Dividend Aristocrat Becton Dickinson (BDX) will raise its quarterly dividend to $0.60 per share. The dividend will be payable on December 31, 2014 to holders of record on December 10, 2014.

Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) is a global medical technology company engaged in the development, manufacture and sale of a range of medical supplies, devices, laboratory equipment and diagnostic products. BD Medical consists of various business units, including diabetes care, medication and procedural solutions, medication management solutions and pharmaceutical systems. BD Life Sciences provides products for the safe collection and transport of diagnostics specimens, and instruments and reagent systems to detect a range of infectious diseases, healthcare-associated infections and cancers.