Abbott Laboratories Stock Debt To Equity

ABL Stock   109.66  1.56  1.44%   
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 Debt To Equity Analysis

Abbott Laboratories' Debt to Equity is calculated by dividing the Total Debt of a company by its Equity. If the debt exceeds equity of a company, then the creditors have more stakes in a firm than the stockholders. In other words, Debt to Equity ratio provides analysts with insights about composition of both equity and debt, and its influence on the valuation of the company.

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High Debt to Equity ratio typically indicates that a firm has been borrowing aggressively to finance its growth and as a result may experience a burden of additional interest expense. This may reduce earnings or future growth. On the other hand a small D/E ratio may indicate that a company is not taking enough advantage from financial leverage. Debt to Equity ratio measures how the company is leveraging borrowing against the capital invested by the owners.
Competition

According to the company disclosure, Abbott Laboratories has a Debt To Equity of 0.0%. This is 100.0% lower than that of the Healthcare sector and 100.0% lower than that of the Medical Devices industry. The debt to equity for all Germany stocks is 100.0% higher than that of the company.

Abbott Debt To Equity 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 Debt To Equity 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 debt to equity category among its peers.

Abbott Fundamentals

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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