Share buybacks · 2011–2025

Abbott Laboratories share buybacks

$893M−31.0% · FY2025

Abbott Laboratories (ABT) reported $893M in share buybacks for fiscal 2025, −31.0% year on year.

$77.0M2011$2.4B2012$1.6B2013$2.2B2014$2.2B2015$522M2016$117M2017$238M2018$718M2019$403M2020$2.3B2021$3.8B2022$1.2B2023$1.3B2024$893M2025
Abbott Laboratories — Share buybacks, 2011–2025
Fiscal yearShare buybacksChangeFiling
FY20252025-12-31$893M−31.0%Open →
FY20242024-12-31$1.3B+5.5%Open →
FY20232023-12-31$1.2B−67.7%Open →
FY20222022-12-31$3.8B+65.1%Open →
FY20212021-12-31$2.3B+470.5%Open →
FY20202020-12-31$403M−43.9%Open →
FY20192019-12-31$718M+201.7%Open →
FY20182018-12-31$238M+103.4%Open →
FY20172017-12-31$117M−77.6%Open →
FY20162016-12-31$522M−76.7%Open →
FY20152015-12-31$2.2B+1.9%Open →
FY20142014-12-31$2.2B+36.8%Open →
FY20132013-12-31$1.6B−32.1%Open →
FY20122012-12-31$2.4B+2,970.1%Open →
FY20112011-12-31$77.0M—Open →

Share buybacks — Share buybacks are the cash a company spent during the year repurchasing its own stock, taken from the financing section of the cash-flow statement. Most companies buy back nothing at all — the line is absent rather than zero — so this ranking covers the minority that do.

Every row links to its own SEC filing · Fiscal year 2025 · Data as of September 25, 2026 · 2011–2025 compound annual growth +19.1%

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Wikipedia

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APA 7

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BibTeX

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  author       = {{CompaniesRanked}},
  title        = {{Abbott Laboratories share buybacks}},
  year         = {2026},
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  note         = {Compiled from SEC EDGAR XBRL filings; data as of 2026-09-25},
  urldate      = {2026-09-25}
}

The filing itself

The numbers above are read from this document: 10-K · 0001628280-26-010185 · February 20, 2026

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