Medication company Viatris (NASDAQ: VTRS) will be announcing earnings results this Thursday before market hours. Here’s what to expect.
Viatris beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $3.76 billion, flat year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ revenue estimates and full-year revenue guidance slightly topping analysts’ expectations.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Viatris’s revenue to be flat year on year, improving from the 8.1% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year.
Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Viatris has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Viatris’s peers in the pharmaceuticals segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Eli Lilly delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 42.6%, beating analysts’ expectations by 7.4%, and Bristol-Myers Squibb reported revenues up 1.4%, topping estimates by 4.8%. Eli Lilly traded up 1.7% following the results while Bristol-Myers Squibb was also up 7.6%.
Read our full analysis of Eli Lilly’s results here and Bristol-Myers Squibb’s results here.
Debates over possible tariffs and corporate tax adjustments have raised questions about economic stability in 2025. While some of the pharmaceuticals stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 3.7% on average over the last month. Viatris is up 21.5% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $14.11 (compared to the current share price of $16).
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