Company: ABBV
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001551152-25-000040
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Company: AbbVie Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
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. Financing cash flows for the six months ended June 30, 2024 included the issuance of unsecured senior notes totaling $15.0 billion aggregate principal which were used to finance the acquisitions of ImmunoGen and Cerevel Therapeutics. Additionally, financing cash flows included the issuance and repayment of $5.0 billion under the term loan credit agreement and repayments of €1.5 billion aggregate principal amount of 1.38% senior euro notes, €700 million aggregate principal amount of 1.25% senior euro notes, $1.0 billion aggregate principal amount of 3.85% senior notes and $99 million of secured term notes assumed from ImmunoGen in conjunction with the acquisition.

Financing cash flows also included cash dividend payments of $5.8 billion for the six months ended June 30, 2025 and $5.5 billion for the six months ended June 30, 2024. The increase in cash dividend payments was primarily driven by the increase in the quarterly dividend rate.

On June 20, 2025, the company announced that its board of directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $1.64 per share for stockholders of record at the close of business on July 15, 2025, payable on August 15, 2025. The timing, declaration, amount of and payment of any dividends by AbbVie in the future is within the discretion of its board of directors and will depend upon many factors, including AbbVie’s financial condition, earnings, capital requirements of its operating subsidiaries, covenants associated with certain of AbbVie’s debt service obligations, legal requirements, regulatory constraints, industry practice, ability to access capital markets and other factors deemed relevant by its board of directors. 

The company's stock repurchase authorization permits purchases of AbbVie shares from time to time in open-market or private transactions at management's discretion. The program has no time limit and can be discontinued at any time. On February 16, 2023, AbbVie’s board of directors authorized a $5.0 billion increase to the existing stock repurchase authorization. AbbVie repurchased 3 million shares for $606 million during the six months ended June 30, 2025 and 5 million shares for $959 million during the six months ended June 30, 2024.

During the six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, the company issued and redeemed commercial