Roche posts strong nine-month sales, boosted by new products

17 October 2018

Roche (ROG: SIX) today released sales figures for the first nine months of 2018, showing that group sales increased 7%at constant exchange rates and in Swiss francs to 40.08 billion francs $40.48). The company does not reveal any profit figures at the quarterly stage.

Pharmaceuticals Division sales were also up 7% to 37.70 billion francs, driven mainly by Ocrevus (ocrelizumab), Perjeta (pertuzumab), Alecensa (alectinib) and Tecentriq (atezolizumab), as new medicines compensated for the loss of exclusivity on long-time blockbuster drugs.Diagnostics Division sales increased 6% to 9.4 billion francs.

Third-quarter sales rose 7% to 13.97 billion francs, the Swiss pharma giant said, compared with analysts’ average forecast of 13.8 billion francs in a Reuters poll.

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