Incentive Stock Programs

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2014

Note 8 — Incentive Stock Programs

In the first six months of 2014, Abbott granted 3,721,084 stock options, 546,800 restricted stock awards and 5,318,607 restricted stock units under its incentive stock programs. At June 30, 2014, approximately 110 million shares were reserved for future grants. Information regarding the number of stock options outstanding and exercisable at June 30, 2014 is as follows:

	Outstanding		Exercisable
Number of shares	40,505,063		33,055,510
Weighted average remaining life (years)	4.3		3.3
Weighted average exercise price	$	27.38	$	25.36
Aggregate intrinsic value (in millions)	$	551	$	517

The total unrecognized share-based compensation cost at June 30, 2014 amounted to approximately $222 million which is expected to be recognized over the next three years.

- Definition

The entire disclosure for compensation-related costs for equity-based compensation, which may include disclosure of policies, compensation plan details, allocation of equity compensation, incentive distributions, equity-based arrangements to obtain goods and services, deferred compensation arrangements, employee stock ownership plan details and employee stock purchase plan details.

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