Becton, Dickinson and Company Pension and Postretirement Benefit Liabilities decreased by 3.8% to $1.03B in Q1 2026 compared to the prior quarter. Year-over-year, this metric grew by 17.8%, from $871.00M to $1.03B. Over 5 years (FY 2020 to FY 2025), Pension and Postretirement Benefit Liabilities shows a downward trend with a -6.5% CAGR. This is a positive signal — lower values indicate better performance for this metric.
An increase indicates a growing long-term liability, often driven by changes in interest rates or demographic shifts in the workforce.
This represents the present value of the company's obligations to provide pension and other post-employment benefits to...
Significant for legacy industrial companies with large, unionized, or long-tenured workforces.
pension_and_postretirement_benefit_liabilities| Q2 '21 | Q3 '21 | Q4 '21 | Q1 '22 | Q2 '22 | Q3 '22 | Q4 '22 | Q1 '23 | Q2 '23 | Q3 '23 | Q4 '23 | Q1 '24 | Q2 '24 | Q3 '24 | Q4 '24 | Q1 '25 | Q2 '25 | Q3 '25 | Q4 '25 | Q1 '26 | |
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| Value | $1.42B | $1.23B | $1.08B | $1.05B | $1.01B | $902.00M | $902.00M | $920.00M | $904.00M | $1.02B | $894.00M | $890.00M | $907.00M | $942.00M | $939.00M | $871.00M | $908.00M | $1.03B | $1.07B | $1.03B |
| QoQ Change | — | -13.6% | -12.2% | -2.8% | -3.7% | -10.6% | +0.0% | +2.0% | -1.7% | +13.2% | -12.6% | -0.4% | +1.9% | +3.9% | -0.3% | -7.2% | +4.2% | +13.1% | +3.9% | -3.8% |
| YoY Change | — | — | — | — | -29.0% | -26.5% | -16.3% | -12.2% | -10.4% | +13.4% | -0.9% | -3.3% | +0.3% | -7.9% | +5.0% | -2.1% | +0.1% | +9.0% | +13.6% | +17.8% |