Abbott Laboratories Dividends
The next dividend date for Abbott Laboratories has not yet been scheduled.
What is a Dividend Date
When we talk about a dividend date, we’re referring specifically to the ex-dividend date.
This is the date on which all stockholders will earn a dividend. Technically, a person needs to be the owner of a share of stock as of the night before the ex-dividend date in order to earn the dividend.
The ex-dividend date is different than the date when the dividend is issued. Although you earn a dividend on the ex-dividend date, that dividend is typically not disbursed to your account until several weeks later.
Most brokerages will automatically credit the dividend to your account once it’s issued.
Historical Dividends for Abbott Laboratories (ABT)
| 07/15/2026 | 06/12/2026 | 07/15/2026 | 08/17/2026 | $0.63 |
| 04/15/2026 | 02/20/2026 | 04/15/2026 | 05/15/2026 | $0.63 |
| 01/15/2026 | 12/12/2025 | 01/15/2026 | 02/13/2026 | $0.63 |
| 10/15/2025 | 09/19/2025 | 10/15/2025 | 11/17/2025 | $0.59 |
| 07/15/2025 | 06/13/2025 | 07/15/2025 | 08/15/2025 | $0.59 |
| 04/15/2025 | 02/21/2025 | 04/15/2025 | 05/15/2025 | $0.59 |
| 01/15/2025 | 12/13/2024 | 01/15/2025 | 02/14/2025 | $0.59 |
| 10/15/2024 | 09/19/2024 | 10/15/2024 | 11/15/2024 | $0.55 |
| 07/15/2024 | 06/14/2024 | 07/15/2024 | 08/15/2024 | $0.55 |
| 04/12/2024 | 02/16/2024 | 04/15/2024 | 05/15/2024 | $0.55 |
More About Abbott Laboratories
Abbott Laboratories, together with its subsidiaries, discovers, develops, manufactures, and sells health care products worldwide. It operates in four segments: Established Pharmaceutical Products, Diagnostic Products, Nutritional Products, and Medical Devices. The company offers generic pharmaceuticals for the treatment of pancreatic exocrine insufficiency, irritable bowel syndrome or biliary spasm, intrahepatic cholestasis or depressive symptoms, gynecological disorder, hormone replacement therapy, dyslipidemia, hypertension, hypothyroidism, hypertriglyceridemia, Ménière's disease and vestibular vertigo, pain, fever, inflammation, and migraine, as well as provides anti-infective clarithromycin, influenza vaccine, and products to regulate physiological rhythm of the colon. It also provides laboratory and transfusion medicine systems in the areas of immunoassay, clinical chemistry, hematology, and transfusion serology testing; molecular diagnostics polymerase chain reaction instrument systems that automate the extraction, purification, and preparation of DNA and RNA from patient samples, and detect and measure infectious agents; point of care systems; cartridges for testing blood gas, chemistry, electrolytes, coagulation, and immunoassay; rapid diagnostics lateral flow testing products; molecular point-of-care testing for HIV, SARS-CoV-2, influenza A and B, RSV, and strep A; cardiometabolic test systems; and drug and alcohol test. In addition, the company offers pediatric and adult nutritional products and infant formula; rhythm management, electrophysiology, heart failure, vascular, and structural heart devices for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases; diabetes care products, such as glucose and blood glucose monitoring systems; and neuromodulation devices. The company was formerly known as Abbott Alkaloidal Company and changed its name to Abbott Laboratories in 1915. Abbott Laboratories was founded in 1888 and is based in Abbott Park, Illinois.
Owning Abbott Laboratories Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own Abbott Laboratories stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of Abbott Laboratories stock should go down by the amount of the dividend (in addition to any other pressures that market forces have on the price of Abbott Laboratories stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying Abbott Laboratories stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the Abbott Laboratories dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
Owning Abbott Laboratories Options on the Dividend Date
Unlike the stock price, which will normally have an abrupt decrease by the amount of the dividend on the ex-dividend date, option prices typically do not reflect the same phenomenon.
The reason is that in the time leading up to the ex-dividend date, that projected drop in Abbott Laboratories stock price from the dividend is already baked into Abbott Laboratories option prices.
That means the prices of call options that overlap the Abbott Laboratories ex-dividend date typically go down in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
The prices of put options that overlap the Abbott Laboratories ex-dividend date typically go up in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
Owners of Abbott Laboratories call options do not receive the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date. Owners of Abbott Laboratories put options are not responsible to pay the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date.
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