“In Rapid and Molecular Diagnostics, sales decreased 8.8 percent in the first six months of 2026, excluding the impact of foreign exchange, primarily reflecting lower demand for respiratory virus tests due to a weaker respiratory virus season compared to the p…”10-Q · Jul 28, 2026 ↗
Abbott Laboratories
ABT
Market read
Abbott Laboratories's move is spreading beyond its market group.
ABT accounts for 9.6% of the group's measured movement across 7.5 effective names. raw member direction is mixed; 7 of 12 session-normalized paths align to the upside. Capital-flow agreement is 15%, so confirmation is not yet clean. No verified headline preceded the measured group move.
Is this move genuinely shared?
BMY, ABBV, AAMI moved materially before ABT. ABT crossed its material path threshold at 10:45 ET, 40 minutes after the first measured mover.
5 of 25 members in Biopharmaceuticals and Care are active. 0 of 8 disclosed connections are confirming.
- At least 17 of 25 durable members become active together.
- Capital-flow agreement rises above 55%.
- KKR remains aligned with the group in the next market snapshot.
Invalidation: The live read weakens if participation falls to 8 of 25 members or fewer.
Research brief
The story so far
ABT accounts for 9.6% of the group's measured movement across 7.5 effective names. raw member direction is mixed; 7 of 12 session-normalized paths align to the upside. Capital-flow agreement is 15%, so confirmation is not yet clean. No verified headline preceded the measured group move.
No thresholded supportive filing evidence is available yet.
No thresholded adverse filing evidence is available yet.
- At least 17 of 25 durable members become active together.
- Capital-flow agreement rises above 55%.
- KKR remains aligned with the group in the next market snapshot.
Company research
Understand the business, not just the ticker
Use the company’s filings to identify the few operating, demand, cost, capital and regulatory variables that determine its earnings power.
- Which operating variable is changing?
- Is that change durable, cyclical or one-off?
- What evidence would disprove the current interpretation?
- Latest annual revenue changed +5.7% year over year.
- Operating margin changed +1.9 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Operating cash flow covered net income at 1.47x in the latest annual period.
- Foreign exchange has repeated favorable evidence across 5 filings.
- Net margin changed -17.2 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Demand and volume has repeated adverse evidence across 5 filings.
- Capital investment and capacity has repeated adverse evidence across 4 filings.
- EV/sales is 19% above the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
Price as of Sep 11, 2026
101.97Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“Selling, general, and administrative (SG&A) expenses increased $934 million to $4.0 billion in the second quarter, or 30.3 percent, and increased $1.6 billion to $7.8 billion, or 26.2 percent, in the first six months of 2026, primarily due to the addition of…”10-Q · Jul 28, 2026 ↗
“Liquidity and Capital Resources The decrease in cash and cash equivalents from $8.5 billion at December 31, 2025, to $5.1 billion at June 30, 2026, primarily reflects the use of cash to fund the cash portion of the acquisition of Exact Sciences and repay the…”10-Q · Jul 28, 2026 ↗
“In the second quarter and the first six months of 2026, interest expense increased primarily due to interest on debt incurred related to the acquisition of Exact Sciences, partially offset by the benefit of prior year debt repayments and interest income earne…”10-Q · Jul 28, 2026 ↗
Valuation discipline
Descriptive valuation snapshot
Price/sales 4.0× · EV/sales 4.1×. Comparisons use only industry-matched filing peers.
Mechanical 2.0-year scenarios are available as editable assumptions, not consensus.
Price action
How the market is pricing the story
Jodie does not have enough daily observations to draw a useful short-term chart for this asset. The latest quoted price was checked 11 Sept, 15:55 GMT-4; this is a coverage limitation, not a flat-price conclusion.
Developments
No sourced recent-development timeline yet
Jodie has not returned a relevant primary source or news item for ABT. This is an evidence-coverage gap, not a conclusion that nothing material happened.
Business and financial condition
Reported financial figures are not available yet
Jodie has not returned structured SEC XBRL fundamentals for this asset. This is a coverage limitation, not an assessment of the business or its financial health.
Filing analysis
No comparable filing assessment is available yet
Jodie has not yet found a suitable current-versus-prior filing comparison for ABT. This does not mean the latest filing was neutral or immaterial.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind ABT
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depends on
SPGIS&P Global Inc.lenderApr 29, 2026 ▾
“At March 31, 2026, Abbott’s long-term debt rating was A+ by S&P Global Ratings and Aa3 by Moody’s Investors Service.”
Depended on by
BBNXBeta Bionics, Inc.partnerApr 21, 2026 ▾
“We have also partnered with Dexcom and Abbott—global leaders in popular and easy to use iCGM technology—to integrate the iLet with the Dexcom G6 and G7 iCGMs and with Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre 3 Plus Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) sensor.”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
ABT is currently a Leader in the organic co-movement group Biopharmaceuticals and Care. This group is discovered from market behaviour rather than assigned from an industry taxonomy. 2 filing-linked names are in the relationship map; none is currently confirmed as moving with the group.
Context history
Theme membership history
No durable theme membership has been observed for this name yet.