$ABT

Robert B. Ford

Abbott Laboratories

Chairman & CEO • Since 2020 • Health Care

📊 CEO Reputation Score

FY2025 vs FY2024 · Source: SEC EDGAR filings

33/100

Blend of this company's year-over-year free-cash-flow and profit improvement, each ranked as a percentile against every scored company in the three indexes.

Free cash flow: $6.4B → $7.4B (+16.4% YoY) — fiscal 2025 vs fiscal 2024
Profit (net income): $13.4B → $6.5B (−51.3% YoY) — fiscal 2025 vs fiscal 2024

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Overview

Robert B. Ford is the chairman & ceo of Abbott Laboratories since 2020. Abbott Laboratories is a Health Care company headquartered in North Chicago, Illinois, founded in 1888, and one of the 500 companies in the S&P 500 — every one of which is profiled on this site.

Leadership

Robert holds the chief executive role at Abbott Laboratories with the title Chairman & CEO — in post since 2020. This page is the concise leadership record for Abbott Laboratories in the S&P 500 CEO index; the site's fully researched long-form profiles (career timelines, education, achievements, setbacks, philosophy and sourced quotes) currently cover the index's ten largest companies, and this entry will be expanded in the same format.

At a Glance

Sector: Health Care
Ticker: $ABT
Headquarters: North Chicago, Illinois
Founded: 1888
CEO since: 2020
Index: S&P 500 (#3 of 500)