{"id":7266,"date":"2026-02-15T08:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T08:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/7266\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T08:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T08:04:15","slug":"roche-raises-guidance-even-after-weak-dollar-weighs-on-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/7266\/","title":{"rendered":"Roche raises guidance even after weak dollar weighs on sales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Swiss drugmaker Roche on Thursday lifted its full-year profit guidance, even after nine-month sales were burdened by foreign exchange effects to come in below expectations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">In a statement, the group said it projected a gain in adjusted earnings per share in the &#8220;high single to low double digit&#8221; percentage range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The was up from a previous guidance for the figures to grow by a &#8220;high single digit&#8221; percentage. It confirmed its outlook for mid single-digit sales growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The brighter earnings prospects, albeit excluding the foreign-exchange burden, could provide a tailwind for CEO Thomas Schinecker as he invests heavily in obesity drugs to challenge the two dominant makers of weight-loss drugs, Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting by Ludwig Burger, Editing by Miranda Murray)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Swiss drugmaker Roche on Thursday lifted its full-year profit guidance, even after nine-month sales were burdened&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[5711,5713,5712,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-7266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-roche","8":"tag-foreign-exchange","9":"tag-full-year-profit","10":"tag-percentage-range","11":"tag-roche"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}