Insider / BECTON DICKINSON & CO
Polen Thomas E Jr
Chairman, CEO and President at BECTON DICKINSON & CO
- Company
- BECTON DICKINSON & CO
- Ticker
- BDX
- First filing on record
- December 1, 2025
- Latest trade on record
- August 13, 2026
- SEC filings
- EDGAR ↗
Polen Thomas E Jr, Chairman, CEO and President at BECTON DICKINSON & CO, has disclosed 11 transactions in BDX since December 1, 2025: 0 purchases (0 open-market buys) and 5 sales, worth about $20.7M at the reported prices. The latest was filed August 14, 2026, 1 day after the trade; 3 filings were late against the 2-business-day Form 4 deadline.
Trading in charts
Trade timeline
When does this person trade, how big, and in which direction? Every trade in the last 12 months.
In the last 12 months Polen Thomas E Jr made no purchases and 5 sales worth $11M, plus 6 other transactions. Dot size is the dollar amount.
Portfolio mix
Which stocks does this person trade most? Tile size is dollars traded, all time on record.
Polen Thomas E Jr has traded 1 stock on record; the largest by dollars is BDX.
Reporting lag
Does this person report on time? One bar per filing against the Form 4 deadline.
1 of 3 filings on record were reported after the Form 4 deadline (two business days, counted here as 4 calendar days).
What kind of transactions
Most Form 4 rows are pay arriving or tax being withheld, not a decision to buy or sell. Only code P is an open-market purchase and code S an open-market sale. What each code means: Form 4 transaction codes.
| Code | Meaning | Rows | Shares | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | Option exercise or conversion | 4 | 126,974 | $9.8M |
| A | Grant or award | 2 | 188,102 | — |
| D | Sale back to the company | 2 | 56,571 | $9.8M |
| S | Open-market sale | 2 | 6,916 | $1.2M |
| F | Shares withheld for tax | 1 | 17,421 | — |
| Year | Rows | Bought | Sold |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 8 | 0 | 4 · $11.0M |
| 2025 | 3 | 0 | 1 · $0 |
Transactions
| Security | Side | Trade date | Disclosed | Lag | Shares | Price | Value | Flags | Source | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BDX | Option / conversion M | August 13, 2026 | August 14, 2026 | 1d | 43,278 | — | — | 10b5-1 planderivative | Form 4 ↗ | |
| BDX | Sell S | August 13, 2026 | August 14, 2026 | 1d | 4,152 | $185 | $768K | 10b5-1 plan | Form 4 ↗ | |
| BDX | Sell D | August 13, 2026 | August 14, 2026 | 1d | 39,126 | $185 | $7.2M | 10b5-1 plan | Form 4 ↗ | |
| BDX | Option / conversion M | August 13, 2026 | August 14, 2026 | 1d | 43,278 | $167 | $7.2M | 10b5-1 plan | Form 4 ↗ | |
| BDX | Option / conversion M | June 1, 2026 | June 3, 2026 | 2d | 20,209 | — | — | 10b5-1 planderivative | Form 4 ↗ | |
| BDX | Sell S | June 1, 2026 | June 3, 2026 | 2d | 2,764 | $146 | $405K | 10b5-1 plan | Form 4 ↗ | |
| BDX | Sell D | June 1, 2026 | June 3, 2026 | 2d | 17,445 | $146 | $2.5M | 10b5-1 plan | Form 4 ↗ | |
| BDX | Option / conversion M | June 1, 2026 | June 3, 2026 | 2d | 20,209 | $126 | $2.5M | 10b5-1 plan | Form 4 ↗ | |
| BDX | Other A | November 26, 2025 | December 1, 2025 | 5d | 165,581 | — | — | latederivative | Form 4 ↗ | |
| BDX | Sell F | November 26, 2025 | December 1, 2025 | 5d | 17,421 | — | — | late | Form 4 ↗ | |
| BDX | Other A | November 26, 2025 | December 1, 2025 | 5d | 22,521 | — | — | late | Form 4 ↗ |
Filings
| Filed | Form | Accession | Rows | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 14, 2026 | Form 4 | 0001628280-26-057166 | 4 | published | EDGAR ↗ |
| June 3, 2026 | Form 4 | 0001628280-26-040095 | 4 | published | EDGAR ↗ |
| December 1, 2025 | Form 4 | 0001628280-25-054339 | 3 | published | EDGAR ↗ |
Other insiders at BECTON DICKINSON & CO
- Feld Michael EVP, Chief Revenue Officer 15 rows
- Garrison Michael David EVP & Pres Med.Essntl&BioPharm 11 rows
- Huffines Robert Luther Director 11 rows
- Henderson Jeffrey William Director 7 rows
- DelOrefice Christopher Chief Financial Officer 6 rows
- Brown William M Director 5 rows
- Byington Carrie L Director 5 rows
- Minnix Lanesha EVP and General Counsel 5 rows
- SCOTT BERTRAM L Director 5 rows
- Goette Roland EVP and President, EMEA 4 rows
Everyone on file, with contracts and lobbying under the company's name: BECTON DICKINSON & CO.
Guides for this page
- What is SEC Form 4? Who files: officers, directors and owners of more than 10% of a class of the company's shares.
- Form 4 transaction codes P = purchase. S = sale. These are the two market trades.
- Insider buying vs insider selling Selling outweighs buying by a wide margin in normal times.
- Rule 10b5-1 trading plans The plan must be set up when the insider has no important non-public information.
- Options and derivatives on Form 4 Table I = shares. Table II = options and other derivatives.
Sources and method
| Source | Filings | Rows | First filed | Newest filed | Read the originals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEC EDGAR, Form 4 | 3 | 11 | December 1, 2025 | August 14, 2026 | Form 4 list on EDGAR |
Site built October 22, 2026. Every row in the tables above links to its own filing. To quote a figure, use the Cite button at the top of the page; see how to cite and reuse.
Every row comes from the reporting owner's Form 4 as filed with the SEC (EDGAR ownership XML), read daily. "Value" is shares × the reported price; code P is an open-market purchase, S a sale, M an option exercise, A a grant. The lag is the filing date minus the trade date; Form 4 is due within two business days. Amendments (4/A) are not merged. Details on the methodology page; report an error on corrections.
Not investment advice. Figures are public disclosures shown as filed; they may lag the trade and may be amended later. No recommendation is made or implied.