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Abbott Laboratories (ABT) Return on Invested Capital (2016 - 2025)

Abbott Laboratories' Return on Invested Capital history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 0.1% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Invested Capital fell 34.0% year-over-year to 0.1%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.1%, down 34.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.1%, 24.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Invested Capital for Q4 2025 was 0.1% at Abbott Laboratories, down from 0.37% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Invested Capital topped out at 1.33% in Q2 2025 and bottomed at 1.88% in Q3 2022.
  • The 5-year median for Return on Invested Capital is 0.4% (2024), against an average of 0.08%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Return on Invested Capital crashed -333bps in 2021 before it surged 239bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Invested Capital shows it stood at 0.45% in 2021, then plummeted by -512bps to 1.86% in 2022, then skyrocketed by 128bps to 0.53% in 2023, then fell by -18bps to 0.43% in 2024, then crashed by -78bps to 0.1% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for ABT's Return on Invested Capital are 0.1% (Q4 2025), 0.37% (Q3 2025), and 1.33% (Q2 2025).