Helsepersonell

Committed to helping you meet the evolving challenges and opportunities in patient care.

Helsepersonell

  • Providing innovative therapies and technologies to help you treat patients with life-threatening illnesses in the ICU.

  • From the pharmacy to the bedside, we help you maximize safety, streamline processes and build cost efficiency throughout the hospital.

  • Nutritional Care

    Acute and chronic nutritional care for your patients who are unable to get adequate nutrients orally or enterally.

  • Pioneering innovation in hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis to help you achieve better outcomes for your patients.

  • Surgical Care

    Delivering innovative surgical products that help you operate with confidence, precision and speed.

  • Our portfolio of acute, nutritional, renal, hospital and surgical care products helps advance healthcare around the world.

Perspektiv

For more than 85-years, we have worked at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives.

Perspektiv

Our Story

Our more than 85-year heritage gives us distinct perspective on the needs of patients and caregivers. We lead today by putting those insights to work to deliver new, better healthcare solutions and access to care in the communities where we live and work.

Our Story
  • Our Governance

    We are proud of our strong commitment to maintaining the highest standards of corporate governance.

  • Fueling Collaborative Innovation

    Nurturing a culture of innovation is critical to delivering on our mission to save and sustain lives. We partner with the healthcare community to continually find more efficient, smarter ways to help solve the world's most pressing healthcare challenges.

  • Corporate Responsibility

    We are committed to doing business the right way, ensuring that we champion our employees, our communities, our customers and patients, and our environment in everything we do.

  • Inclusion & Diversity

    We are committed to attracting, motivating and retaining an inclusive and diverse workforce.

  • Our History

    For more than 85 years, we’ve been focused on saving and sustaining lives and elevating patient care.

Pasienter

Helping you reach a healthy life, full of possibility.

Pasienter
  • Critical Care

    When every moment counts, our therapies help healthcare specialists provide life-sustaining treatment to you or your loved one.

  • Hospital Care

    From the pharmacy to the bedside, we support you and your healthcare providers with IV medications and infusion technologies designed with safety in mind.

  • When medical conditions prevent you from adequately feeding yourself, we provide life-saving clinical nutrition options to help you regain or maintain your health.

  • Renal Care

    Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an ongoing journey. While every journey is unique, Baxter is with you every step of the way, providing options to meet your lifestyle needs.

  • Surgical Care

    We partner with surgical teams around the world so they can operate with confidence, precision and speed for a successful outcome to your surgery.

Baxter Declares Quarterly Dividend and Announces Expanded Share Repurchase Authorization

Press Release

Deerfield, Ill. -

Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX), a leading global medical products company, announced today a quarterly cash dividend and an expanded authorization for its share repurchase program.

The Board of Directors of Baxter has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.19 per share of common stock, payable on Jan. 2, 2019, to stockholders of record as of Dec. 3, 2018. The indicated annual dividend rate is $0.76 per share of common stock.

Baxter’s Board of Directors has also approved a $2.0 billion increase in authorization for the company’s existing share repurchase plan. Based on these actions, the share repurchase plan has approximately $3.4 billion of repurchase authority available as of the date hereof to make repurchases pursuant to new or existing Rule 10b5-1 plans or otherwise. Shares will be repurchased in the open market or through private transactions at times and amounts determined by the company based on its evaluation of market conditions and other factors and, if applicable, in accordance with the terms of one or more Rule 10b5-1 plans.

 “Baxter’s strong balance sheet allows us to serve our shareholders by investing in growth as well as returning value through dividends and share repurchases,” said Jay Saccaro, Baxter’s chief financial officer.

About Baxter

Every day, millions of patients and caregivers rely on Baxter’s leading portfolio of critical care, nutrition, renal, hospital and surgical products. For more than 85 years, we’ve been operating at the critical intersection where innovations that save and sustain lives meet the healthcare providers that make it happen. With products, technologies and therapies available in more than 100 countries, Baxter’s employees worldwide are now building upon the company’s rich heritage of medical breakthroughs to advance the next generation of transformative healthcare innovations. To learn more, visit www.baxter.com and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

This release includes forward-looking statements concerning Baxter's dividend and potential share repurchase activity. The statements are based on assumptions about many important factors, including the following, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements: continued strength in the company’s financial position, including cash flows; alternative uses of funds including, but not limited to dividends, share repurchases, business development transactions and other investments in the company’s businesses; and other risks identified in the company's most recent filing on Form 10-K and other SEC filings, all of which are available on Baxter’s website. Baxter does not undertake to update its forward-looking statements.

Baxter is a registered trademark of Baxter International Inc.