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Baxter International Inc.

Healthcare · Medical - Instruments & Supplies

$25.94

Up+$0.03 (+0.12%)

Updated Aug 19, 2026, 8:31 AM

SID Score

6.5/10

Composite research score

Smart Money

59/100

Neutral

Market cap
9.71B
P/E ratio
-28.49
Dividend yield
2.00%
52-week range
$15.73 – $30.00
Volume
6.69M
Avg. volume
7.88M

Price performance

BAX price history

1M range · 21 trading sessions · Daily adjusted prices

BAX closed at $25.94 after 21 trading sessions, up 16.79% for the selected period.

Last close
$25.94
Period change
+16.79%
Period low
$21.67
Period high
$28.35
Daily close
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BAX OHLC price history, latest 40 sessions
DateOpenHighLowCloseVolume
Aug 18, 2026$26.08$26.335$25.75$25.946.69M
Aug 17, 2026$26.47$26.47$25.865$25.915.85M
Aug 14, 2026$27.01$27.16$26.595$26.734.96M
Aug 13, 2026$27.02$27.45$26.895$27.056.71M
Aug 12, 2026$27.20$27.40$26.64$26.956.88M
Aug 11, 2026$27.55$28.015$27.38$27.617.58M
Aug 10, 2026$27.12$27.97$26.78$27.788.31M
Aug 7, 2026$26.93$27.88$26.56$27.558.16M
Aug 6, 2026$27.41$27.95$26.815$27.016.94M
Aug 5, 2026$28.20$28.21$27.09$27.339.3M
Aug 4, 2026$27.74$28.375$27.48$28.3510.21M
Aug 3, 2026$26.98$28.30$26.90$28.1010.45M
Jul 31, 2026$26.92$27.145$26.025$26.169.28M
Jul 30, 2026$29.07$30.00$26.045$26.7522.67M
Jul 29, 2026$24.40$24.925$24.28$24.779.43M
Jul 28, 2026$23.85$24.75$23.575$24.377.1M
Jul 27, 2026$22.68$23.395$22.60$23.345.45M
Jul 24, 2026$21.95$22.645$21.895$22.404.98M
Jul 23, 2026$21.56$21.78$21.40$21.674.52M
Jul 22, 2026$22.53$22.5599$21.70$21.744.51M
Jul 21, 2026$21.86$22.24$21.84$22.213.96M

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Company profile

Baxter offers a variety of medical supplies and equipment to providers. From its legacy operations, Baxter sells injectable therapies for use in care settings, including IV pumps, administrative sets, and solutions; nutritional products; and surgical sealants and hemostatic agents. Baxter expanded its portfolio of hospital-focused offerings by acquiring Hillrom in late 2021, which added basic equipment like hospital beds, operating room equipment, and patient monitoring tools to the portfolio. Baxter also sold its kidney care tools in early 2025.

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Consensus
Average target
$23.80
Implied upside
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BAX recent ratings
DateFirmRatingTarget
Jul 31, 2026Wells FargoEqual-Weight
Jul 31, 2026StifelHold
Jul 31, 2026CitigroupNeutral
Jul 31, 2026TD CowenHold
Jul 28, 2026UBSNeutral
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Yahoo · Aug 7, 2026

Does Cardinal Health’s New CAO and Recalls Reveal Shifts in Its Risk Profile and Earnings Quality (CAH)?

In early August 2026, Cardinal Health announced that Anita Zielinski will become Chief Accounting Officer in November, following her interim CFO and senior accounting roles at Baxter and long tenure at Sysco and Ernst & Young, while the company also faced ongoing Class II recalls of subpotent levothyroxine tablets distributed nationwide in the US. This combination of leadership change in Cardinal Health’s finance function and routine but nationwide product recalls comes as analysts are...

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