Novartis Q2 2020 Earnings Call Jul 21, 2020, 8:00 a.m. Novartis AG said Wednesday that net income fell 5.9% in the final quarter of the year, hit by tax charges, but guided for growth in both sales and profit in 2020. However, the company thinks that its Sandoz unit will grow sales by a low single-digit percentage. However, lower sales for some products also contributed to the year-over-year earnings drop.Novartis expects that net sales for full-year 2020 will grow by a mid-single-digit percentage. Novartis also reported that Q2 sales more than doubled year over year to $118 million for cancer cell therapy Kymriah.The company had a potential catalyst on Tuesday, with Novartis announcing its second-quarter results before the market opened. Follow her on Twitter @bkollmeyer. This result narrowly missed the consensus Wall Street analysts' estimate of earnings of $1.35 per share.Novartis reported that its revenue in the second quarter fell 4% year over year to $11.3 billion. Net income can be defined as company's net profit or loss after all revenues, income items, and expenses have been accounted for. Novartis 2019 revenue: $47.45 billion 2018 revenue: $44.75 billion Headquarters: Basel, Switzerland.

Novartis Revenue growth (FY, 2016 - FY, 2017), % 1%. And while sales for autoimmune-disease drug Cosentyx rose 12% on a constant-currency basis to $944 million, the drug's growth was held back somewhat by the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak on dermatology and rheumatology practices.The company attributed its IFRS net income decline primarily to higher impairments. In 2018, Swiss-based Novartis was the third largest pharmaceutical company worldwide based on revenue from prescription drugs.In 2019, Novartis made some 47 billion U.S. dollars of revenue … ET. Novartis AG annual/quarterly net income history and growth rate from 2006 to 2020. Analysts were expecting that the company's revenue for the second quarter would be close to $12 billion.Founded in 1993 by brothers Tom and David Gardner, The Motley Fool helps millions of people attain financial freedom through our website, podcasts, books, newspaper column, radio show, and premium investing services.CEO Vas Narasimhan said, "We are on track to deliver on our commitment to drive consistent margin expansion and are excited by the progress of our deep mid to late stage pipeline to drive long-term growth." This excludes both the Alcon and Sandoz U.S. oral solids and dermatology business, as well as the introduction of generic competition to Gilenya and Sandostatin, it said.Sales of Zolgensma, a one-shot treatment for infant spinal muscular atrophy and which is now the world’s most expensive drug, totaled $186 million, an increase from $160 million which Novartis reported in the third quarter, but a little below the $196 million forecast by analysts at Jefferies.Novartis AG said Wednesday that net income fell 5.9% in the final quarter of the year, hit by tax charges, but guided for growth in both sales and profit in 2020.The continued momentum of its drugs Entresto and Cosentyx, combined with the launch of gene-therapy Zolgensma, helped drive growth at the topline, the pharmaceutical major said.Novartis attributed the fall in reported profit to higher taxes, including a one-time deferred tax expense.

Novartis kept things busy in 2019 as it continued to focus on … Novartis AG net income for the quarter ending June 30, 2020 was $1.867B , a 72.54% decline year-over-year. Here are the highlights of Novartis' Q2 update.Sales of eye-disease drug Lucentis were especially impacted by the pandemic, tumbling 24% year over year on a constant-currency basis to $401 million.

But Novartis projects that its core operating income will increase in full-year 2020 by a low double-digit percentage.Novartis announced non-IFRS core net income of $3.1 billion, or $1.36 per share. Novartis Net income (FY, 2017) 7.7 B. Novartis Cash, 31-Dec-2017 8.9 B. Novartis Revenue. Press Release Therapeutic Nuclear Medicines Market 2020: Global Industry Size, Share, Future Challenges, Revenue, Demand, Industry Growth and Top Players, Bayer, Novartis AG, …
NOVN.SW Mkt cap, 21-Jul-2020. Contents: Prepared Remarks; Questions and Answers; Call Participants; Prepared Remarks: … Looking ahead, Novartis said it expects sales in 2020 to grow by a mid- to high-single digit percentage, while core operating income is forecast to grow by a high-single to low-double digit percentage, all at constant currencies. One late-stage program for which Novartis has high hopes is Entresto in treating heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF).

Core operating income, a figure watched by analysts that strips out extraordinary items, was $3.46 billion, up from $3.11 billion in the fourth quarter of 2018.Apple reported June-quarter revenue of $59.7 billion, up 11% and well ahead of Wall Street’s $52.1 billion estimate.Barbara Kollmeyer is an editor for MarketWatch in Madrid. However, there wasn't enough good news in those results to excite investors.