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| 2 December 2024, Monday |

Pfizer revenues likely to reach $33.5 billion in 2021

Pfizer revealed its annual revenue and profit forecast Wednesday as it projects the delivery of 500 million more Covid-19 vaccine doses compared with earlier expectations.

The two-shot vaccination accounted for more than 40 percent of Pfizer’s sales in Q2, lifting revenues sharply compared with the year-ago period.

Pfizer Chief Executive Albert Bourla said more than a billion doses of the vaccine have been delivered, saying “the speed and efficiency of our efforts with BioNTech to help inoculate the world against Covid-19 have been unprecedented.”

The US drugmaker, which has partnered with Germany’s BioNTech on the vaccine, now estimates delivering 2.1 billion doses, generating $33.5 billion in sales.

The company’s May forecast was for $26 billion in sales on 1.6 billion doses for the year.

Pfizer said the pre-tax profit margin on the Covid-19 vaccine sales was in the “high-20s” in terms of percent, the same as the earlier forecast.

Those profit margins have raised the ire of non-government organizations such as Public Citizen, which has accused Pfizer of “profiteering” on the pandemic and called on world leaders to launch a multi-billion dollar campaign to build vaccine manufacturing capacity and “vaccinate the world.”

In the second quarter, Pfizer reported profits of $5.6 billion, up 59 percent from the year-ago period on a 92 percent increase in revenues to $19 billion.

Shares of Pfizer rose 0.9 percent to $42.47 in pre-market trading.

    Source:
  • AFP
  • Reuters