Labcorp vs Becton Dickinson
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Burlington NC clinical laboratory services (NYSE: LH) ~$13.1B FY2024 revenue; Fortrea CRO spun off 2023, 2000+ PSC network, specialty oncology molecular testing competing with Quest Diagnostics.
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Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (Labcorp) is a Burlington, North Carolina-based clinical laboratory and life sciences company — publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: LH) as an S&P 500 Health Care component — providing diagnostic laboratory testing services for physicians, hospitals, health systems, and patients across the United States and internationally, and providing drug development laboratory services (biopharmaceutical clinical trial laboratory support) through approximately 60,000 employees. In fiscal year 2024, Labcorp reported revenues of approximately $13.1 billion from the Diagnostics segment — following the June 2023 separation of its Drug Development segment as Fortrea Holdings (NASDAQ: FTRE), an independent public company providing CRO (contract research organization) services to pharmaceutical and biotech clients. CEO Adam Schechter has focused the post-Fortrea Labcorp on the pure-play diagnostics business: clinical testing across 6,000+ test menu items (routine blood work, specialty genetic testing, toxicology, and anatomic pathology) processed at Labcorp's 2,000+ patient service centers and sent to regional and specialty reference laboratories for results reporting to ordering physicians. The Labcorp consumer-direct testing initiative (at-home specimen collection kits for STI testing, COVID testing, and other direct-to-consumer tests ordered at labcorp.com without physician referral) expands beyond the traditional physician-ordered testing model to capture the growing consumer health testing market. Labcorp's specialty testing portfolio (oncology genomic profiling, rare disease genetic panels, prenatal cell-free DNA testing, advanced cardiac biomarker panels) generates higher revenue per requisition than routine chemistry and hematology panels — driving mix shift toward specialty and molecular testing revenue.
Franklin Lakes NJ medical technology (NYSE: BDX) at $21.8B FY2025 revenue (+8.2%); $17.5B Reverse Morris Trust spinoff with Waters (2025), Edwards critical care acquisition $4.2B (2024) competing with Baxter for infusion systems.
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Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) is a Franklin Lakes, New Jersey-based global medical technology company — publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BDX) as an S&P 500 Health Care component — manufacturing and selling medical supplies, devices, laboratory equipment, and diagnostic products through approximately 74,000 employees serving healthcare institutions, clinical laboratories, pharmaceutical companies, and life science researchers in over 190 countries. In fiscal year 2025 (ended September 30, 2025), BD reported full-year revenue of $21.8 billion (up 8.2% year-over-year) with Q4 FY2025 revenue of $5.9 billion (+8.3% reported, +3.9% organic growth), and declared a quarterly dividend of $1.05 per share (+1%). Founded in 1897 in New York City by Maxwell Becton and Fairleigh Dickinson Sr. as a thermometer and surgical instrument maker, BD has grown through 125+ years of acquisitions to become a Fortune 500 ($21.8B revenue, #211 on 2024 Fortune 500) global medtech leader. The company operates through three segments: BD Medical (~50% of revenue, IV catheters, syringes, prefillable drug delivery systems, and medication management solutions), BD Life Sciences (flow cytometry, microbiology, molecular diagnostics, and lab automation), and BD Interventional (advanced patient monitoring, interventional cardiology, and peripheral vascular interventions). BD invests $1.2+ billion annually in R&D. In 2024, BD acquired Edwards Lifesciences' critical care monitoring unit for $4.2 billion.
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