---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-040201"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ABT"
cik: "0000001800"
company_name: "ABBOTT LABORATORIES"
filed_at: "2025-04-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T05:08:24.773869+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Abbott annual meeting results: all directors elected, auditor ratified, say-on-pay approved

## Summary
- All 12 director nominees elected; Nancy McKinstry received 1.12B for vs 243.9M against (82%).
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as independent auditor passed with 1.50B votes for, 36.6M against.
- Advisory say-on-pay vote approved with 89.90% of votes cast in favor (1.22B for, 130.7M against).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-040201
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ABT
- cik: 0000001800
- company_name: ABBOTT LABORATORIES
- filed_at: 2025-04-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1800/000110465925040201/0001104659-25-040201-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1800/000110465925040201/tm2513267d1_8k.htm

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