Key Takeaway
1. Shares of Pfizer tanked Wednesday as investors digested the subpar guidance, falling as much as 9% to below $26 in morning trading, hitting their lowest intraday share price since 2013. That’s the largest single-day drop for Pfizer since January 2009.
2. Pfizer said Wednesday it expects 2024 revenue to come in between $58.5 billion and $61.5 billion, representing roughly zero growth from 2023’s forecasts and coming in well below analysts’ average 2024 projected sales of $62.6 billion, according to FactSet.
3. Notably, Pfizer said it expects 2024 sales for its Covid products—Paxlovid pills and the Comirnaty vaccine—to be about $8 billion, a nearly 90% drop from the roughly $57 billion of revenue its Covid series brought in last year.