Pfizer lost more than $2 billion in the third quarter as an expected COVID-19 product sales decline clipped revenue.
Both the company and analysts who follow it expected revenue from those key products to tumble this year before eventually rebounding as commercial sales take hold.
But two weeks ago, Pfizer Inc. warned that sales of its COVID-19 drugs were weaker than it had expected, and it cut its annual revenue expectations by $9 billion.
Falling sales of both Paxlovid and Comirnaty also trimmed sales in the second quarter, but Pfizer said in August that it expected a rebound in the second half of 2023.
Pfizer also had a revenue reversal of more than $4 billion in the third quarter.
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