{"id":6137,"date":"2023-11-02T16:50:19","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T16:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/connectwithfund.com\/investment\/novo-nordisks-blockbuster-drug-portfolio-and-production-capacity-eyed-earnings-preview\/"},"modified":"2023-11-02T16:50:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T16:50:20","slug":"novo-nordisks-blockbuster-drug-portfolio-and-production-capacity-eyed-earnings-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/connectwithfund.com\/?p=6137","title":{"rendered":"Novo Nordisk&#8217;s Blockbuster Drug Portfolio and Production Capacity Eyed &#8212; Earnings Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"js-article__body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-sbid=\"MW-BT-CO-20231101-708000\" role=\"document\">\n<p>By Dominic Chopping<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>Novo Nordisk is scheduled to report results for the third quarter on Thursday. Here&#8217;s what to watch:<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>NET PROFIT FORECAST: Net profit in the quarter is seen rising 50% to 21.59 billion Danish kroner ($3.06 billion), according to a FactSet poll of analysts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>SALES FORECAST: A FactSet poll sees third-quarter sales rising to DKK57.78 billion from DKK45.57 billion last year. Novo Nordisk last month said sales in the quarter had risen 38% on the year in local currencies, with operating profit 47% higher.<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>WHAT TO WATCH:<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>&#8211;GLP-1 DRUGS: Sydbank senior analyst Soren Lontoft Hansen said in a note that he expects Novo Nordisk&#8217;s glucagon-like peptide-1 drugs, or GLP-1, used to treat type 2 diabetes and obesity, to have continued their strong growth in the quarter, modeling overall sales growth of 44% on the year for GLP-1 diabetes treatments to DKK32.27 billion. The strong growth in the quarter is mainly driven by diabetes drug Ozempic, which is also being used to treat obesity off-label, and Hansen expects sales of the drug to rise 54% on the year. He anticipates continued extremely high demand for obesity drug Wegovy, but Novo Nordisk&#8217;s decision to reduce the supply of low doses in the U.S. amid production capacity limitations will curb quarterly growth. Hansen models Wegovy sales of DKK8.18 billion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;MARGINS: Sydbank expects the gross margin to be helped by the marked increase in sales and product-mix effects, while lower net prices in the U.S. and currency effects pull in the opposite direction. The bank models a gross margin of 85.7% from 84.3% last year. &#8220;Although we see increasing capacity costs, which reflects the higher level of activity, the significant top line growth gives Novo Nordisk a strong operational leverage effect, so the increase in capacity costs will be less than top line growth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;GUIDANCE: The company expects 2023 sales growth of 32% to 38% on year and operating profit growth of 40% to 46% in constant currencies. Sydbank thinks this guidance will be maintained. Investors will also be watching for any guidance on production challenges for the GLP-1 portfolio within diabetes and obesity.<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>Write to Dominic Chopping at dominic.chopping@wsj.com<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/novo-nordisk-s-blockbuster-drug-portfolio-and-production-capacity-eyed-earnings-preview-d00cee07?mod=investing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dominic Chopping Novo Nordisk is scheduled to report results for the third quarter on Thursday. Here&#8217;s what to watch: NET PROFIT FORECAST: Net profit in the quarter is seen rising 50% to 21.59 billion Danish kroner ($3.06 billion), according to a FactSet poll of analysts. SALES FORECAST: A FactSet poll sees third-quarter sales rising to DKK57.78 billion from DKK45.57 billion last year. Novo Nordisk last month said sales in the quarter had risen 38% on the year in local currencies, with operating profit 47% higher. WHAT TO WATCH: &#8211;GLP-1 DRUGS: Sydbank senior analyst Soren Lontoft Hansen said in a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Novo Nordisk&#039;s Blockbuster Drug Portfolio and Production Capacity Eyed -- Earnings Preview | ConnectWithFund<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By Dominic Chopping Novo Nordisk is scheduled to report results for the third quarter on Thursday. 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