Becton Dickinson flies to Napa the week after Q2 earnings and a Texas plant update

Becton Dickinson flew from Las Vegas to Napa County Airport on May 12, a 78-minute hop in its Falcon 7X, N294X. The trip came just days after the company reported fiscal second-quarter results that beat Wall Street expectations, with revenue of $4.7 billion and adjusted EPS of $2.90, per the company's May 7 earnings release [investors.bd.com](https://investors.bd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/958/bd-reports-second-quarter-fiscal-2026-financial-results).

That same week, CEO Tom Polen addressed an FDA warning letter tied to the El Paso, Texas, facility that manufactures ChloraPrep and PurPrep infection-prevention products. On the earnings call, Polen said the company voluntarily placed those products on ship hold in the U.S. while completing additional final-release testing, a process expected to take about three weeks [fool.com](https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2026/05/07/becton-dickinson-bdx-q2-2026-earnings-transcript/). Napa offers a quiet setting for post-earnings decompression or off-site discussions — the company's recent flight pattern shows a series of trips to El Paso and Salt Lake City, suggesting the Napa leg is a brief detour before returning to the Franklin Lakes headquarters.