R&D expense · 2016–2025

Elanco Animal Health R&D expense

$368M+7.0% · FY2025

Elanco Animal Health (ELAN) reported $368M in R&D expense for fiscal 2025, +7.0% year on year.

$266M2016$252M2017$247M2018$270M2019$329M2020$369M2021$321M2022$327M2023$344M2024$368M2025
Elanco Animal Health — R&D expense, 2016–2025
Fiscal yearR&D expenseChangeFiling
FY20252025-12-31$368M+7.0%Open →
FY20242024-12-31$344M+5.2%Open →
FY20232023-12-31$327M+1.9%Open →
FY20222022-12-31$321M−13.0%Open →
FY20212021-12-31$369M+12.2%Open →
FY20202020-12-31$329M+21.9%Open →
FY20192019-12-31$270M+9.5%Open →
FY20182018-12-31$247M−2.0%Open →
FY20172017-12-31$252M−5.3%Open →
FY20162016-12-31$266M—Open →

R&D expense — Research and development expense is what the company charged to R&D in the income statement for the year. Most companies report no R&D at all — the line is absent rather than zero — so this ranking covers the roughly 40% of filers that do.

Every row links to its own SEC filing · Fiscal year 2025 · Data as of September 25, 2026 · 2016–2025 compound annual growth +3.7%

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BibTeX

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  author       = {{CompaniesRanked}},
  title        = {{Elanco Animal Health R\&D expense}},
  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 · 0001739104-26-000012 · February 24, 2026

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