Novo Nordisk‘s U.S. shares plummeted late Tuesday after the company said it sees sales and profit growth declining this year, expecting a sales hit. The company published the forecast as it reported full-year 2025 sales, ahead of the quarterly report expected Wednesday morning. Novo’s American depositary shares fell 11% as of 12:05 pm ET. The…
The stock market is well-positioned to bounce next week if the heavyweight companies set to report earnings deliver strong numbers, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday. That’s because the market ended the week on a subdued note, the “Mad Money” host said, after the S&P 500 finished in the red for three straight days. The busy…
Eli Lilly CEO Dave Ricks on Friday said upcoming Medicare coverage of obesity drugs could be a major catalyst for the rollout of the company’s closely watched experimental weight loss pill, orforglipron. In an exclusive interview with CNBC, Ricks said Lilly expects to have Medicare coverage for the treatment “immediately following that launch, and that…
Eli Lilly Chair and CEO Dave Ricks speaks during a press conference in Houston, Sept. 23, 2025. Antranik Tavitian | Reuters Eli Lilly on Friday said it will spend more than $3.5 billion to build a manufacturing plant in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley that will help make its next-generation obesity drugs. That includes a closely watched…
Drugmakers Roche and Sanofi’s latest earnings were largely as expected, with the companies talking up the potential of experimental medicines ahead of a looming “patent cliff” for Big Pharma. Both companies’ stocks were down less than 1% on Thursday after reporting earnings before the bell. They are both among the pharmaceutical companies that could see…
A pharmacist displays a box of Wegovy pills at a pharmacy in Provo, Utah, Jan. 15, 2026. George Frey | Bloomberg | Getty Images The future of the booming obesity drug market won’t hinge on drugs that deliver greater weight loss alone. Top executives from drugmakers big and small told CNBC that the next phase…
Jim Cramer and Jeff Marks, the Club’s director of portfolio analysis, on Thursday delivered updates on all 34 Club holdings during the January Monthly Meeting. Here are the highlights from the first meeting of 2026, starting with our four turnaround stories: 4 turnaround plays Nike: The apparel and sneaker retailer has shown real signs of…
We get so caught up in the buzz and the sizzle that we forget about the steak, especially in this era of GLP-1s, which have revolutionized the treatment of diabetes and obesity and are being studied for so many more diseases and conditions. That’s my chief takeaway from meeting with 15 different CEOs, a dozen…
A pharmacist displays a box of Wegovy pills at a pharmacy in Provo, Utah, US, on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. George Frey | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Novo Nordisk rose more than 8% on Friday after early prescription data showed an encouraging start to the U.S. launch of the company’s new GLP-1 pill…
A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Healthy Returns newsletter, which brings the latest health-care news straight to your inbox. Subscribe here to receive future editions. Good morning from San Francisco! It’s day three of the annual JPMorgan Healthcare Conference — the biggest gathering of biotech and pharma execs, investors and analysts in…
