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Karen Andersen
EUR 98.48 For Business Accounts Only

Slightly Raising Our Roche FVE Following a Strong 1Q; Pipeline Momentum Builds To Fight Biosimilars

Roche’s 4% constant-currency sales growth in the first quarter (3% pharma, 6% diagnostics) was in line with our expectations; we see shares as undervalued, and our five-year sales growth (6%) and earnings growth (8%) projections are ahead of consensus. We expect the firm could slightly beat its guidance for low- to mid-single-digit top-line and EPS growth for the year, based on recent strong data for breast cancer drug Perjeta, lung cancer drug Alecensa, and hemophilia drug emicizumab, but we ex...
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Roche Holding Ltd

Roche Holding is a healthcare company. Co. operates in two Divisions, Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics. Co.'s pharmaceuticals division is comprised of two business segments Roche Pharmaceuticals and Chugai. Co.'s pharmaceuticals division provides therapies including Cotellic, in combination with Zelboraf for advanced melanoma, and Alecensa for a specific type of lung cancer. Co.'s diagnostics division consists of four business areas: Diabetes Care, Molecular Diagnostics, Professional Diagnostics and Tissue Diagnostics. Co.'s diagnostics division provides in vitro diagnostic tests, used by healthcare providers to screen, diagnose and monitor therapies.

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Karen Andersen

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