Pfizer profits dip on lower Paxlovid sales

Pfizer profits dipped connected little income of Paxlovid. Photo: Patrick T. Fallon / AFP/File
Source: AFP

Pfizer reported a dip successful profits Tuesday, driven partially by little income of Covid-19 therapeutic cause Paxlovid, arsenic it maintained a 2025 forecast that does not see imaginable tariff effects.

Sales of Paxlovid slid 75 percent amid little Covid-19 infections and reduced authorities purchases of the medication.

But Pfizer scored higher revenues for its Covid-19 vaccine, on with immoderate different products, including the bosom medicine Vyndaqel and the crab cause Padcev.

Profits successful the archetypal 4th fell 5 percent to $3.0 billion, portion revenues dropped 8 percent to $13.7 billion.

Pfizer Chief Executive Albert Bourla said the company's discontinuation earlier this period of the Danuglipron obesity cause was the close telephone aft a subordinate successful a proceedings experienced a liver wounded that cleared up aft the attraction was stopped.

Pfizer is processing different medications successful the obesity and related areas and could prosecute "external opportunities" specified arsenic partnerships oregon acquisitions, Bourla said.

Pfizer is besides moving connected treatments for a fig of different ailments, including bladder crab and aggregate myeloma, Bourla said.

"We are connected way for a beardown twelvemonth of anticipated pipeline catalysts," helium said.

The drugmaker maintained its full-year income forecast of betwixt $61-64 billion. In 2024, Pfizer's revenues were $63.6 billion.

The projection "does not presently see immoderate imaginable interaction related to aboriginal tariffs and commercialized argumentation changes, which we are incapable to foretell astatine this time," Pfizer said.

Pfizer said it is connected way to present $4.5 cardinal successful outgo savings done the extremity of 2025. It besides is implementing a reorganization of its probe and development, and a manufacturing "optimization" program.

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Source: AFP