Execution of BD 2025 Strategy Driving Durable, Broad-Based Growth

• Q4 revenue of $5.1 billion increased 6.8% as reported and 5.9% on a currency-neutral basis
• Q4 revenue from base business (which excludes COVID-only diagnostic testing) grew 7.3% as reported, 6.3% currency-neutral or 7.0% organic
• Q4 GAAP and adjusted diluted EPS from continuing operations of $0.53 and $3.42, respectively
• FY23 revenue of $19.4 billion increased 2.7% as reported and 4.5% on a currency-neutral basis
• FY23 revenue from base business grew 5.1% as reported, 7.0% currency-neutral or 5.8% organic
• FY23 GAAP and adjusted diluted EPS from continuing operations of $5.10 and $12.21, respectively
• Company issues FY24 guidance including 5.75% organic revenue growth at midpoint of 5.25% to 6.25% range; announces 52nd consecutive year of dividend increases

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., Nov. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced results for its fourth quarter and full year of fiscal 2023, which ended September 30, 2023.

"We achieved another quarter, and another year, of strong performance through our talented team's execution of our BD2025 strategy and differentiated portfolio of medical technologies that are increasing healthcare efficiency and improving the lives of patients around the world," said Tom Polen, chairman, CEO and president of BD. "Looking ahead, continued execution of our category leadership strategy in higher-growth markets, advancement of our strong innovation pipeline and delivery against our simplification programs position us well to deliver durable growth in fiscal 2024 and beyond."

Recent Business and ESG Highlights

• BD Medical:
  • The Medication Management Solutions business unit began shipping the updated BD Alaris™ Infusion System at the end of September as part of its remediation process.
  • The Medication Delivery Solutions business unit advanced its "One-Stick Hospital Stay" vision with the launch of its next-generation needle-free blood draw technology. With FDA 510(k) clearance, the new PIVO™ Pro Needle-free Blood Collection Device delivers the first and only compatibility with integrated catheters, including the new Nexiva™ Closed IV Catheter System with NearPort™ IV Access, bringing an elevated standard of care to more U.S. hospitals.
• BD Life Sciences:
  • The Integrated Diagnostics Solutions business unit received FDA 510(k) clearance for the BD Respiratory Viral Panel for BD MAX™ System, a single molecular diagnostic combination test that identifies and distinguishes COVID-19, Influenza A/B and RSV.
• BD Interventional:
  • The Peripheral Intervention business unit began investigation of the safety and effectiveness of the BD Liverty™ Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt (TIPS) Stent Graft to reduce complications associated with portal hypertension with first patient enrollment in the ARCH study.
• Ranked in the top 10 for overall transparency and awarded Best Code of Conduct among S&P 250 companies in the fifth annual U.S. Transparency Awards by Labrador.
• Named among the 100 Best Corporate Citizens of 2023 by 3BL and top two in the health care equipment and services industry.
• Completed industry-first circular economy pilot, partnering with Casella Waste Systems, Inc. to manage discarded needles and syringes that led to 40,000 pounds of medical waste being recycled.

Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2023 Operating Results

Geographic Results

Segment Results

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

• MDS performance reflects softness in China driven by market dynamics including volume-based procurement. This was partially offset by strong performance in Catheter Solutions in North America and Europe through continued execution of our Vascular Access Management strategy.
• MMS performance reflects double-digit growth in Dispensing driven by BD Pyxis™ which focuses on improving workflows and efficiencies, and double-digit growth in Pharmacy Automation, driven by our Parata and BD ROWA™ solutions that help pharmacies address rising costs and labor shortages.
• PS performance reflects continued strong demand for pre-fillable solutions for biologics such as BD Hypak™ and innovative products like BD Neopak™, partially offset by a slowdown in China exports of anticoagulants.

The BD Life Sciences segment includes the Integrated Diagnostic Solutions (IDS) and Biosciences (BDB) business units. BD Life Sciences performance reflects solid growth in the base business and a decline, as expected, in COVID-only testing revenues.

• IDS base business performance reflects high single-digit growth in our Microbiology platform driven by continued adoption of our BD Kiestra™ Total Modular Track solutions and strong ID/AST instrument placements, and continued strong growth from Molecular IVD assays leveraging the BD COR™ System and the incremental BD Max™ System installed base. This growth was partially offset by the comparison to the prior year COVID-related recovery in China and a decline in Specimen Management that was driven by distributor and customer stocking in the prior year.
• BDB performance reflects advancement of our category leadership in flow cytometry supported by double-digit growth in Research Instruments driven by strong demand for our recently launched BD FACSDiscover™ S8 Cell Sorter, and double-digit growth in Clinical Reagents leveraging our growing installed base of FACSLyric™ analyzers and FACSDuet™ automation.

The BD Interventional segment includes the Surgery, Peripheral Intervention (PI), and Urology & Critical Care (UCC) business units. BD Interventional performance was driven by strong growth across the segment.

• Surgery performance reflects double-digit growth in Advanced Repair and Reconstruction, driven by continued market adoption of the Phasix™ hernia resorbable scaffold, and double-digit growth in Infection Prevention, driven by strong demand for ChloraPrep™ and aided by the comparison to prior-year distributor inventory reductions. The unit's performance also reflects the impact from the divestiture of the Surgical Instrumentation platform.
• PI performance reflects double-digit growth in Peripheral Vascular Disease that was driven by global penetration of the Rotarex™ Atherectomy System, and strong performance in our Venous portfolio in China. Growth was aided by improved supply and distribution stabilization in EMEA following a new ERP implementation in fiscal 2022.
• UCC performance reflects double-digit growth in our PureWick™ solutions for chronic incontinence, driven by continued adoption in both the acute care and alternative care settings. The unit's performance also reflects double-digit growth in Targeted Temperature Management driven by market development, and Endourology, which reflects the success of the Aptra™ Digital Endoscope System.

Assumptions and Outlook for Full Year Fiscal 2024

The company provided the following guidance with respect to fiscal 2024.

• The company expects fiscal year 2024 revenues to be in the range of approximately $20.1 billion to $20.3 billion.
  • Organic revenue growth is expected to be 5.25% to 6.25% including a headwind of over 25 basis points from the expected decline in COVID-only diagnostic testing.
  • Total currency-neutral revenue growth is expected to be 4.5% to 5.5%. This reflects a negative impact of approximately 75 basis points from the impact of the Surgical Instrumentation platform divestiture.
  • Based on current rates, foreign exchange represents a reduction of approximately 75 basis points to total company revenue growth.
• The company expects fiscal year 2024 adjusted diluted EPS to be $12.70 to $13.00, which represents growth of approximately 4% to 6.5%. This includes absorbing an estimated 75 basis point negative impact from the divestiture of the Surgical Instrumentation platform and approximately 375 basis-points negative impact from foreign currency based on current rates.
  • On a currency-neutral basis, adjusted diluted EPS guidance represents growth of approximately 8.25% to 10.25%.

BD's outlook for fiscal 2024 reflects numerous assumptions about many factors that could affect its business, based on the information management has reviewed as of this date. Management will discuss its outlook and several of its assumptions on its fourth fiscal quarter earnings call.

The company's expected adjusted diluted EPS for fiscal 2024 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-related costs, 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. We also present our estimated revenue, organic revenue growth and adjusted diluted EPS growth for our 2024 fiscal year after adjusting for the anticipated impact of foreign currency translation. BD believes that this adjustment allows investors to better evaluate BD's anticipated underlying earnings performance for our 2024 fiscal year in relation to our underlying 2023 fiscal year performance.

Conference Call and Presentation Materials
BD will host an audio webcast today for the public, investors, analysts, and news media to discuss its fourth quarter results. The audio webcast will be broadcast live on BD's website, www.bd.com/investors at 8 a.m. (ET) Thursday, November 9, 2023. Accompanying slides will be available on BD's website, www.bd.com/investors at approximately 6:30 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 800-688-7339 (domestic) and 402-220-1347 (international) through the close of business on Thursday, November 16, 2023. A confirmation number is not needed to access the replay.

Basis of Presentation — Continuing Operations
On April 1, 2022, the Company completed the spin-off of its Diabetes Care business as a separate publicly traded company named Embecta Corp. The historical results of the Diabetes Care business are now accounted for as discontinued operations.

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, adjusted diluted earnings per share, base revenue, base revenue growth rates and base organic revenue growth rates on a currency-neutral basis. 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 to 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.

We present adjusted diluted earnings per share for the fourth quarter and full fiscal year 2023, and the corresponding prior periods, after eliminating items we believe are not part of our ordinary operations and affect the comparability of the periods presented. Adjusted diluted earnings per share includes adjustments for the impact of purchase accounting adjustments, integration and restructuring costs, spin related costs, certain regulatory costs, certain product remediation costs, certain product liability and legal defense costs, certain investment gains and losses, certain asset impairment charges, certain pension settlement costs, gain on sale of business and the impact of the extinguishment of debt. In particular, current and prior-year adjusted diluted earnings per share results exclude European regulatory initiative-related costs, which represent costs incurred to develop processes and systems to establish initial compliance with the European Union Medical Device Regulation and the European Union In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Device Regulation (collectively, the "New EU Medical Devices Regulations"), which represent a significant, unusual change to the existing regulatory framework. We consider the excluded European regulatory initiative-related costs to be duplicative of previously incurred costs and/or one-off costs related to establishing initial compliance with such regulatory regimes, and in each case are limited to a specific period of time. These expenses relate to establishing initial compliance with the New EU Medical Devices Regulations and include the cost of labor, other services and consulting (in particular, research and development and clinical trials) and supplies, travel and other miscellaneous costs. These costs were recorded in Cost of products sold and Research and development expense.

We also present revenue growth rates for the fourth quarter and full fiscal year 2023 over the corresponding prior periods on a currency-neutral basis after eliminating the effect of foreign currency translation, where applicable. We also show the growth in adjusted diluted earnings per share compared to the prior year periods after eliminating the impact of foreign currency translation to further enable investors to evaluate BD's underlying earnings performance compared to the prior periods. 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. As exchange rates are an important factor in understanding period-to-period comparisons, we believe the presentation of results on a foreign currency-neutral basis in addition to reported results helps improve investors' ability to understand our operating results and evaluate our performance in comparison to prior periods.

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 more than 70,000 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 on X (formerly known as Twitter) @BDandCo.

This press release and accompanying audio webcast on November 9, 2023 contain 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. 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 such forward-looking statements, a number of factors could cause actual results to vary materially. These factors include, but are not limited to, risks relating to macroeconomic conditions and their impact on our operations and healthcare spending generally, including any impact of disruptions in the global supply chain on our ability to source raw materials, components and energy sources needed to produce our products, labor constraints or disputes, inflationary pressures, currency rate fluctuations, and increased interest rates and borrowing costs; conditions in international markets, including geopolitical developments such as the ongoing situations in Russia and Ukraine, the Middle East and Asia,  which could adversely impact our operations; competitive factors including technological advances and new products or novel medical therapies introduced by competitors; increases in energy costs and their effect on, among other things, the cost of producing BD's products; 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, sanctions, changes in tax laws, new environmental laws and regulations (such as those related to climate change or materials of concern), new cybersecurity or privacy laws or changes in laws impacting international trade or anti-corruption and bribery), or changes in reporting requirements or enforcement practices with respect to such laws; increased labor costs and labor shortages; 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 or governmental or private measures to contain healthcare costs, such as China's volume-based procurement tender process or changes in pricing and reimbursement policies, which could result in reduced demand for our products or downward pricing pressure; adverse changes in regional, national or foreign economic conditions, including any impact on our ability to access credit markets and finance our operations; the adverse impact of cyberattacks on our information systems or products; risks relating to our overall indebtedness; the possible impact of public health crises on our business and the global healthcare system, which could decrease demand for our products, disrupt our operations or the operations of our customers and companies within our supply chain, or increase transportation costs; interruptions in our manufacturing or sterilization processes or those of our third-party providers, including any restrictions placed on the use of ethylene oxide for sterilization; pricing and market pressures; difficulties inherent in product development, delays in product introductions and uncertainty of market acceptance of new products; the overall timing of the replacement or remediation of the BD Alaris™ Infusion System and return to market in the U.S., which may be impacted by, among other things, customer readiness, supply continuity and our continued engagement with the FDA; 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 ("SEC")); and the issuance of new or revised accounting standards, as well as other factors discussed in BD's filings with the SEC. In addition, we have made certain assumptions in making these forward-looking statements. 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.

Contacts:
Investors: Adam Reiffe, Sr. Director, Investor Relations - 201-847-6927
Media: Troy Kirkpatrick, VP, Public Relations - 858-617-2361

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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