AbbVie Inc.
BG ˙ BUL ˙ US00287Y1091
SecurityBG:4AB / AbbVie Inc.
InstitutionBlackRock, Inc.
Latest Disclosed Ownership143,180,060 shares
Ownership 8.10%
BlackRock, Inc. ownership in 4AB / AbbVie Inc.

2024-01-25 - BlackRock, Inc. has filed an SC 13G/A form with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosing ownership of 143,180,060 shares of AbbVie Inc. (BG:4AB). This represents 8.1 percent ownership of the company. In their previous filing dated 2023-02-16 , BlackRock, Inc. had reported owning 138,702,758 shares, indicating an increase of 3.23 percent.

BlackRock, Inc. has a history of taking positions in derivatives of the underlying security (4AB) in the form of stock options. The firm currently holds call options representing 51,500 of underlying shares valued at $11,200,735 USD and put options representing 0 of underlying shares valued at $0 USD .

Note: prior versions of this page mistakenly stated that the share values represented the number of options, not the number of underlying shares. For more information on the data backing these reports, please see the SEC document Frequently Asked Questions About Form 13F.

Institutional Ownership: 13D/G Filings

This table shows a history of the 13D/G filings made by the investor and/or investor group. Note that the share values in this table are not directly comparable to any numbers shown in the 13F table (if any).

File
Date
Effective
Date
Form Prev
Shares
Latest
Shares
ΔShares
(Percent)
Ownership
(Percent)
ΔOwnership
(Percent)
2024-01-25 2024-01-25 13G/A 138,702,758 143,180,060 3.23 8.10 3.85
2023-02-16 2023-02-16 13G/A 128,197,555 138,702,758 8.19 7.80 6.85
2022-02-03 2022-02-03 13G/A 124,423,484 128,197,555 3.03 7.30 4.29
2021-01-29 2021-01-29 13G/A 98,593,810 124,423,484 26.20 7.00 4.48
2021-01-29 2021-01-29 13G/A 124,423,484 124,423,484 0.00 7.00 0.00
2020-02-05 2020-02-05 13G/A 95,788,899 98,593,810 2.93 6.70 4.69
2019-02-04 2019-02-04 13G/A 101,322,201 95,788,899 -5.46 6.40 1.59
2018-02-08 2018-02-08 13G/A 92,418,567 101,322,201 9.63 6.30 10.53
2017-01-19 2017-01-19 13G/A 99,591,579 92,418,567 -7.20 5.70 -6.56
2016-02-10 2016-02-10 13G/A 99,591,579 6.10
2015-02-09 2015-02-09 13G/A 114,453,015 7.20
2014-01-28 2014-01-28 13G 105,532,577 6.60

Important Note: One of the primary uses of the 13D/G filings is to evaluate the ability of a firm to control a company (ie, the "beneficial ownership"). To that end, firms are required to report not just direct holdings in companies, but indirect holdings that they control. For investment firms, these indirect holdings can include shares in funds they manage, advisory accounts, and in the case of activist campaigns, pledged votes. Therefore, share counts listed in 13D/G filings can differ significantly than share counts listed in 13F filings.

Institutional Ownership: 13F and NPORT Filings

The Security and Class in the table below are shown exactly as filed by the investor. We do our best to track continuity of investments through acquisitions, and this will be reflected in the table as changes in names. In addition to descriptive data, performance of the investment is shown over time. To calculate quarterly performance, we first calculate cost basis of the shares purchased during the quarter, then use that to calculate gross profit. Quarterly return is Gross Profit / Starting Portfolio value.

Note that cost basis is calculated and stored in thousands, so small quarterly changes in shares frequently result in a cost basis of zero.

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Institutional Put/Call Ratios
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In addition to reporting standard equity and debt issues, institutions with more than 100MM assets under management must also disclose their put and call option holdings. Since put options generally indicate negative sentiment, and call options indicate positive sentiment, we can get a sense of the overall institutional sentiment by plotting the ratio of puts to calls. The chart to the right plots the historical put/call ratio for this instrument.

Using Put/Call Ratio as an indicator of investor sentiment overcomes one of the key deficiencies of using total institutional ownership, which is that a significant amount of assets under management are invested passively to track indices. Passively-managed funds do not typically buy options, so the put/call ratio indicator more closely tracks the sentiment of actively-managed funds.

BG:4AB / AbbVie Inc. Historical Put/Call Ratio
Disclosed Equity Positions (from 13F/NPORT Filings)
File
Date
Effective
Date
Form Security Class ID Avg Price
Paid (Est)
Reported
Shares
ΔShares ΔShares
(%)
Reported
Value
(x1000)
ΔValue
(%)
Alloc
(%)
ΔAlloc ΔAlloc (%) Cost Basis
(x1000)
Unrealized
Gain/Loss
(x1000)
2026-05-13 2026-03-31 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 150,698,125 -476,418 -0.32 32,775,335 -5.11 0.5726
2026-02-12 2025-12-31 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 151,174,543 5,197,454 3.56 34,541,871 2.20 0.5838
2025-11-12 2025-09-30 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 145,977,089 -1,478,975 -1.00 33,799,535 23.49 0.5917
2025-08-12 2025-06-30 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 147,456,064 1,577,922 1.08 27,370,794 -10.45 0.5210
2025-05-02 2025-03-31 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 145,878,142 3,842,577 2.71 30,564,388 21.10 0.6420
2025-02-07 2024-12-31 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 142,035,565 6,062,998 4.46 25,239,720 -6.00 0.5107
2024-11-13 2024-09-30 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 135,972,567 -458,943 -0.34 26,851,863 14.75 0.5637
2024-08-13 2024-06-30 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 136,431,510 -6,527,594 -4.57 23,400,733 -10.11 0.5296
2024-05-10 2024-03-31 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 142,959,104 -223,605 -0.16 26,032,853 17.32 0.6060
2024-02-13 2023-12-31 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 143,182,709 5,165,853 3.74 22,189,024 7.86 0.5658
2023-11-13 2023-09-30 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 138,016,856 -1,144,940 -0.82 20,572,793 9.73 0.5916
2023-08-11 2023-06-30 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 139,161,796 440,286 0.32 18,749,269 -15.19 0.5168
2023-05-12 2023-03-31 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 138,721,510 18,752 0.01 22,108,047 -1.37 0.6521
2023-02-13 2022-12-31 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 138,702,758 5,742,609 4.32 22,415,753 25.62 0.7023
2022-11-14 2022-09-30 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 132,960,149 -1,740,499 -1.29 17,844,581 -13.50 0.6069
2022-08-12 2022-06-30 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 134,700,648 5,069,770 3.91 20,630,752 -1.83 0.6618
2022-05-12 2022-03-31 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 129,630,878 1,433,324 1.12 21,014,462 21.07 0.5661
2022-02-10 2021-12-31 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 128,197,554 1,358,115 1.07 17,357,949 26.87 0.4420
2021-11-09 2021-09-30 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 126,839,439 4,247,445 3.46 13,682,169 -0.92 0.3831
2021-08-11 2021-06-30 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 122,591,994 -4,024,003 -3.18 13,808,761 0.78 0.3844
2021-05-07 2021-03-31 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 126,615,997 2,192,513 1.76 13,702,386 2.78 0.4027
2021-02-05 2020-12-31 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 124,423,484 2,406,847 1.97 13,331,975 24.74 0.4253
2020-11-06 2020-09-30 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 122,016,637 -1,339,787 -1.09 10,687,437 -11.76 0.3944
2020-08-14 2020-06-30 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 123,356,424 21,974,440 21.67 12,111,133 56.79 0.4834
2020-05-01 2020-03-31 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 101,381,984 2,788,174 2.83 7,724,294 -11.52 0.3778
2020-02-13 2019-12-31 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 98,593,810 -3,045,226 -3.00 8,729,497 13.43 0.3347
2019-11-08 2019-09-30 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 101,639,036 3,343,764 3.40 7,696,109 7.67 0.3232
2019-08-22 2019-06-30 13F/A-1 ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 98,295,272 3,100,309 3.26 7,148,030 -6.83 0.3058
2019-08-13 2019-06-30 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 98,295,272 3,100,309 7,148,030
2019-05-09 2019-03-31 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 95,194,963 -593,936 -0.62 7,671,760 -13.12 0.3425
2019-02-08 2018-12-31 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 95,788,899 237,268 0.25 8,830,777 -2.28 0.4458
2018-11-09 2018-09-30 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 95,551,631 -653,053 -0.68 9,037,277 1.39 0.3910
2018-08-09 2018-06-30 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 96,204,684 -3,840,394 -3.84 8,913,362 -5.87 0.4106
2018-05-09 2018-03-31 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 100,045,078 -1,277,123 -1.26 9,469,267 -3.36 0.4527
2018-02-09 2017-12-31 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 101,322,201 2,714,857 2.75 9,798,871 11.83 0.4662
2017-11-14 2017-09-30 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 98,607,344 4,532,382 4.82 8,762,249 28.45 0.4421
2017-08-10 2017-06-30 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 94,074,962 1,864,418 2.02 6,821,375 13.53 0.3617
2017-05-12 2017-03-31 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 92,210,544 88,237,132 2,220.69 6,008,440 2,314.82 0.3298
2017-02-10 2016-12-31 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 3,973,412 -210,973 -5.04 248,815 -5.72 0.3521
2016-11-08 2016-09-30 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 4,184,385 -304,775 -6.79 263,909 -5.04 0.3789
2016-08-10 2016-06-30 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 4,489,160 563,107 14.34 277,924 23.93 0.4182
2016-05-10 2016-03-31 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 3,926,053 -1,485,506 -27.45 224,257 -30.05 0.3607
2016-02-11 2015-12-31 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 5,411,559 -360,562 -6.25 320,581 2.08 0.4703
2015-11-13 2015-09-30 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 5,772,121 -157,513 -2.66 314,061 -21.17 0.4922
2015-08-07 2015-06-30 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 5,929,634 -884,768 -12.98 398,412 -0.13 0.5908
2015-05-13 2015-03-31 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 6,814,402 873,003 14.69 398,915 2.60 0.5513
2015-02-09 2014-12-31 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 5,941,399 399,111 7.20 388,804 21.45 0.5559
2014-10-29 2014-09-30 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 5,542,288 -768,934 -12.18 320,123 -10.13 0.4679
2014-08-06 2014-06-30 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 6,311,222 5,820 0.09 356,205 9.91 0.5297
2014-05-02 2014-03-31 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 6,305,402 -93,759 -1.47 324,098 -4.10 0.5234
2014-02-12 2013-12-31 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 6,399,161 615,123 10.63 337,940 30.62 0.5517
2013-11-12 2013-09-30 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 5,784,038 -255,619 -4.23 258,719 3.62 0.4876
2013-08-13 2013-06-30 13F ABBVIE COM 00287Y109 6,039,657 6,039,657 249,679 0.4949
Disclosed Call Options
File
Date
Effective
Date
Form Security Class ID Opt Avg Share
Price
Shares ΔShares
(%)
Value
(x1000)
ΔValue
(%)
Prior Allocation
(%)
Allocation
(%)
ΔAllocation
(%)
Cost Basis
(x1000)
Profit
(x1000)
Return
(%)
2026-05-13 2026-03-31 13F ABBVIE OPTIONS Call 51,500 11,201 n/a n/a n/a
2017-02-10 2016-12-31 13F ABBVIE OPTIONS Call 0 -100.00 0 -100.00 n/a n/a n/a
2016-11-08 2016-09-30 13F ABBVIE OPTIONS Call 1,500 95 n/a n/a n/a
Disclosed Put Options
File
Date
Effective
Date
Form Security Class ID Opt Avg Share Price Shares ΔShares
(%)
Value
(x1000)
ΔValue
(%)
Prior Allocation
(%)
Allocation
(%)
ΔAllocation
(%)
Cost Basis
(x1000)
Profit
(x1000)
Return
(%)
2023-05-12 2023-03-31 13F ABBVIE OPTIONS Put 0 -100.00 0 -100.00 n/a n/a n/a
2023-02-13 2022-12-31 13F ABBVIE OPTIONS Put 240,000 38,786 n/a n/a n/a
Legend
Shares
The total number of shares held by the institution at the end of the reporting period (the effective date). This is provided in the filing.
Value
The total value of the shares as of the effective date. This is provided in the filing.
Avg. Share Price
The weighted average share price of the shares held by the institution. We use FIFO accounting to determine this price
Class
This is the security class as indicated by the filer. There are a variety of values for this field. Common values include "EC" = equity common, "EP" - equity preferred
Allocation (%)
The percent of the institution's portfolio that this position represents. This is provided in NPORT filings. For 13F filings, we calculate it.
Change in Allocation
The change in allocation from the prior reporting period. This is calculated as current allocation - prior allocation.
Change in Allocation (%)
The percent change in allocation from the prior reporting period. This is calculated as (current allocation - prior allocation) / prior allocation.
Cost Basis
The total cost of the shares held. This is calculated as reported shares * avg. share price
Unrealized Gain/Loss
This is the market value of the position as of the effective date minus the cost basis.