Abbott Laboratories (ABT) – Introduction and background |
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Abbott Laboratories is an American healthcare company, headquartered in Illinois.
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Founded by Wallace Abbott in 1888 and originally named Abbott Alkaloidal Company, Abbott Laboratories is a major American healthcare company, with business lines in medical devices, over-the-counter pharmaceutical products, nutrition and diagnostics. The company’s drug development division was spun off as AbbVie in 2011.
Abbott Laboratories operates worldwide, and its revenue is split across segments and geographies, with medical devices being the largest single contributor to revenue. Abbott is a highly reliable dividend-paying stock, with over 100 years of consecutive paid dividends by 2023.
The company has over 110,000 employees worldwide and is a constituent stock of the S&P500 and S&P100 indices, and Vanguard, Blackrock, and Capital Research Global Investors are its largest shareholders.
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