{"id":141634,"date":"2021-11-16T07:59:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T11:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=141634"},"modified":"2021-11-16T07:59:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T11:59:53","slug":"astrazeneca-rakes-in-25-4-billion-for-the-first-9-months-of-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/astrazeneca-rakes-in-25-4-billion-for-the-first-9-months-of-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"AstraZeneca rakes in $25.4 billion for the first 9 months of 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"antig-323795581\" class=\"antig-ecab antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/discoverflow.co\/web\/antigua\" aria-label=\"ANU CVP Digital Broadband 1200x400_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  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\/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\" data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_F3091205-2CFC-56BB-B86D-13A0A7D445BD\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"><strong>(CNN Business)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/cite>AstraZeneca\u00a0(<span class=\"inlink_chart\"><a class=\"inlink\" href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=AZN&amp;source=story_quote_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AZN<\/a><\/span>)\u00a0has booked its first profit from sales of its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/specials\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak-intl-hnk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Covid-19<\/a>\u00a0vaccine.<\/p><div id=\"antig-2289181538\" class=\"antig-content_5 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ablpag\" aria-label=\"Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px\"><img 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https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1536\/h:864\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\" data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_DE8F0447-24A8-BB6F-D5F7-13EEC331F04E\">The company sold $2.2 billion worth of the shot in the first nine months of the year. In the quarter ending September 30, the vaccine\u2019s<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>sales totalled $1.05 billion, contributing one cent to<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>earnings per share.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\" data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_43062782-A3AF-B4C5-6B90-13A0A7D70418\">Announcing its earnings<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>on Friday, the UK\u2019s largest pharmaceutical company said it expected to see modest profits from the vaccine in the final quarter of this year, as it gave guidance on the sales impact of its Covid-19 vaccine for the first time.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad ad--epic ad--tablet\" data-ad-text=\"show\">\n<div data-ad-id=\"ad_nat_btf_01\" data-ad-position=\"tablet\" data-ad-refresh=\"default\">\u201cThe company is now expecting to progressively transition the vaccine to modest profitability as new orders are received,\u201d it said.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\" data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_2E4BBD25-6387-EA33-7307-13A0A7D94CC4\">The majority of vaccine sales between October and December this year were expected to come from existing supply agreements, the company said, adding that it also expected some new orders.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__read-all\">\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\" data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_F8F9D5C3-0C4F-CAC0-F529-13BF1F2C8B18\">A company spokesperson confirmed that AstraZeneca would continue to fulfill existing orders to developing countries at no profit, as previously pledged.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_F8F9D5C3-0C4F-CAC0-F529-13BF1F2C8B18\">\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\" data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_9FF024E9-896C-ADEB-BF2A-13BF2B4E65CB\">\u201cWe are still very much honoring our existing agreement with Oxford [University] and will continue to fulfill [those] orders at cost price,\u201d she told CNN Business.<\/div>\n<div data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_9FF024E9-896C-ADEB-BF2A-13BF2B4E65CB\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\" data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_69B0B739-5E70-B630-26D7-13A0A7DA209B\">The company said that \u201cthe limited profit contribution from the vaccine\u201d in the fourth quarter would offset costs related to a Covid-19 antibody combination drug it is trialling.<\/div>\n<div data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_69B0B739-5E70-B630-26D7-13A0A7DA209B\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\" data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_4EB4D333-76BC-B6E6-5322-13A0A7DB1C28\">Sales of its Covid-19 vaccine contributed to a rise in AstraZeneca\u2019s total revenues for the first nine months of the year, which were up by\u00a0nearly a third to $25.4 billion.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_4EB4D333-76BC-B6E6-5322-13A0A7DB1C28\">\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\" data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_742F438B-D26B-335B-1E55-13A0A7DDC993\">It said the company and sub-licensing partners had released \u201cmore than 1.5 billion vaccine doses as of the 30 September 2021, for supply in over 170 countries.\u201d<\/div>\n<div data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_742F438B-D26B-335B-1E55-13A0A7DDC993\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\" data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_C5F3296D-6192-B7CE-7ABB-13A0A7E05ACB\">AstraZeneca\u2019s overall operating profit for the year to date was down 63% from the same period in 2020 at $1.3 billion. Pretax profit slumped to $371 million from $2.75 billion the previous year.<\/div>\n<div data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_C5F3296D-6192-B7CE-7ABB-13A0A7E05ACB\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\" data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_87583A2D-814C-06FC-99B9-13D7257FC83E\">According to the company, supplying the Covid-19 at no profit to AstraZeneca had contributed to a drop in core profit margin of six percentage points to 74.1%, alongside a rise in general expenses and research costs.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"antig-888727473\" class=\"antig-in-comments_2 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/@hadeedmotorsltd\" aria-label=\"Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2.png 1000w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:75\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2.png 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:192\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1000\" height=\"250\"   \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN Business)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0AstraZeneca\u00a0(AZN)\u00a0has booked its first profit from sales of its\u00a0Covid-19\u00a0vaccine. The company sold $2.2 billion worth of the shot in the first nine months of the year. In the quarter ending September 30, the vaccine\u2019s\u00a0sales totalled $1.05 billion, contributing one cent to\u00a0earnings per share. Announcing its earnings\u00a0on Friday, the UK\u2019s largest pharmaceutical company said it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":141635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>AstraZeneca rakes in $25.4 billion for the first 9 months of 2021 - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/astrazeneca-rakes-in-25-4-billion-for-the-first-9-months-of-2021\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AstraZeneca rakes in $25.4 billion for the first 9 months of 2021\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"(CNN Business)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0AstraZeneca\u00a0(AZN)\u00a0has booked its first profit from sales of its\u00a0Covid-19\u00a0vaccine. 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