AZN Astrazeneca Plc

By Ian Walker

AstraZeneca PLC on Friday reported a swing to second-quarter net loss after booking a large foreign-exchange charge in its accounts, but raised its full-year revenue guidance due to better-than-expected Covid-19 medicine revenue.

The Anglo-Swedish pharma giant said it now expects to report a low twenties percentage rise in total revenue for the year, up from previous guidance of high teens percentage. It also said revenue from Covid-19 medicines are expected to be flat compared with 2021. It had previously guided for a low-to-mid twenties percentage fall.

AstraZeneca posted a net loss of $372 million for the quarter compared with a profit of $1.19 billion for the same period a year earlier.

Revenue for the quarter rose to $10.77 billion, from $8.22 billion. Revenue consensus was $10.45 billion.

Core earnings per share--one of the company's preferred metrics--rose to $1.72 in the quarter, compared with $0.90 and a consensus of $1.57.

Consensus figures have been taken from FactSet and are based on 16 analysts' projections.

AstraZeneca reiterated that it expects core EPS growth in the mid-to-high twenties percentage.

The board has increased its interim dividend to $0.93 a share compared with $0.90 for the first half of 2021.

Write to Ian Walker at ian.walker@wsj.com

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July 29, 2022 02:54 ET (06:54 GMT)

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