R&D expense · 2012–2025

Medtronic R&D expense

$2.9B+5.2% · FY2025

Medtronic (MDT) reported $2.9B in R&D expense for fiscal 2025, +5.2% year on year.

$1.6B2012$1.5B2013$1.6B2014$2.2B2015$2.2B2016$2.3B2017$2.3B2018$2.3B2019$2.5B2020$2.7B2021$2.7B2022$2.7B2023$2.7B2024$2.9B2025
Medtronic — R&D expense, 2012–2025
Fiscal yearR&D expenseChangeFiling
FY20252026-04-24$2.9B+5.2%Open →
FY20242025-04-25$2.7B−0.1%Open →
FY20232024-04-26$2.7B+1.4%Open →
FY20222023-04-28$2.7B−1.8%Open →
FY20212022-04-29$2.7B+10.1%Open →
FY20202021-04-30$2.5B+6.9%Open →
FY20192020-04-24$2.3B+0.0%Open →
FY20182019-04-26$2.3B+3.3%Open →
FY20172018-04-27$2.3B+2.9%Open →
FY20162017-04-28$2.2B−1.4%Open →
FY20152016-04-29$2.2B+35.6%Open →
FY20142015-04-24$1.6B+11.0%Open →
FY20132014-04-25$1.5B−5.1%Open →
FY20122013-04-26$1.6B—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 · 2012–2025 compound annual growth +4.8%

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Wikipedia

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BibTeX

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  author       = {{CompaniesRanked}},
  title        = {{Medtronic R\&D expense}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://companiesranked.com/en/company/medtronic/research-and-development-expense}},
  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 · 0001628280-26-044354 · June 18, 2026

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