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2874 companies · fiscal year 2025 · SEC EDGAR · September 25, 2026

Healthcare companies that pay the most in dividends

Dividends paid is the cash that actually left the company for shareholders during the year, taken from the financing section of the cash-flow statement. It is a total in dollars, not a per-share rate or a yield — a yield needs a share price, which this site does not carry. Figures are for fiscal year 2025 and are read directly from each company's SEC filings; the source column on every row links to the document.

Ranks 1–76 of 76 · Fiscal year 2025 · Data as of September 25, 2026

AbbVie (ABBV) tops the list with $11.7B in dividends paid for fiscal 2025, ahead of Merck ($8.2B) and UnitedHealth Group ($7.9B). The top 10 together report $64.2B in dividends paid; the gap between #1 and #10 is ×2.91. 76 companies in Healthcare report dividends paid, 5.2% of the 1474-filer universe. The last place on the list, Petmed Express, comes in at $21,000.

Dividends paid
#CompanyDividends paidYoY15-year trend
1AbbVieABBVUS$11.7B+5.7%
2MerckMRKUS$8.2B+4.3%
3UnitedHealth GroupUNHUS$7.9B+5.1%
4Novo Nordisk A SNVODK$7.8B+22.4%
5Eli LillyLLYUS$5.4B+15.0%
6AmgenAMGNUS$5.1B+6.0%
7Bristol Myers SquibbBMYUS$5.0B+3.7%
8AstraZenecaAZNGB$5.0B+7.4%
9Abbott LaboratoriesABTUS$4.1B+7.3%
10Gilead SciencesGILDUS$4.0B+2.2%
11MedtronicMDTIE$3.6B+1.4%
12Sinovac BiotechSVACN$3.5B+273.2%
13CVS HealthCVSUS$3.4B+0.7%
14Cigna GroupCIUS$1.6B+2.8%
153MMMMUS$1.6B−21.2%
16Elevance HealthELVUS$1.5B+1.4%
17StrykerSYKUS$1.3B+5.3%
18AflacAFLUS$1.2B+10.2%
19Becton DickinsonBDXUS$1.2B+8.7%
20Principal FinancialPFGUS$684M+3.9%
21HCA HealthcareHCAUS$679M−1.6%
22IQVIA HoldingsIQVUS$568M+97.0%
23Cardinal HealthCAHUS$494M−1.0%
24CencoraCORUS$437M+5.0%
25HumanaHUMUS$430M−0.2%
26Fresenius Medical CareFMSDE$397M+3.5%
27McKessonMCKUS$381M+10.4%
28Regeneron PharmaceuticalsREGNUS$370M+$370M
29Quest DiagnosticsDGXUS$353M+6.6%
30Baxter InternationalBAXUS$348M−41.0%
31ResmedRMDUS$311M+10.1%
32Unum GroupUNMUS$306M+3.3%
33SterisSTEIE$242M+10.0%
34Labcorp HoldingsLHUS$241M−1.0%
35Zimmer BiometZBHUS$190M−2.9%
36AlconALCUS$166M+27.7%
37PerrigoPRGOIE$159M+4.5%
38Dentsply SironaXRAYUS$128M+1.6%
39OrganonOGNUS$88.0M−70.4%
40Msa SafetyMSAUS$82.3M+4.6%
41Encompass HealthEHCUS$71.1M+13.2%
42Cno FinancialCNOUS$66.2M−2.2%
43GE Healthcare TechnologiesGEHCUS$64.0M+16.4%
44West Pharmaceutical ServicesWSTUS$61.2M+3.6%
45TeleflexTFXUS$60.3M−5.2%
46QiagenQGENNL$54.2M+$54.2M
47Universal Health ServicesUHSUS$51.3M−3.9%
48Bio-TechneTECHUS$50.4M−0.1%
49National HealthcareNHCUS$38.7M+4.7%
50EmbectaEMBCUS$35.0M+1.4%
51Concentra Group Holdings ParentCONUS$32.1M+303.0%
52ChemedCHEUS$31.7M+17.0%
53Porch GroupPRCHUS$30.0M—
54U S Physical TherapyUSPHUS$27.4M+3.1%
55ConmedCNMDUS$24.7M+0.4%
56Community Health SystemsCYHUS$22.5M—
57Phibro Animal HealthPAHCUS$19.4M+0.0%
58Lemaitre VascularLMATUS$18.1M+25.9%
59Stevanato GroupSTVNIT$16.7M+6.4%
60Universe PharmaceuticalsUPCCN$16.0M—
61Cadre HoldingsCDREUS$15.4M+10.8%
62Ensign GroupENSGUS$14.4M+5.4%
63Teva Pharmaceutical IndustriesTEVAIL$12.0M−98.7%
64Nu Skin EnterprisesNUSUS$11.8M−0.8%
65KamadaKMDAIL$11.5M—
66NRC HealthNRCUS$11.0M−4.1%
67Innovage HoldingINNVUS$9.5M—
68ArtivionAORTUS$3.4M+3.4%
69LifemdLFMDUS$3.1M0.0%
70LifevantageLFVNUS$2.1M−70.2%
71BioteBTMDUS$1.7M−63.6%
72Ani PharmaceuticalsANIPUS$1.2M−28.8%
73Lakeland IndustriesLAKEUS$1.2M+29.9%
74Bridgebio PharmaBBIOUS$997,000−13.4%
75Lantheus HoldingsLNTHUS$123,000—
76Petmed ExpressPETSUS$21,000−88.4%

All figures from SEC filings · FY2025 · 76

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