Abbott Laboratories Stock Earnings Per Share

ABL Stock  EUR 108.90  0.28  0.26%   
Abbott Laboratories fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Abbott Laboratories' financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Abbott Stock. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Abbott Laboratories' intrinsic value by examining its available economic and financial indicators, including the cash flow records, the balance sheet account changes, the income statement patterns, and various microeconomic indicators and financial ratios related to Abbott Laboratories stock.
  
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Abbott Laboratories Company Earnings Per Share Analysis

Abbott Laboratories' Earnings per Share (EPS) denotes the portion of a company's earnings that is allocated to each share of common stock. To calculate Earnings per Share investors will need to take a company's net income, subtract any dividends for preferred stock, and divide it by the number of average outstanding shares. EPS is usually presented in two different ways: basic and diluted. Fully diluted Earnings per Share takes into account effects of warrants, options, and convertible securities and is generally viewed by analysts as a more accurate measure.

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Current Abbott Laboratories Earnings Per Share

    
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Most of Abbott Laboratories' fundamental indicators, such as Earnings Per Share, are part of a valuation analysis module that helps investors searching for stocks that are currently trading at higher or lower prices than their real value. If the real value is higher than the market price, Abbott Laboratories is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
Earnings per Share is one of the most critical measures of the firm's current share price and is used by investors to determine the overall company profitability, especially when compared to the EPS of similar companies.
Competition

According to the company disclosure, Abbott Laboratories has an Earnings Per Share of 3.69 times. This is 55.91% lower than that of the Healthcare sector and notably higher than that of the Medical Devices industry. The earnings per share for all Germany stocks is 18.27% lower than that of the firm.

Abbott Earnings Per Share Peer Comparison

Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Abbott Laboratories' direct or indirect competition against its Earnings Per Share to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the stocks which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of Abbott Laboratories could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Abbott Laboratories by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.
Abbott Laboratories is currently under evaluation in earnings per share category among its peers.

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About Abbott Laboratories Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Abbott Laboratories's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Abbott Laboratories using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Abbott Laboratories based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this company, focuses on analyzing financial statements comparatively, whereas a qaualitative method uses data that is important to a company's growth but cannot be measured and presented in a numerical way.
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Additional Information and Resources on Investing in Abbott Stock

When determining whether Abbott Laboratories is a good investment, qualitative aspects like company management, corporate governance, and ethical practices play a significant role. A comparison with peer companies also provides context and helps to understand if Abbott Stock is undervalued or overvalued. This multi-faceted approach, blending both quantitative and qualitative analysis, forms a solid foundation for making an informed investment decision about Abbott Laboratories Stock. Highlighted below are key reports to facilitate an investment decision about Abbott Laboratories Stock:
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Please note, there is a significant difference between Abbott Laboratories' value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Abbott Laboratories is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Abbott Laboratories' price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.