SEC Form 4 · accession 0001179110-15-016518

ABBOTT LABORATORIES · ABT

Statement of changes in beneficial ownership, as filed. Original on EDGAR ↗

Reporting owner

Miles D White

Officer — Chairman and CEO · Director

Period of report

Dec 14, 2015

Accepted (ET)

Dec 18, 2015 · 5:01 pm EST

Rule 10b5-1 plan

unknown — predates the checkbox

Issuer CIK

0000001800

Table I — non-derivative securities

Security	Date	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Owned after	D/I	Nature of ownership
Common shares without par value	Dec 14, 2015	G	76,280	$0.00	D	1,394,153	D
Common shares without par value	Dec 16, 2015	M	438,000	$21.2194	A	1,832,153	D
Common shares without par value	Dec 16, 2015	S	296,778	$46.00	D	1,535,375	D
Common shares without par value	Dec 16, 2015	S	14,781	$46.005	D	1,520,594	D
Common shares without par value	Dec 16, 2015	S	400	$46.0075	D	1,520,194	D
Common shares without par value	Dec 16, 2015	S	89,114	$46.01	D	1,431,080	D
Common shares without par value	Dec 16, 2015	S	2,921	$46.015	D	1,428,159	D
Common shares without par value	Dec 16, 2015	S	12,150	$46.02	D	1,416,009	D
Common shares without par value	Dec 16, 2015	S	2,617	$46.025	D	1,413,392	D
Common shares without par value	Dec 16, 2015	S	200	$46.0275	D	1,413,192	D
Common shares without par value	Dec 16, 2015	S	14,439	$46.03	D	1,398,753	D
Common shares without par value	Dec 16, 2015	S	1,100	$46.035	D	1,397,653	D
Common shares without par value	Dec 16, 2015	S	1,300	$46.04	D	1,396,353	D
Common shares without par value	Dec 16, 2015	S	300	$46.045	D	1,396,053	D
Common shares without par value	Dec 16, 2015	S	1,900	$46.05	D	1,394,153	D
Common shares without par value^F2	Dec 14, 2015	G	630	$0.00	A	630	I	By wife
Common shares without par value^F2	Dec 14, 2015	G	300	$0.00	A	8,643	I	By son
Common shares without par value^F2	Dec 14, 2015	G	300	$0.00	A	8,552	I	By son
Common shares without par value^F2	Dec 14, 2015	G	630	$0.00	D	0	I	By wife
Common shares without par value^F2	Dec 14, 2015	G	175	$0.00	A	8,818	I	By son
Common shares without par value^F2	Dec 14, 2015	G	280	$0.00	A	8,832	I	By son
Common shares without par value^F1	holding	—	—		—	28,369	I	Profit Sharing Trust

Table II — derivative securities

Security	Conv. / exercise price	Date	Code	Shares	A/D	Exercisable	Expires	Underlying	Underlying shares	Owned after	D/I
Option (right to buy)^F3	$21.2194	Dec 16, 2015	M	438,000	D	Feb 17, 2009	Feb 16, 2016	Common shares	438,000	0	D

Explanation of responses

F1Balance in the Abbott Laboratories Stock Retirement Trust as of December 15, 2015.
F2The reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership of all securities held by his wife and sons.
F3Employee stock option granted pursuant to the Abbott Laboratories 1996 Incentive Stock Program, in a transaction exempt from Section 16 under Rule 16b-3.

Remarks

These option exercise and sale transactions were made pursuant to a previously adopted plan complying with Rule 10b5-1(c).