Valuation

BAXBaxter International

StockNYSEUnited StatesHealth careEU retail investors: available

+2.4% today · +47.0% over a year

4/10 A 1–10 summary of how an instrument compares with similar ones (same sector and region) by published rules. It describes today's data; it is not a price forecast. More in the glossary → «Balanced» — higher than 47% of the instruments we score

Dividend yield 0.15%.

Baxter International (BAX) valuation against sector peers: P/B 2.1, P/S 1.2.

Ratios vs sector

Medians of Health care companies in the same region (stocks and REITs).

Lower P/E, P/B, P/S and EV/EBIT mean cheaper; higher yields, returns and margins mean more for the price. Negative multiples (losses) are left out of the medians.
MetricBAXSector medianvs median
P/E—30.9 · n=159—
P/B2.14.0 · n=30747% below
P/S1.24.1 · n=29972% below
EV/EBIT—25.6 · n=146—
Free-cash-flow yield—1.4% · n=288—
Dividend yield0.15%0.00% · n=362—
Return on equity−10.5%−2.1% · n=308—
Return on invested capital−4.4%0.6% · n=282783% below
Gross margin30.1%63.3% · n=20552% below
Net debt / EBITDA−2.691.27 · n=151313% below

Value factor: 53 of 100 within the peer group. Full score breakdown →

Sector peers

The largest companies of the same sector and region.

LLYEli Lilly & Co48.233.0—1.5%0.6%6/10
JNJJohnson & Johnson42.28.3—3.0%1.9%8/10
ABBVAbbVie50.3—27.73.6%2.9%6/10
MRKMerck149.58.2—4.0%2.3%8/10
UNHUnitedHealth22.43.417.16.4%2.3%10/10
TMOThermo Fisher Scientific37.84.935.72.8%0.3%9/10
AMGNAmgen26.817.523.23.8%2.1%8/10
GILDGilead Sciences—16.1—6.6%1.9%5/10
ABTAbbott40.73.832.93.5%2.8%6/10
PFEPfizer41.31.9—7.1%7.4%1/10

Fiscal-year history

From annual SEC filings; each bar is a fiscal year, labelled by the year it ended.

Filings: U.S. SEC EDGAR · ratios computed by AI-Stock Invest from public filings and end-of-day prices · latest period 30 Sep 2026 · filed 29 Oct 2026