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AbbVie (ABBV)
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AbbVie (ABBV) Operating Expense Breakdown

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Operating Expense Breakdown

Lists R&D, selling & marketing, and administrative costs so you can see how AbbVie balances spending on new drugs versus commercial efforts and overhead. Shifts in these buckets signal priorities — more R&D points to pipeline investment, rising SG&A can reflect heavy marketing of new launches, and efficiency gains matter for future margins and free cash flow.
AbbVie’s expense profile shows rising core R&D investment and relatively disciplined SG&A, but large, lumpy acquired IPR&D charges drive quarter‑to‑quarter volatility and can meaningfully depress reported margins. Management explicitly excludes future IPR&D from guidance, signaling these are treated as strategic, nonrecurring bets to accelerate the pipeline—supporting Skyrizi/Rinvoq and new neuroscience/obesity programs—but investors should focus on the underlying R&D run‑rate and adjusted margins rather than headline swings caused by acquisition-related charges.
Date
Research and Development
Selling, General, and Administrative
Other
Acquired In-Process R&D
Jun 30, 2026
$2.34B$3.63B$0.00$291.00M
Mar 31, 2026
$2.47B$3.58B$0.00$744.00M
Dec 31, 2025
$2.58B$3.90B-$217.00M$1.26B
Sep 30, 2025
$2.32B$3.57B$0.00$2.68B
Jun 30, 2025
$2.13B$3.25B-$24.00M$823.00M
Mar 31, 2025
$2.07B$3.29B$0.00$248.00M
Dec 31, 2024
$6.77B$3.85B-$7.00M$1.57B
Sep 30, 2024
$2.13B$4.21B$0.00$82.00M
Jun 30, 2024
$1.95B$3.38B$0.00$937.00M
Mar 31, 2024
$1.94B$3.31B$0.00$164.00M