Abbott Laboratories is engaged in pharmaceuticals and manufacturing healthcare products.
Abbott Laboratories is an American medical devices and health care company with headquarters in Abbott Park, Illinois, United States. The company was founded by Chicago physician Wallace Calvin Abbott in 1888 to formulate known drugs; today, it sells medical devices, diagnostics, branded generic medicines and nutritional products. It split off the research-based pharmaceuticals into AbbVie in 2013.
Among its well-known products across the medical devices, diagnostics, and nutrition product divisions are Pedialyte, Similac, Ensure, Glucerna, ZonePerfect, FreeStyle Libre, i-STAT and MitraClip.
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Abbott Laboratories’ coronavirus test, known as the BinaxNOW COVID-19 Ag Card, costs just $5 and provides results in 15 minutes without any lab equipment. It is highly reliable, with 97.1% sensitivity and 98.5% specificity.
After the Q2 report, Abbott (ABT) stock price is moving higher, setting new records. Today in the pre-market, it is up nearly 1.5%.
Abbott Laboratories stock price is rising today after dipping yesterday. ABT is trading at around $91.