supply chain disruptions and planned product line discontinuations to support portfolio simplification and margin enhancement, partially offset by continued strong performance in atherectomy, particularly in China, and the benefit from the recent acquisition of Venclose.
• UCC performance was driven by continued strong demand for acute urology products.

Assumptions and Outlook for Full Year Fiscal 2022

The company raised its full year revenue and adjusted EPS guidance. 

• The company now expects fiscal year 2022 revenues to be in the range of $19.55 billion to $19.75 billion, which reflects an increase of approximately $250 million compared to approximately $19.3 billion to $19.5 billion previously announced.
• Revenue guidance for fiscal year 2022 now assumes base business currency-neutral revenue growth of 5.75% to 6.75%, compared to 5% to 6% previously announced, which represents an increase of approximately $150 million.
• In addition, the revenue guidance range now assumes approximately $450 million in COVID-19-only diagnostic testing revenues, which is an increase of $250 million compared to approximately $200 million previously announced.
• Based on current rates, foreign exchange would represent a headwind of approximately 125 basis points to total company revenue growth compared to approximately 50 basis points previously announced, which represents an incremental headwind of approximately $150 million.
• The company now expects fiscal year 2022 adjusted diluted EPS to be $12.80 to $13.00, including an incremental headwind of approximately $0.10 from foreign currency, compared to $12.30 to $12.50 previously.

BD's outlook for fiscal 2022 reflects numerous assumptions about many factors that could affect its business, based on the information management has reviewed as of this date, which includes assumptions regarding the continued recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.  Among other things, the company's outlook continues to assume no extended major system-wide hospital restrictions on deferrable procedures related to the COVID-19 pandemic.  Management will discuss its outlook and several of its assumptions on its first fiscal quarter earnings call.

The company's expected adjusted diluted EPS for fiscal 2022 excludes potential charges or gains that may be recorded during the fiscal year, such as, among other things, the non-cash amortization of intangible assets, acquisition-related charges, spin-off related charges, and certain tax matters.  BD does not attempt to provide reconciliations of forward-looking adjusted diluted non-GAAP EPS guidance to the comparable GAAP measure because the impact and timing of these potential charges or gains is inherently uncertain and difficult to predict and is unavailable without unreasonable efforts.  In addition, the company believes such reconciliations would imply a degree of precision and certainty that could be confusing to investors.  Such items could have a substantial impact on GAAP measures of BD's financial performance.

Conference Call and Presentation Materials
BD will host an audio webcast today for the public, investors, analysts, and news media to discuss its first quarter results. The audio webcast will be broadcast live on BD's website, www.bd.com/investors at 8 a.m. (ET) Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022.  Accompanying slides will be available on BD's website, www.bd.com/investors at approximately 6 a.m. (ET).  The conference call will be available for replay on BD's website, www.bd.com/investors. Alternatively you can dial into the replay at 1-800-839-1246 (domestic) and 1-402-220-0464 (international) through the close of business on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022.  A confirmation number is not needed to access the replay.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures/Financial Tables
This news release contains certain non-GAAP financial measures.  These include revenue growth rates on a currency-neutral basis and adjusted diluted earnings per share.  These non-GAAP financial measures are not in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States.  BD management believes that the use of non-GAAP measures to adjust for items that are considered by management to be outside of BD's underlying operational results or that affect period to period comparability helps investors to gain a better understanding of our performance year-over-year, to analyze underlying trends in our businesses, to analyze our base operating results, and understand future prospects.  Management uses these non-GAAP financial measures to measure and forecast the company's performance, especially when comparing such results to previous periods or forecasts.  We believe presenting such adjusted metrics provides investors with greater transparency to the information used by BD management for its operational decision-making and for comparison for other companies within the medical technology industry.  Although BD's management believes non-GAAP results are useful in evaluating the performance of its business, its reliance on these measures is limited since items excluded from such measures may have a material impact on BD's net income, earnings per share or cash flows calculated in accordance with GAAP.  Therefore, management typically uses non-GAAP results in conjunction with GAAP results to address these limitations.  BD strongly encourages investors to review its consolidated financial statements and publicly filed reports in their entirety and cautions investors that the non-GAAP measures used by BD may differ from similar measures used by other companies, even when similar terms are used to identify such measures.  Non-GAAP measures should not be considered replacements for, and should be read together with, the most comparable GAAP financial measures.

Current and prior-year adjusted diluted earnings per share results exclude, among other things, the impact of purchase accounting adjustments, integration and restructuring costs, spin-off related charges, certain transaction gains and losses, certain legal defense and product remediation costs, certain regulatory costs, certain investment gains and losses, the impact of the extinguishment of debt and the dilutive impact of outstanding preferred stock.

We also provide these measures, as well as revenues, on a currency-neutral basis after eliminating the effect of foreign currency translation, where applicable.  We calculate foreign currency-neutral percentages by converting our current-period local currency financial results using the prior period foreign currency exchange rates and comparing these adjusted amounts to our current-period results.

Reconciliations of these and other non-GAAP measures to the comparable GAAP measures are included in the attached financial tables.  Within the attached financial tables presented, certain columns and rows may not add due to the use of rounded numbers. Percentages and earnings per share amounts presented are calculated from the underlying amounts.

About BD
BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world and is advancing the world of health by improving medical discovery, diagnostics and the delivery of care.  The company supports the heroes on the frontlines of health care by developing innovative technology, services and solutions that help advance both clinical therapy for patients and clinical process for health care providers. BD and its 75,000 employees have a passion and commitment to help enhance the safety and efficiency of clinicians' care delivery process, enable laboratory scientists to accurately detect disease and advance researchers' capabilities to develop the next generation of diagnostics and therapeutics.  BD has a presence in virtually every country and partners with organizations around the world to address some of the most challenging global health issues.  By working in close collaboration with customers, BD can help enhance outcomes, lower costs, increase efficiencies, improve safety and expand access to health care.  For more information on BD, please visit bd.com or connect with us on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/bd1/ and Twitter @BDandCo.

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This press release contains certain estimates and other forward-looking statements (as defined under Federal securities laws) regarding BD's future prospects and performance, including, but not limited to, future revenues and earnings per share and capital deployment.  All such statements are based upon current expectations of BD and involve a number of business risks and uncertainties.  Actual results could vary materially from anticipated results described, implied or projected in any forward-looking statement.  With respect to forward-looking statements contained herein, a number of factors could cause actual results to vary materially.  These factors include, but are not limited to, risks relating to any impact of the current disruptions in the global supply chain on our operations, including our ability to source raw materials and components needed to manufacture our products and inflationary pressures; the possible impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business and the global healthcare system (including decreases in the demand for our products, any disruptions to our operations (including the impact of employee absenteeism) and our supply chain, and factors such as vaccine utilization rates, the rate of infections, the emergence of new variants and competitive factors that could impact the demand and pricing for our COVID-19 diagnostics testing); product efficacy or safety concerns resulting in product recalls or actions being taken with respect to our products; new or changing laws and regulations impacting our business (including the imposition of tariffs, changes in tax laws, new environmental laws and regulations, or changes in laws impacting international trade) or changes in enforcement practices with respect to such laws; labor shortages and increased labor costs; our suppliers' ability to provide products needed for our operations and BD's ability to maintain favorable supplier arrangements and relationships; legislative or regulatory changes to the U.S. or foreign healthcare systems, potential cuts in governmental healthcare spending (including China's volume-based procurement tender process) or governmental or private measures to contain healthcare costs, including changes in pricing and reimbursement policies, each of which could result in reduced demand for our products or downward pricing pressure; changes in interest or foreign currency exchange rates; adverse changes in regional, national or foreign economic conditions, including inflation, deflation and fluctuations in interest rates, particularly in emerging markets, including any impact on our ability to access credit markets and finance our operations; the adverse impact of cyber-attacks on our information systems or products; competitive factors including technological advances and new products introduced by competitors; risks relating to our overall indebtedness; interruptions in our manufacturing or sterilization processes; pricing and market pressures; difficulties inherent in product development, delays in product introductions and uncertainty of market acceptance of new products; adverse changes in geopolitical conditions; increases in energy costs and their effect on, among other things, the cost of producing BD's products; the remediation of our infusion pump business (including risks relating to our ability to obtain regulatory clearance and market acceptance of the BD Alaris™ System); our ability to achieve our projected level or mix of product sales; our ability to successfully integrate any businesses we acquire; uncertainties of litigation and/or investigations and/or subpoenas (as described in BD's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission); and the issuance of new or revised accounting standards, as well as other factors discussed in BD's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.  In addition, we have made certain assumptions in making these forward-looking statements, particularly regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. If any of these assumptions are incorrect, BD's actual results could differ materially from those described in these forward-looking statements. We do not intend to update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof except as required by applicable laws or regulations

Contact:
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