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

Abbott Laboratories' Return on Sales history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 0.15% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Sales fell 69.0% year-over-year to 0.15%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.15%, down 17.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.15%, 17.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Sales for Q4 2025 was 0.15% at Abbott Laboratories, up from 0.14% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Sales topped out at 0.84% in Q4 2024 and bottomed at 0.1% in Q4 2022.
  • The 5-year median for Return on Sales is 0.15% (2024), against an average of 0.18%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Return on Sales surged 69bps in 2024 before it crashed -69bps in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Sales shows it stood at 0.17% in 2021, then crashed by -41bps to 0.1% in 2022, then skyrocketed by 52bps to 0.16% in 2023, then surged by 440bps to 0.84% in 2024, then tumbled by -82bps to 0.15% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for ABT's Return on Sales are 0.15% (Q4 2025), 0.14% (Q3 2025), and 0.16% (Q2 2025).