ABT · Healthcare
What a holder would want to know before buying ABT: where the price sits in its own history, how far it has fallen before and whether it recovered, and what the business behind it earns. All of it is arithmetic over free market data — no opinions, no recommendations.
Today’s price is 21% above the lowest point of the past year and 25% below the highest.
Over the past year it was cheaper than today on 27% of days and more expensive on 73%. Over the last 10 years: cheaper on 46% of days.
4% below its average price of the last 200 trading days.
Fell 20% or more twice in 10 years. The deepest fall was 42%; the longest took 3 months to get back to its peak. 1 of 2 have recovered so far.
It is in one now: 30% below the Dec 2021 peak.
Abbott Laboratories · Healthcare · Medical Devices · a large company worth $172.35B
Abbott Laboratories, together with its subsidiaries, discovers, develops, manufactures, and sells health care products worldwide. It operates in four segments: Established Pharmaceutical Products, Diagnostic Products,…
revenue profit
Sales of $44.33B in 2025, with $6.52B of profit. Sales grew in 2 of the last 3 years.
Keeps about 12 cents of every dollar of sales as profit.
Would need about 4.5 years of free cash flow to repay all its debt.
You pay $32 for every $1 of last year’s profit, and $16 for every $1 of profit expected next year.
A high number means buyers expect growth; a low one means they expect little, or fear trouble. Large US companies have averaged roughly 15–20 over the decades.
Pays 2.56% a year in dividends at today’s price · next ex-dividend Oct 15.
28 analysts: 24 say buy, 4 hold, 0 sell. Their average 12-month target is $120.72 (range $103.00–$135.00).
Insiders made 3 purchases and 3 sales in the last 6 months.
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