Q4 Pharma Earnings Preview: GSK, Lilly, Sanofi And AstraZeneca

 
• By Kevin Grogan, Jessica Merrill, and Mandy Jackson
  
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GlaxoSmithKline will update investors on strategy after completing its Tesaro acquisition. Lilly may have guidance updates following its Loxo acquisition and Lartruvo setback news. Sanofi investors await a pair of new approvals, and AstraZeneca faces investors for the first time since the departure of Chief Medical Officer Sean Bohen and establishing a new organizational structure.

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With GlaxoSmithKline PLC's $5.1bn acquisition of Tesaro Inc. completed Jan. 22, the company's fourth quarter earnings call Feb. 6 will be the first opportunity management has had to talk publicly to investors since the deal closed. Investors and Tesaro employees will be interested in more information about the integration as well as the development plan for the PARP inhibitor Zejula (niraparib) and the other pipeline drugs that were acquired.

GSK announced plans to buy the Waltham-based oncology company in December. (Also see "GSK Embraces PARP Promise With Tesaro...

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