Merck (MRK) earnings Q3 2024

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Merck (MRK) earnings Q3 2024

The exterior view of the entrance to Merck headquarters in Rahway, New Jersey, on Feb. 5, 2024.

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Merck on Thursday

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third-quarter revenue and adjusted earnings that topped expectations as the company saw strong sales from its top-selling ******* ***** Keytruda, recently launched treatments and its animal health business. 

But Merck’s vaccine that prevents ******* from HPV, the most common ********* transmitted infection in the U.S., posted another quarter of lighter-than-expected sales. Revenue from the shot, Gardasil, fell 11% compared to the year-earlier *******, mainly due to lower demand in China. 

The pharmaceutical giant narrowed its full-year sales forecast to a range of $63.6 billion to $64.1 billion, from a previous guidance of $63.4 billion to $64.4 billion. 

Merck also lowered its adjusted profit guidance from a range of $7.72 to $7.77 per share, from a previous forecast of $7.94 to $8.04 per share. That updated

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reflects a one-time charge of 24 cents per share related to business development deals with Curon Biopharmaceutical and Daiichi Sankyo. 

Here’s what Merck reported for the

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compared with what Wall Street was expecting, based on a survey of analysts by LSEG: 

Earnings per share: $1.57 adjusted vs. $1.50 expectedRevenue: $16.66 billion vs. $16.46 billion expected

Merck posted net income of $3.16 billion, or $1.24 per share, for the third quarter. That compares with net income of $4.75 billion, or $1.86 per share, during the year-earlier *******. 

Excluding acquisition and restructuring costs, Merck earned $1.57 per share for the three-month *******. 

The company booked $16.66 billion in revenue for the third quarter, up 4% from the same ******* a year ago.

The results come as Merck shows substantial progress in preparing for Keytruda’s patent expiration in 2028. The loss of exclusive rights to the medicine will likely cause sales to fall, forcing the company to draw revenue from elsewhere.

But Merck has a handful of new deals under its belt and key ***** launches that will help it offset those losses. That includes Winrevair, a medication approved in the U.S. in March to treat a progressive and life-threatening lung condition. 

And Capvaxive, a vaccine designed to protect adults from a bacteria known as pneumococcus that can cause serious illnesses and lung infection, was approved in the U.S. in June. 

Pharmaceutical unit beats estimates

Merck’s pharmaceutical division, which develops a wide range of drugs, booked $14.94 billion in revenue during the third quarter, up 5% from the same ******* a year ago.

The company’s immunotherapy ***** Keytruda recorded $7.43 billion in revenue during the quarter, up 17% from the year-earlier *******. Analysts had been expecting $7.33 billion in Keytruda sales, according to estimates from StreetAccount. 

That increase was driven by higher uptake of Keytruda for earlier-stage cancers and strong demand for the ***** for metastatic cancers, which spread to other parts of the body. 

Gardasil brought in $2.31 billion in sales, down 11% from the third quarter of 2023. Merck said the decline was primarily due to lower demand in China compared with the year-earlier *******. It was partially offset by higher sales in the U.S. 

That is below the $2.51 billion that analysts expected, according to StreetAccount. 

Winrevair posted $149 million in revenue for the third quarter following its approval in March. Analysts had expected the treatment to book $127 million in sales. 

The company’s Type 2 diabetes treatment, Januvia, saw $482 million in sales, down 42% from the same ******* a year ago. Merck said the decline was primarily due to lower prices of the ***** in the U.S., along with generic competition in several countries. 

Analysts had expected the ***** to rake in $610 million in sales, StreetAccount said. 

Januvia is one of 10 drugs targeted in ongoing Medicare ***** price negotiations, a policy that aims to make costly medications more affordable for seniors. Those price talks, a key provision of President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, will end at the beginning of August.

Sales of Merck’s Covid antiviral pill, Lagevrio, also fell 40% to $383 million during the quarter. 

Still, that topped analysts’ expectations of $124.2 million in sales, according to StreetAccount.  

Merck’s animal health division, which develops vaccines and medicines for dogs, cats and cattle, posted $1.49 billion in sales for the third quarter. That is up 6% from the year-earlier ******* and slightly above what analysts surveyed by StreetAccount were expecting.

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