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Abbott Laboratories (ABT) Return on Equity (2016 - 2025)

Abbott Laboratories (ABT) has disclosed Return on Equity for 17 consecutive years, with 0.13% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly Return on Equity fell 24.0% to 0.13% in Q4 2025 from the year-ago period, while the trailing twelve-month figure was 0.13% through Dec 2025, down 24.0% year-over-year, with the annual reading at 0.13% for FY2025, 54.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Equity hit 0.13% in Q4 2025 for Abbott Laboratories, down from 0.63% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Equity ranged from a high of 32.29% in Q4 2021 to a low of 8.09% in Q3 2023.
  • Historically, Return on Equity has averaged 2.05% across 5 years, with a median of 0.25% in 2024.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Equity: surged 3229bps in 2021 and later tumbled -3406bps in 2022.
  • Year by year, Return on Equity stood at 32.29% in 2021, then crashed by -105bps to 1.77% in 2022, then soared by 31bps to 1.22% in 2023, then soared by 130bps to 0.37% in 2024, then plummeted by -66bps to 0.13% in 2025.
  • Business Quant data shows Return on Equity for ABT at 0.13% in Q4 2025, 0.63% in Q3 2025, and 2.0% in Q2 2025.