ABT (ABT) Stock

About ABT

ABT is led by CEO Robert Ford, employs 114,000 people, headquartered in Abbott Park, US, publicly traded since 1980.

ABT stock trades at $109.49 with a market capitalization of $189.46B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 36.69, price-to-book of 3.89, price-to-sales of 4.24. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $81.97 and $137.49, and currently trades 20.4% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 2.21%.

On profitability, ABT generates a return on equity (ROE) of 10.52%, return on capital employed of 8.68%, an operating margin of 18.17%, a net profit margin of 11.65%.

In its most recent fiscal year, ABT reported annual revenue of $44.3B, net profit of $6.5B, revenue has compounded at 5.1% a year over the last five years, profit at 7.7% a year. Profit growing faster than revenue points to expanding margins.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.64, a current ratio of 1.58, total assets of $86.7B, $8.5B in cash and equivalents.

ABT has an average daily trading volume of 11,897,095 shares, a beta of 0.58 (less volatile than the overall market).