Endo Slashes Loss Despite Generics Slide

Endo sharply reduced its net loss in the first quarter, beating analysts’ earnings forecasts. While generics sales slid, revenues from its higher-margin sterile injectables unit soared.

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While generics sales declined, Endo managed to reduce its loss • Source: Shutterstock

Endo’s generics revenues slid during the first quarter but a sharp jump in sterile injectables sales helped the company to slash its net loss from a year earlier and beat analysts’ earnings forecasts.

Endo’s chief executive, Paul Campanelli, who is steering the firm’s turnaround, said he was not worried by the fall in non-injectable generics sales as he had expected 2019 “to be a year of transition” for the division, as it shifts to developing more complex drugs offering higher margins and facing fewer rivals

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