Turning to our results. Members (Non-CDC) are requested to promptly notify the Company's So in our numbers here, I think we’ve kind of excluded them. And we’ve got a very rich pipeline in our cardiovascular area too and in our core lab business, the continued rollout of Alinity, improving our menu, expanding our menu, that’s all helping us become more competitive in this recovery process. It’s got some of it in there, Bob, obviously, when you’re doing this kind of ramp up the way we’re doing it across continents, very different platforms there, we want to make sure that we can deliver. What I would say is, it’s a very different segment than the cardiovascular device segments as it relates to clinical trials in the sense that, we haven’t seen the impact of kind of Coronavirus slow down our trials here, for — within this space. And the bigger picture here is that to be able to sustain an ability to penetrate the mass market, you do need to have a variety of different platforms and continuously innovate. Sure, on the outlook there of devices, I would say, listen, I think that we had a really big impact in Q2 across the world, US and internationally, because I think a lot of — this was a new thing, this was a new virus and the shutdown was pretty dramatic, was pretty significant. Abbott (ABT) Raises Quarterly Dividend 25% to $0.45; 1.7% Yield. Our next question comes from Bob Hopkins from Bank of America. BY MAIL Great. Libre Sense allows athletes to monitor their glucose levels in order to learn how and when to best fuel with food and supplements to avoid fatigue and achieve peak performance. press release . And are we funding R&D programs to continue to innovate? Abbott’s transfer agent, Computershare, sponsors and administers the Computershare Investment Plan for Abbott Laboratories Common Stock. So we’re looking forward to enter that market here in the US. I think we’re going to be at 10% med device growth by the end of this quarter. Yeah, EPD, we definitely saw some more challenging market conditions in this quarter than what we had in Q1 and Q2. It’s an easier sample, it’s a faster result. Today we reported organic sales growth of 10.5%, and ongoing earnings per share of $0.98, which reflects high teens growth versus the prior year. See More. But a lot of that what we’re seeing is share gain and market expansion based on the data that we’re seeing. During the third quarter, we launched a new rapid antigen test called BinaxNOW, which is a disposable test about the size of the credit card that can determine if someone is infected with the virus within 15 minutes without the use of an instrument. As I said, we’ve got over 100 new products in our pipeline that we’re going to invest in. Abbott’s transfer agent, Computershare, sponsors and administers the Computershare Investment Plan for Abbott Laboratories Common Stock. A lot of our investment here has been to drive organic growth. Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT) declares $0.36/share quarterly dividend, in line with previous. Abbott's cash dividend is payable May 15, 2020, to shareholders of record at the close of business on April 15, 2020. Dividend Summary. And we’re working with hospitals to assist them in opening and we’ll see it continue to grow. To-date, we’ve sold more than 100 million COVID tests across our diagnostic platforms. We saw a little bit of a July kind of pent up growth as the lockdown started to get reduced a little bit, we saw that growth rate in July. Economic, competitive, governmental, technological, and other factors that may affect Abbott’s operations are discussed in item 1A, Risk Factors to our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019, and in item 1A, Risk Factors in our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2020. But I think the rapid testing is not going to go away like that. And as you think about next year, and you think about new test capacity, Panbio, how should we be thinking or how are you thinking about sort of duration of testing relative to kind of a $2.7 billion base here in 2020? Your line is open. No, I don’t. Abbott Laboratories's last dividend payment date was on 2020-11-16, when Abbott Laboratories shareholders who owned ABT shares before 2020-10-14 received a dividend payment of $0.36 per share. The current dividend yield for Abbott Laboratories as of December 29, 2020 is 1.34% . But when — we looked at a lot of the data, and we started to see a similar trend in September than what we saw in June in the developed markets, right. So I think we’ll see some of the recovery there. But I think Q4 is going to be better than Q3. Sure. Robert B. Ford — President and Chief Executive Officer. Abbott Laboratories's next dividend payment date has not been announced yet. So Robert, maybe back in the fiscal ’21 question, I guess, maybe if I approach it slightly differently. If you look at how COVID kind of progressed a little bit, it hit the developed markets, I think harder in Q2, and then the emerging markets, it hit us more in Q3, especially markets like India, Russia, some markets in Latin America also. Freq. We’ve got over 100 new products in pipeline across all of our four businesses that we have planned to launch over the next couple of years. Computershare Investor Services So I’ll just kind of wrap up here, we’ve had a nice growth step up here in the third quarter. And as I said in the opening comments, we started to see a little bit of a pickup in September, in terms of positive growth for all these geographies, and that’s coupled with again, a new cycle here of reopening of the tenders. And I think we’re well positioned to go from what is a very good, strong year for us to an even better one in 2021. And then just wanted to ask on COVID testing, just focusing on the serology segment, can you give us a state of affairs for the demand level for COVID-19 antibody testing in the US and internationally, currently? To help provide a sense of the short to long-term trend, included is an interactive Abbott Laboratories stock chart which you can easily adjust to the time frame of your choosing (e.g. q3 earnings infographic investor newsletters. Abbott's cash dividend is payable August 17, 2020, to shareholders of record at the close of business on July 15, 2020. I think you said, maybe in the last earnings call with the vaccine — success with the vaccine programs could drive some incremental demand on the serology side, but thanks for taking the questions. We’ve increased our full year guidance, which now reflects double digit EPS growth and I think that’s pretty unique and differentiated in this environment. And we’ve increased our full year EPS guidance, which highlights the strength and resilience of our diversified business model. Unless otherwise noted, our commentary on sales growth refers to organic sales growth, which excludes the impact of foreign exchange. But I think there’s been a little bit of a price impact there also. jan 22. We’re forecasting double digit earnings growth this year, so when we look at the trajectory that we have going into 2021, which is a trajectory of strong double digit top and bottom line growth rates, I think that’s pretty differentiated and pretty unique here, because we’re not coming out of that hole. Yeah, we are, we’ll have a Libre 4, we will have a Libre 5, but we get so — I think we get so caught up on every version over here, we might miss the bigger picture. That’s helpful. And I have one follow up. Abbott undertakes no obligation to release publicly any revisions to forward-looking statements as a result of subsequent events or developments, except as required by law. Welcome to Abbott’s Third Quarter 2020 Earnings Conference Call. Abbott has increased its dividend payout for 48 consecutive years and is a member of the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index, which tracks companies that have annually increased their dividend for at least 25 consecutive years. I think even with a vaccine, you’re going to see kind of more of a steady state and we’ve talked about that and we planned for that. With that being said, let’s take a look back at my November 2020 dividend income. Abbott Laboratories reported Dividend Yield of 0.0135 in 2019. And I think that Abbott’s in a unique position with not only the platforms that we’ve developed, but the manufacturing and supply chain that we’ve assembled. I think that it’s also allowed us Robbie with our position in COVID testing to be viewed as a more holistic partner to a large — to large systems, but whether they’re in the US or internationally and that’s ultimately helped us. If you look at the device portfolios that were a little bit, didn’t recover as fast really was vascular and CRM. Thanks so much. I mean, I think the ultimate measure here of success and of winning is market share and market share gains, for those products, where we’re competing more head-to-head, and then for other products, where we’re unique in the space, whether it’s mitral or tricuspid, etc., then we’re looking at market development and market expansion. But obviously, if you look at the athletic training and sports population, it’s a significantly large population here. The other part of your question regarding kind of reinvesting in the business, well, we’re going to be able to do that next year and still deliver pretty differentiated, unique kind of earnings growth and earnings power. Yeah, I mean, I think we already had a real strong momentum before COVID with the rollout of the Alinity system. Leads 229 Securities Going Ex-Dividend This Week … We’ve seen a nice progression from Q2 to Q3. R&D investment was 6.3% of sales, and SG&A expense was 26.7% of sales. Robert, I wanted to maybe think about next year a little bit given we’re closing out this year and obviously investors are in the process of trying to figure out ’21 estimates for a whole bunch of companies and whether they’re achievable. Clearly, COVID testing is going to be a driver, it’s going to be a big boost for us and I don’t expect that testing to go away. And we’ve expanded our COVID testing platforms, adding more testing platforms, adding more capacity. I would now like to introduce Mr. Scott Leinenweber, Vice President, Investor Relations, Licensing and Acquisitions. But the installed base that we built during this period, the consumer behavior that’s been created, the new channels that we’ve opened up with rapid testing, whether it’s airports, retail stores, more physician’s offices, the app ecosystem that we’re building, all that is going to remain, and it’ll remain for all the other assays that we currently have and that we’ll be rolling out. The company said this is the 49th consecutive year it has increased its dividend payment. We can either accelerate their development and they’re coming to market, we’ve got opportunities to expand, market development, the opportunities that we have in MitraClip to be able to invest in that, strengthening of that market, strengthening our competitiveness. Your line is open. Any opinion expressed in the transcript does not necessarily reflect the views of AlphaStreet, Inc. © COPYRIGHT 2020, AlphaStreet, Inc. All rights reserved. Abbott makes no representation as to the accuracy of any information contained in the linked Web site. Based on our performance and momentum through the first nine months, along with our expectations for the remainder of the year, we increased our earnings per share guidance to at least $3.55 for the full year. I think some of those are affected by some of the pricing dynamics that still exist in that channel. We don’t see any changes, Vijay to our allocation strategy. ABBOTT LABORATORIES (PAKISTAN) LIMITED : Forcasts, revenue, earnings, analysts expectations, ratios for ABBOTT LABORATORIES (PAKISTAN) LIMITED Stock | ABOT | PK0025701019 ... 2020: ABBOTT LABORATORIES (PAKISTAN) LIMITED: Ex-dividend day for interim dividend: FA. Yeah, I don’t think we’re going to see that kind of decline in COVID testing. If you look at what we’ve done with COVID and the investments we’ve made there, the speed at which we’ve been able to make those investments and execute it because of that strategic flexibility that we have in the balance sheet, talked about manufacturing expansions with Libre, which we’re definitely going to need as we expand the portfolio and build the portfolio and other parts of our medical devices too. A couple of product questions and then one big picture question, Robert. Yeah. And if you look at what we’ve done with BinaxNOW, ID NOW, Panbio, I think those are perfect embodiments of that execution. I don’t think that COVID testing is going to go away anytime soon and I think it’s big. "Paying a strong and growing dividend is foundational to Abbott," said Robert B. Ford, president and chief executive officer, Abbott. Thank you. We’re in a very, very different position than that. Dividend Definition. On Friday, Abbott Laboratories undertook its long-standing annual ritual and raised its quarterly dividend. And we can continue to mass produce it and sell it at a fraction of the price so that you’re not really overburdening the healthcare system. If you look at electrophysiology that was an interesting one, where, when you look at the sales, we were hurt a little bit by the capital cycle, which is why we’re only at about 2%, 3%. Our next question comes from Larry Biegelsen from Wells Fargo. Abbott Laboratories (ABT) announced a 25% hike in its quarterly dividend to $0.45 per share from $0.36, marking the 49th consecutive year of increased dividend … We were having great share gains, both in the immunoassay, and then the clin chem business also. Thank you. These non-GAAP financial measures are reconciled with the comparable GAAP financial measures in our earnings news release and regulatory filings from today, which are available on our website at abbott.com. And then I think that TriClip and Tendyne are multibillion-dollar opportunities here for us that are as I described, very, very early in the innings. I think one of the things that’s definitely helped us in our diagnostic business has been our molecular platform with the Alinity m launch. Can you just give us an idea of how we should think about how much of the upside actually flows through the EPS versus how much of it gets invested? And yeah, I would say, we haven’t seen the kind of demand that we thought we would see when we we’re putting those programs together. On Libre Sense, listen we’ve always talked about, we could expand beyond diabetes. We’re also seeing a nice pickup here for the pediatric endocrinologist segment. Dividend Shot Clock® ... AbbVie, Oracle and Abbott Laboratories Go Ex-dividend This Week Shauvik Haldar | Jul 13, 2020 Check out the securities going ex-dividend this week. 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