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Abbott Laboratories ABT

19 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
3 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH
$44.3B
▲ 5.7% YoY
$6.5B
▼ 51.3% YoY
$7.4B
▲ 16.4% YoY
In brief

What this company does

Abbott discovers, develops, manufactures and sells a diversified line of healthcare products. As of December 31, 2025 it employed approximately 115,000 people, 69% of whom were employed outside of the United States. The company has four reportable segments: Established Pharmaceutical Products, Diagnostic Products, Nutritional Products, and Medical Devices. Abbott Laboratories was incorporated in Illinois in 1900.

Written from the business description in ABBOTT LABORATORIES's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 20 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 44.3B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 19-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 44.3 · Net income 6.5
20B40B2007201020132016201920222025
Compound annual growth
+0.5%
+5.1%
+8.1%
+1.6%
−2.0%
+7.7%
+4.0%
−1.6%
+8.3%
+2.5%
+1.5%
+7.7%
+2.1%
−12.7%
+11.2%
+3.2%
+2.4%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +5.1% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +7.7%, earnings per share at +8.3%.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability
15 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 18.2% · Net 14.7%
10%20%30%2007201020132016201920222025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 13.1%
10%20%30%2007201020132016201920222025

Each USD of equity produced 13 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 4.6B
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $B
FY2025 · FCF 7.4
4B8B2007201020132016201920222025
Net buybacks $B Dividends $B
FY2025 · Dividends 4.1 · Net buybacks 0.5
2.5B5.0B-0.4B-0.8BDividendsNet buybacks2007201020132016201920222025

USD 4.1B in dividends and USD 497.0M in buybacks — 71% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 86.7B
EquityUSD 52.1B
CashUSD 8.5B
Gross debtUSD 12.9B
Net debtUSD 4.4B
Current ratio1.58×

Net debt stands at 8% of equity.

The 19-year record
19 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 2025202420232022202120202019201820172016201520142013201220112010200920082007
Revenue $B44.342.040.143.743.134.631.930.627.420.920.420.219.719.121.435.230.829.525.9
Operating income $B8.16.86.58.48.45.44.53.61.63.02.92.62.11.41.66.16.25.74.6
EBITDA $B9.58.27.89.69.96.65.64.82.63.83.73.53.12.73.07.37.46.75.7
Income tax $B1.9−6.40.91.41.10.50.40.51.90.30.60.80.1−0.50.11.11.41.10.9
Net income $B6.513.45.76.97.14.53.72.40.51.44.42.32.66.04.74.65.74.93.6
Free cash flow $B7.46.45.17.88.65.74.54.94.42.11.92.62.27.57.57.76.25.73.5
EPS, diluted $3.727.643.263.913.942.502.061.330.270.942.921.491.623.723.012.963.693.122.31
Dividend / sh $2.402.242.081.92··········1.921.761.60··
Payout %6329624845576283388110335934536258424554
ROE %13.131.115.219.120.614.112.07.71.96.720.79.89.923.320.120.228.327.720.3

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 76 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 19 of 19 fiscal years.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityPharmaceutical Preparations
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inIllinois
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2007

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