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ABBOTT LABORATORIES

At today's price, ABBOTT LABORATORIES (ABT) is priced for +9.6% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.

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+9.6% growth
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within-range

Key Takeaways

- Abbott is one of the most diversified names in healthcare, spread across medical devices, diagnostics, nutrition, and established pharmaceuticals, with no single segment dominating except Diabetes Care at about 18%. That breadth is the defining feature and the reason it trades like a quality compounder rather than a single-product bet. - At $88 (as of June 27, 2026) the market pays about 25 times operating income, implying roughly 8.7% annual operating growth for five years. That is within wha

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Institutional ownership

3,016 institutional managers reported holding ABT in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 77% of the company; the top 10 hold 38%. 138 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 22.0M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 1% of shares outstanding (1.8 days of typical volume to cover).

Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.

Capital returns

ABT has cut its share count 2.1% over the past five years, spending $8.94B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (18 and counting), raised 12 years straight; the current rate is $2.40 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $10.83B in dividends and $2.63B in repurchases.

Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.

Insider activity

Open-market insider buys at ABT over the trailing three years: 2026: 4 buys totaling $3.28M. 24 officers and directors are on file.

Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.

Earnings reactions

ABT's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.

reportday onenext quarter
2023-08-04+6.5%-10.0%
2023-11-02+3.6%+15.7%
2024-02-17+1.3%-5.9%
2024-05-03-0.1%-1.8%

Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.

Recent filings

ABT's latest 8-K filings: 2026-04-27 (items 5.02, 5.03, 5.07, 9.01); 2026-04-17 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-04-16 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-03-23 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-03-09 (items 1.01, 2.03, 9.01).

Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.

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Last analyzed: July 3, 2026

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