---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-25-035307"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BDX"
cik: "0000010795"
company_name: "BECTON DICKINSON & CO"
filed_at: "2025-09-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T06:12:23.725581+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# BDX enters into $2.75B revolving credit facility due 2030

## Summary
- $2.75B senior unsecured revolving credit facility, with $100M letter of credit and $236M swingline subfacilities.
- Facility expires September 2030, extendable for up to two additional one-year periods.
- Leverage ratio covenant: max 4.25:1.00 (or 4.75:1.00 for five quarters post material acquisition).
- Borrowing rates based on Term SOFR plus Applicable Margin ranging from 0.80% to 1.30%.
- Facility replaces prior 2023 credit agreement; general corporate purposes; BDX subsidiary co-borrower.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-25-035307
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BDX
- cik: 0000010795
- company_name: BECTON DICKINSON & CO
- filed_at: 2025-09-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/10795/000114036125035307/0001140361-25-035307-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/10795/000114036125035307/ef20055689_8k.htm

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