Company: ABBV
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001551152-25-000020
Chunk: 268

Company: AbbVie Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 5
Chunk 268
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ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT'S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES

Principal Market

The principal market for AbbVie's common stock is the New York Stock Exchange (Symbol: ABBV). AbbVie's common stock is also listed on the Chicago Stock Exchange and traded on various regional and electronic exchanges. 

Stockholders

There were 56,544 stockholders of record of AbbVie common stock as of January 31, 2025.

Performance Graph

The following graph compares the cumulative total returns of AbbVie, the S&P 500 Index and the NYSE Arca Pharmaceuticals Index for the period from December 31, 2019 through December 31, 2024. This graph assumes $100 was invested in AbbVie common stock and each index on December 31, 2019 and also assumes the reinvestment of dividends. The stock price performance on the following graph is not necessarily indicative of future stock price performance.

This performance graph is furnished and shall not be deemed "filed" with the SEC or subject to Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any of AbbVie's filings under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

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Dividends

On October 30, 2024, AbbVie's board of directors declared an increase in the company’s quarterly dividend from $1.55 per share to $1.64 per share, payable on February 14, 2025, to stockholders of record as of January 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. Moreover, if AbbVie determines to pay any dividend in the future, there can be no assurance that it will continue to pay such dividends or the amount of such dividends.

Issuer Purchases of Equity SecuritiesPeriod TotalNumberof Shares(or Units)PurchasedAveragePricePaid per Share(or Unit)Total