Pharmaceutical company Amphastar Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQAMPH) will be reporting results this Thursday after market close. Here’s what you need to know.
Amphastar Pharmaceuticals missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 2% last quarter, reporting revenues of $170.5 million, flat year on year. It was a softer quarter for the company, with a decent beat of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Amphastar Pharmaceuticals’s revenue to decline 3.5% year on year to $176.1 million, a reversal from the 25.2% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.74 per share.
The majority of analysts covering the company have reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Amphastar Pharmaceuticals has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates four times over the last two years.
Looking at Amphastar Pharmaceuticals’s peers in the pharmaceuticals segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Amneal delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 3.2%, missing analysts’ expectations by 2.5%, and Supernus Pharmaceuticals reported a revenue decline of 1.7%, topping estimates by 7.4%.
Read our full analysis of Amneal’s results here and Supernus Pharmaceuticals’s results here.
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