ABB stock gains as buyback pace accelerates and guidance is raised

Published on 09/19/2026 at 12:25 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS

ABB stock climbed on SIX Swiss Exchange on September 18, 2026, trading at 80.98 CHF, 1.8% above the prior close. The company has stepped up share buybacks and raised its full-year revenue guidance into a low double-digit growth range.

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ABB Ltd stock (ISIN CH0012221716) traded at about 80.98 CHF on SIX Swiss Exchange as of September 18, 2026, up 1.8% on the day and sitting more than 30% above its 52-week low, giving investors a firm starting point for assessing the latest buyback and guidance moves in the Zurich-based industrial group.

Buyback tempo and acquisition strategy support ABB stock

According to IT BOLTWISE on September 18, 2026, ABB kept its share repurchase program running at a high pace, buying an additional 500,652 shares between September 10 and September 16, 2026, after having repurchased 476,918 shares in the previous week, signaling a sustained commitment to capital returns.

In the same report, ABB is described as coupling these buybacks with portfolio expansion, most prominently the planned acquisition of Rotork, a specialist in industrial systems and components, where shareholders recently approved a deal valued at around USD 5.5 billion with completion targeted for the first half of 2027, and the already closed acquisition of Italian medium-voltage transformer maker Specialtrasfo as of July 1, 2026, which had generated about EUR 80 million in revenue with roughly 130 employees in its latest fiscal year.

Recent results and upgraded revenue outlook

IT BOLTWISE highlights that ABB’s upgraded guidance rests on an improved operating performance, noting that in the second quarter of 2026 the group achieved an operational EBITA margin of 20.2 percent while earnings per share rose 8 percent to 0.68 USD compared with the prior-year period, a combination that has allowed ABB to raise its full-year 2026 revenue outlook to low double-digit to low-teens percentage growth rather than the previously more moderate range.

Further detail on ABB’s latest reported figures comes from finanzen.ch, which states that on July 16, 2026 ABB presented its quarterly results for the period ended June 30, 2026, reporting earnings per share of 0.54 CHF, slightly above the 0.52 CHF per share recorded in the same quarter a year earlier, while revenue climbed about 2.7 percent from 7.31 billion CHF to 7.51 billion CHF.

That same finanzen.ch coverage notes that analysts expect full-year 2026 earnings per share of 3.37 USD, providing a quantitative benchmark for investors against the upgraded revenue guidance and the company’s ongoing margin ambitions, and the article also points out that ABB distributed a dividend of 0.940 CHF for fiscal 2025, with expectations of 1.18 USD per share for the current year, underscoring the total-return context in which the current buybacks are taking place.

Share price level, range and next earnings date

According to finanzen.ch on September 18, 2026, ABB stock was quoted at 80.98 CHF on SIX Swiss Exchange at 12:28 p.m. local time, 1.8 percent above the prior close of 79.52 CHF, with intraday trading having reached a high of 81.08 CHF and volume amounting to 2,313,719 shares, while the 52-week high stands at 89.14 CHF, set on June 22, 2026, and the 52-week low at 53.78 CHF on November 18, 2025, meaning the stock was trading roughly 9.2 percent below its yearly high and about 50.6 percent above its yearly low at that midday snapshot.

The same finanzen.ch article indicates that ABB plans to publish its third-quarter 2026 financial results on October 20, 2026, with expectations for the third quarter including a further improvement in operational margin relative to the second quarter level cited by IT BOLTWISE, which would allow investors to test whether the combination of buybacks, M&A integration and organic performance can indeed sustain the elevated guidance and justify the current valuation.

ABB stock price and market metrics

ABB’s primary listing is on SIX Swiss Exchange under the ticker ABBN, and the latest available data show the shares around 80.98 CHF as of September 18, 2026, with market capitalization in the order of about CHF 108 billion based on recent price and share count data, positioning the company as one of the larger constituents of the Swiss Market Index and highlighting why the accelerated buyback program and raised guidance carry significant weight for regional equity benchmarks and for global industrial investors alike.