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AbbVie Inc

ABBV#105 of 134 by buybacks

NYSE · Healthcare · Drug Manufacturers - General · USA

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Buybacks · FY2025$980Mlatest fiscal year
Buyback yield0.2%repurchases ÷ market cap
Dividends · FY2025$11.7Bdividend yield 2.4%
Shareholder yield2.6%buybacks + dividends ÷ market cap
Shares outstanding · 5 yr−0.4%1.77B shares (2026)
Buybacks ÷ free cash flow6%payout incl. dividends 71%
Buybacks and dividends by fiscal year
Cash returned to shareholders, in USD. Fiscal years end in December.
Shares outstanding
Share count down 0.4% over roughly five years. Falling is what a real buyback looks like.
Quarterly repurchases
Last 8 reported quarters, in USD. Orange bars mark quarters where the company issued more shares than it bought.

Fiscal-year detail

From the cash-flow statement as reported, in USD. Negative repurchases mean net share issuance.

Fiscal yearRepurchasesDividendsFree cash flow
FY2025Dec 2025$980M$11.7B$17.8B
FY2024Dec 2024$1.71B$11.0B$17.8B
FY2023Dec 2023$1.97B$10.5B$22.1B
FY2022Dec 2022$1.49B$10.0B$24.2B
FY2021Dec 2021$934M$9.26B$22.0B
FY2020Dec 2020$978M$7.72B$16.8B
FY2019Dec 2019$629M$6.37B$12.8B

Repurchases in FY2025 were −42.6% versus the prior year.

About AbbVie Inc

AbbVie Inc., a research-based biopharmaceutical company, engages in the research and development, manufacturing, commercializing, and sale of medicines and therapies worldwide. The company offers Skyrizi to treat autoimmune diseases; Rinvoq to treat inflammatory diseases; Imbruvica for the treatment of adult patients with blood cancers; Venclexta to treat blood cancers; Elahere to treat various cancer; and Epkinly to treat lymphoma; and Emrelis for the treatment of lung cancer. It also provides facial injectables,…

Market cap
$489B
P/E (trailing)
78.1×
Fiscal year end
December
ISIN
US00287Y1091
Reporting currency
USD
Data updated
Oct 10, 2026
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