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Share Name | Share Symbol | Market | Type |
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Amgen Inc | NASDAQ:AMGN | NASDAQ | Common Stock |
Price Change | % Change | Share Price | Bid Price | Offer Price | High Price | Low Price | Open Price | Shares Traded | Last Trade | |
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33.02 | 11.86% | 311.41 | 311.40 | 311.95 | 322.54 | 308.68 | 313.42 | 9,644,684 | 00:59:30 |
By Adriano Marchese
Amgen Inc. on Wednesday reported a 3.1% rise in third-quarter profit, benefiting from higher revenue in the period, and said its share repurchases would be at the lower end of its guidance.
In the quarter, the Thousand Oaks, Calif.-based pharma company earned a profit of $2.02 billion, or $3.43 a share, compared with $1.97 billion, or $3.27 a share, for the same period last year.
Excluding items, Amgen reported a quarterly adjusted profit of $4.37 a share, beating consensus analyst forecasts of $3.80 a share taken from FactSet.
Total revenues rose to $6.42 billion from $5.74 billion, benefiting from a 12% increase in product sales. Amgen said this was driven by an 18% volume growth, but partly offset by declines in net selling prices.
Amgen said that it has seen physician-patient interactions and prescribing volumes continue to increase in the third quarter, but that they remain modestly below pre-Covid-19 levels on a portfolio basis.
"While prescription trends were more consistent throughout the third quarter versus the second quarter, we continue to expect quarter-to-quarter variability due to the pandemic," it said.
Looking ahead to the full year, the company said that total revenues guidance was narrowed to between $25.1 billion and $25.5 billion, while EPS guidance has been revised to between $11.53 and $11.93. Adjusted EPS, meanwhile, is now expected to be between $15.80 and $16.15.
The company said it will maintain its quarterly dividend at $1.60 but that its share repurchases will be at the lower end of its previous guidance of between $3 billion to $5 billion.
Write to Adriano Marchese at adriano.marchese@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
October 28, 2020 16:22 ET (20:22 GMT)
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