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    Former New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees hints at return to broadcasting

    Brees said he has “maybe” held talks with media executives about being part of an NFL broadcast team for next season.
    Brees, the former New Orleans Saints and San Diego Chargers quarterback, spent one year at NBC Sports as an NFL studio analyst.
    Brees spoke with CNBC Sport on Radio Row in New Orleans ahead of Super Bowl 59 on Sunday.

    Former New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees said he’d like to join an NFL broadcast team as a game analyst, and hinted he’s already in talks with media companies for a role.
    Brees signed a multiyear contract with NBC Sports in 2020, but only spent a year as an NFL studio analyst before leaving the role in what then-head of NBC Sports Pete Bevacqua called a “lifestyle choice” for Brees.

    Drew Brees of ESPN Monday Night Countdown on set before the game between the Miami Dolphins and the Los Angeles Rams at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, on Nov. 11, 2024.
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    If he were to return to broadcasting, Brees said he’d feel comfortable as a game commentator, following the footsteps of other quarterbacks of his era including Tom Brady and Tony Romo. Brady signed a 10-year contract with Fox in 2022 worth at least $375 million, according to The Athletic. He will conclude his first season broadcasting Sunday’s Super Bowl 59.
    “I love broadcast because there’s an insight that comes with playing the position, the quarterback position, for 20 years that you have that nobody else has. I feel like we’re extremely well equipped to be able to talk about and communicate exactly what’s happened on the field and why,” Brees said Thursday in a CNBC Sport interview on Radio Row in New Orleans ahead of the Super Bowl. “So look, I would, with the right opportunity, I’d love to.”
    When asked if Brees had already held talks with media executives, he said, “Maybe.” Pressed if a job could begin next season, he also responded, “Maybe.”
    “I love the game of football, and I will always be involved in the NFL game in some capacity,” said Brees. More

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    New Orleans prepares for Super Bowl 59, its biggest weekend of the year

    New Orleans is preparing for an estimated 125,000 visitors and a presidential visit during the weekend of Super Bowl 59.
    Hotel demand is surging, and Caesars is in the spotlight.
    Law enforcement has enhanced its efforts since a New Year’s Day attack in the city’s French Quarter.

    Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles flags at Voodoo Chicken & Daiquiris restaurant on Bourbon Street prior to Super Bowl 59.
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    New Orleans is preparing for an estimated 125,000 visitors and a presidential visit during the weekend of Super Bowl 59, as the reigning champion Kansas City Chiefs take on the Philadelphia Eagles at the Caesars Superdome.
    Local businesses are ready, and hotel demand is surging.

    Tripadvisor said demand for hotel rooms in New Orleans surged 637% this week as fans of the competing NFL teams scurry to find lodging. Interest from travelers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey has increased more than 14 times, and interest from people in Kansas and Missouri is up 8.5 times since the division championship games in the last week of January, the travel site said.
    As of Thursday morning, the average hotel room was going for $650 per night, according to Hotels.com, which is owned by Expedia.
    Caesars has the spotlight, however. Along with naming rights to the New Orleans Saints’ stadium, where the NFL championship will be played, Caesars also holds lucrative status as the only casino in New Orleans.
    The company has rolled out the red carpet with a nearly half-billion-dollar overhaul of what was formerly a Harrah’s-branded property, and it is using the big game to introduce the brand to new customers.
    The biggest football game of the year comes just weeks after a New Year’s Day attack that took place in the city’s French Quarter and killed 14 people, putting New Orleans on high alert.

    Security around town is tight. State police, city police and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security all have a heavy presence.
    At an NFL briefing on Monday, law enforcement said more than 700 different types of Homeland Security officials will be on the ground during the Super Bowl, and that was before President Donald Trump indicated plans to attend the game.
    “I am confident that the safest areas to be in the country this weekend is under the security umbrella our team has put together,” said Cathy Lanier, the NFL’s chief security officer.
    Since the Jan. 1 attack in New Orleans, NFL Executive Vice President Jeff Miller said the league has redoubled its safety efforts.
    “We added resources, and we feel really good about where we are,” Miller told CNBC. More

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    Eli Lilly posts mixed quarter even as demand for weight loss, diabetes drugs soars

    Eli Lilly reported mixed results for the fourth quarter as sales of its blockbuster weight loss and diabetes drugs soared but saw lower realized prices.
    Demand in the U.S. has far outpaced supply for Eli Lilly’s incretin drugs, such as Zepbound and Mounjaro, over the last year.

    Eli Lilly on Thursday reported mixed results for the fourth quarter, even as sales of its blockbuster weight loss drug Zepbound and diabetes treatment Mounjaro soared.
    The company’s quarterly earnings topped Wall Street estimates, but sales fell just short as Mounjaro saw lower realized prices. Zepbound and Mounjaro have now underperformed expectations for two straight quarters, with the company previously pointing to issues around inventory decreases among wholesalers.

    The pharmaceutical giant also issued fiscal 2025 profit guidance of $22.05 to $23.55 per share, which is in line with what analysts were expecting. Eli Lilly reiterated its fiscal 2025 sales guidance of $58 billion to $61 billion. 
    The figures were consistent with the preliminary results Eli Lilly shared in January, which disappointed investors. Eli Lilly had slashed its 2024 revenue guidance, as it said demand for its weight loss and diabetes drugs would not meet its lofty expectations.
    Notably, Eli Lilly said it plans to report late-stage data on its next-generation obesity drug retatrutide later this year, a few months earlier than expected. Retatrutide works differently from any of the treatments on the market, mimicking three different hunger-regulating hormones: GLP-1, GIP and glucagon.
    Here’s what Eli Lilly reported for the fourth quarter compared with what Wall Street was expecting, based on a survey of analysts by LSEG: 

    Earnings per share: $5.32 adjusted vs. $4.95 expected
    Revenue: $13.53 billion vs. $13.57 billion expected

    The company posted fourth-quarter revenue of $13.53 billion, up 45% from the same period a year ago. 

    The pharmaceutical giant booked net income of $4.41 billion, or $4.88 per share, for the fourth quarter. That compares with a profit of $2.19 billion, or $2.42 a share, a year earlier. 
    Excluding one-time items associated with the value of intangible assets and other adjustments, Eli Lilly posted earnings of $5.32 per share for the fourth quarter of 2024.

    Zepbound, Mounjaro performance

    Mounjaro posted $3.53 billion in revenue for the fourth quarter, up 60% from the year-earlier period. Analysts had expected the drug to book $3.62 billion in sales for the quarter, according to StreetAccount.  
    Eli Lilly said the increase reflects strong demand and increased supply of Mounjaro, but was partially offset by lower realized prices due to “favorable changes” in the fourth quarter of 2023 to estimates for rebates and discounts. 
    Meanwhile, the results cap Zepbound’s first full year on the U.S. market. The weekly injection raked in $1.91 billion in sales for the fourth quarter, which is below the $1.98 billion that analysts expected, according to StreetAccount. 
    But demand in the U.S. has still far outpaced supply for Eli Lilly’s incretin drugs, such as Zepbound and Mounjaro, over the last year. Both treatments mimic certain gut hormones to tamp down a person’s appetite and regulate their blood sugar.
    The popularity of those injectable drugs has forced both Eli Lilly and its rival Novo Nordisk to invest billions to ramp up manufacturing capacity for their treatments. The efforts appear to be paying off: The Food and Drug Administration in December reaffirmed its decision to declare the U.S. shortage of tirzepatide — the active ingredient in Zepbound and Mounjaro — over.
    Eli Lilly on Thursday estimated that it will produce at least 1.6 times the amount of incretin doses in the first half of 2025 compared to the first half of 2024.
    The results also kick off a critical year for Eli Lilly, which is slated to release closely watched clinical trial data on its experimental obesity pill, orforglipron. Those results are expected by the middle of the year.
    This story is developing. Please check back for updates. More

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    How Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger got caught in Trump’s trade war with China

    The owner of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger has been placed on China’s “unreliable entities” list, which could force it to shut down stores, cease manufacturing and send its employees home.
    China placed PVH on the list soon after President Donald Trump slapped a new 10% tariff on Chinese imports, and came along with other retaliatory actions, such as new duties on U.S. energy imports.
    PVH has a significant manufacturing footprint in China and has about 18% of its suppliers and factories in the region.

    People shop for clothes at a Calvin Klein store at a mall in Beijing on Feb. 5, 2025.
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    China has blacklisted the owner of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, which could force the company to shut down stores and manufacturing in an early repercussion of President Donald Trump’s trade war. 
    China added PVH Corp. to its “unreliable entities” list on Tuesday, which allows the Chinese government to fine the retailer, prohibit import and export activities, revoke work permits, and deny employees the ability to enter the country, among other deliberately vague powers. 

    While China’s Ministry of Commerce began investigating PVH in September for allegedly refusing to source cotton from the Xinjiang region, which has become notorious for its Uyghur detention camps, Beijing officially placed the company on its blacklist on Tuesday. The announcement came just days after Trump slapped a 10% tariff on imports from China, and came along with a slew of other retaliatory measures against the U.S., including new duties on energy imports and farm gear. 
    “There’s this tit-for-tat trade war going on, and [China] wants to show the United States that it’s going to take action to hurt either big U.S. companies or companies with significant interests in the U.S.,” said Michael Kaye, a partner at Squire Patton Boggs, who has been practicing international trade law for more than 30 years. “They’re being made an example. … My guess is, [China] wanted to pick somebody and they wanted it to be somebody that was high visibility.”
    Now that PVH is on the unreliable entities list, China could force the company to shut down the dozens of stores that it operates in the region and forbid it from selling its wares to Chinese consumers online, said Kaye. Its staff — including those who’ve built lives in China — could be effectively deported and sent home, Kaye added.
    It is unclear if China would try to enforce actions against PVH in the autonomous region of Hong Kong, where the company’s Asia-Pacific headquarters are. In 2020, China passed a law that gave it more power to enforce national laws in Hong Kong, and that is “particularly the case with laws applicable to national security,” which could include the unreliable entities list, said Kaye.
    As of Thursday morning Eastern time, the company appeared to be operating its business as usual in China.

    China could even prohibit PVH from manufacturing in the region altogether, which could force it to move production to other countries and struggle to meet customer orders. 
    It’s unclear which steps exactly China will take, or if the Trump administration will try to convince China not to punish the company.
    In a statement, PVH said that it was “surprised and deeply disappointed to learn of the decision from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce.”
    “In our 20 years of operating in China and proudly serving our consumers, as a matter of policy, PVH maintains strict compliance with all relevant laws and regulations and operates in line with established industry standards and practices. We will continue our engagement with relevant authorities and look forward to a positive resolution,” the company said.
    China represented 6% of PVH’s sales and 16% of its earnings before interest and taxes in 2023, but it relies more heavily on the country for manufacturing, which is the bigger risk to its business. PVH has more factories and suppliers in China than in any other region, representing about 18% of production, according to a disclosure it issued in December. 

    “This has the potential to be very, very disruptive for PVH,” said GlobalData managing director and retail analyst Neil Saunders. “They would certainly have to scramble to find new capacity. They’d be able to do that in time, of course, but the two things that are at issue are that, because a lot of supply chains are just in time, they would probably find that they did get short on inventory whilst they made the transition. The other issue, of course, is quality.” 
    PVH has operated in China for more than 20 years, and while it works with suppliers and factories in more than 30 other countries, the higher-end goods that it makes can be difficult to manufacture elsewhere because of the skill level needed, said Saunders. 
    “While you can shift manufacturing capacity reasonably easily, it’s not so easy to guarantee the quality, guarantee the production processes. Those things take time to upskill,” said Saunders. “China has that capacity and has those skills, because PVH has been operating there for ages. Another country, another manufacturing facility, may not have those skills immediately.” 
    Plus, PVH has viewed China as a growth market and it will now have to look for new strategies to increase sales and profitability as demand falls for its high-end dresses, intimate apparel and sweaters. 
    China’s unreliable entities list is a relatively new law in the country, and experts say it’s deliberately opaque. The government has wide latitude to take action against PVH, but it remains unclear what exactly it will do. Typically, guidance comes within a few days of a company’s placement on the blacklist, said Kaye. 
    China could add PVH to the list and do nothing to the company, but Kaye said the chances of that are “very slim” because the government will want to avoid the perception that it’s backing down. China will more likely use PVH as a bargaining chip at the negotiating table with Trump, and use it as an example to show the power it has to inflict pain on other U.S. businesses with major operations and customer bases in China, such as Nike, Apple, General Motors, Starbucks and others. 
    “There’s a sort of sword of Damocles hanging over [PVH’s] head, and that is exactly what this is, because this isn’t really about PVH at all. This is about PVH being caught in the spat between China and the U.S.,” said Saunders. “China is using PVH as an example to say, look, if tariffs go ahead, if other restrictions are put in place on China, we can make life difficult for U.S. companies in the country. That’s really what this is about.”

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    Shares of Peloton surge 13% as it edges closer to profitability, posts better than expected sales

    Peloton delivered mixed results for its holiday quarter, but managed to blow away adjusted EBITDA expectations despite a wider loss per share than expected.
    The Bike and Tread maker’s guidance indicated it’s sacrificing sales growth for profitability in the near term, but could see revenue stabilize by the end of the year.
    The connected fitness company has a new CEO at the helm, former Ford executive Peter Stern, who will make his public debut on the company’s earnings call.

    A Peloton stationary bicycle inside a store in Palo Alto, California, US, on Monday, Aug. 5, 2024. 
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    Peloton told investors Thursday it still has a “steep hill to climb” to achieve profitable growth under its new CEO, but the connected fitness company beat holiday sales expectations, thanks in part to its partnership with Costco. 
    The bike maker posted mixed fiscal second quarter results, as it topped Wall Street’s sales estimates but lost more than expected as it continued its efforts to make its costly hardware business more profitable.

    The bike maker also cut costs in three key areas that it has faced criticism for spending too much on – marketing, administrative costs and research and development – leading it to blow away analyst expectations for adjusted EBITDA. 
    Peloton shares climbed more than 13% in premarket trading Thursday.
    Peloton forecast worse than expected sales in the current quarter, but it projected better than expected cash flow and perhaps a recovery in revenue by the end of the year. 
    During the current quarter, Peloton expects sales to be between $605 million and $625 million, worse than the $652 million analysts had expected, according to LSEG. However, it anticipates adjusted EBITDA will be between $70 million and $85 million, far better than the $50.4 million Wall Street expected, according to StreetAccount.
    Peloton expects fiscal 2025 revenue to be roughly in line with expectations. It’s forecasting sales to be between $2.43 billion and $2.48 billion, compared to estimates of $2.47 billion, according to LSEG. 

    Here’s how Peloton performed in its fiscal 2025 second quarter compared with what Wall Street was anticipating, based on a survey of analysts by LSEG:

    Loss per share: 24 cents vs. 18 cents expected
    Revenue: $674 million vs. $654 million expected

    The company’s reported net loss for the three-month period that ended Dec. 31 was $92 million, or 24 cents per share, compared with $195 million, or 54 cents per share, a year earlier. 
    Sales dropped to $674 million, down more than 9% from $744 million a year earlier. Peloton’s holiday quarter is typically its strongest for hardware sales, but most of its revenue decline came from that side of the business, as sales fell about 21%. 
    Still, it is making more than it used to from selling its pricey stationary bikes and treadmills, which have long been a money losing business. During the quarter, its connected fitness gross margin came in at 12.9%, the first time it’s reached double digits in more than three years, the company said. 
    Peloton also saw big gains from its seasonal partnership with Costco, which drove more Bike+ sales during its holiday quarter than any other third-party retailer it works with, such as Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods. 
    In October, Peloton announced that Peter Stern, a former Ford executive and the co-founder of Apple Fitness+, would be its next CEO and president after Barry McCarthy stepped down earlier in the year and two board members briefly took the helm. 
    Stern was selected in part because of his experience running Ford’s subscription business, indicating Peloton was tripling down on its main value proposition: its high-margin, recurring subscription revenue. 
    Stern started in the role on Jan. 1 and is slated to make his public debut to investors during the company’s earnings call scheduled for 8:30 a.m. ET. 
    He’s expected to continue Peloton’s efforts to cut costs and chart a path to profitability but also try to improve the member experience to reduce churn and bring on new customers. 
    At the moment, Peloton is attracting a different class of investors that are more interested in seeing the company leverage its high-margin subscription revenue to boost profits over growing sales so their focus has turned to its ability to generate free cash flow and EBITDA. 
    During the quarter, Peloton blew away adjusted EBITDA expectations. It posted $58.4 million in adjusted EBITDA, more than double the $26.7 million that analysts had expected, according to StreetAccount. It managed to eke out the number even with a higher-than-expected loss per share by reducing costs in areas that investors and analysts have said Peloton was overspending in. 
    Sales and marketing costs were down 34%, general and administrative expenses fell 18% and research and development spending dropped 25%, leading total operating expenses to be down 25% compared to the year-ago period. More

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    Eli Lilly to release late-stage data on next-generation weight loss drug retatrutide in 2025, earlier than expected

    Eli Lilly said it expects to release data from a late-stage trial on its next-generation weight loss drug retatrutide later this year, which is a few months earlier than expected. 
    The company expects to read out results from a study in people with obesity and osteoarthritis of the knee in 2025.
    Retatrutide is a key part of Eli Lilly’s drug pipeline that works differently from existing treatments and appears to be more effective.

    The Eli Lilly & Co. logo at the company’s Digital Health Innovation Hub facility in Singapore, on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. 
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    Eli Lilly on Thursday said it expects to release data from a late-stage trial on its next-generation weight loss drug retatrutide later this year, which is a few months earlier than anticipated. 
    The company expects to read out results from a study in people with obesity and osteoarthritis of the knee in 2025, according to fourth-quarter earnings slides on its website. Eli Lilly previously said that phase three study was expected to finish in February of 2026. 

    It is among at least nine closely watched clinical trials on retatrutide, which works differently from the obesity and diabetes treatments on the market and appears to be even more effective at weight loss. 
    Retatrutide is a key part of Eli Lilly’s drug pipeline that could help the company maintain its dominance in the blockbuster weight loss and diabetes treatment space and gain an edge over key competitor Novo Nordisk. Dubbed the “triple G” drug, retatrutide works by mimicking three hunger-regulating hormones: GLP-1, GIP and glucagon. That appears to have more potent effects on a person’s appetite and satisfaction with food.
    Meanwhile, tirzepatide – the active ingredient in Eli Lilly’s weight loss shot Zepbound and diabetes drug Mounjaro –mimics two hunger-regulating hormones, GLP-1 and GIP. Novo Nordisk’s weight loss drug Wegovy only mimics GLP-1.
    The treatment also appears to cause even greater weight loss than tirzepatide, which has skyrocketed in demand in the U.S.
    Retatrutide helped patients lose 24.2% of their body weight, or 58 pounds, on average after 48 weeks in a mid-stage trial on adults who were obese or overweight. Those who took the placebo lost 2.1% of their body weight after that same time period.

    Higher doses of tirzepatide helped patients with obesity lose up to 22.5% weight loss on average in late-stage studies.
    — CNBC’s Angelica Peebles contributed to this report. More

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    Strong Taco Bell sales fuel Yum Brands earnings beat

    Yum Brands on Thursday reported quarterly earnings and revenue that beat Wall Street estimates.
    Results were fueled by strong sales for KFC’s international restaurants and Taco Bell.
    Net sales climbed 16% to $2.36 billion, and the company’s same-store sales rose 1%.

    A sign is posted in front of a Taco Bell restaurant in Richmond, California, on May 1, 2024.
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    Yum Brands on Thursday reported quarterly earnings and revenue that beat Wall Street estimates, fueled by strong sales for KFC’s international restaurants and Taco Bell.
    Shares of the company rose more than 2% in premarket trading.

    Here’s what the company reported compared with what Wall Street was expecting, based on a survey of analysts by LSEG:

    Earnings per share: $1.61 adjusted vs. $1.60 expected
    Revenue: $2.36 billion vs. $2.35 billion expected

    The restaurant company reported fourth-quarter net income of $423 million, or $1.49 per share, down from $463 million, or $1.62 per share, a year earlier. Excluding refranchising gains and other items, Yum earned $1.61 per share.
    Net sales climbed 16% to $2.36 billion. More than half of Yum’s quarterly sales were digital, which includes online and delivery orders and those placed through in-store kiosks.
    Yum’s same-store sales rose 1% in the quarter, thanks to Taco Bell.
    Taco Bell reported same-store sales growth of 5%. Executives have previously credited the chain’s strong value perception for its success in recent quarters.

    KFC’s same-store sales were flat for the quarter, but the fried chicken chain saw stronger demand outside of the U.S. For example, in China, its largest market, KFC’s system sales increased 5% in the quarter. Europe and Latin America reported double-digit system sales growth. The chain’s international same-store sales rose 1% overall in the quarter.
    Meanwhile, in its home market, KFC’s U.S. same-store sales slid 5%. Popeyes has overtaken the chain to become the second-biggest chicken chain in the U.S., and other upstarts, like Raising Cane’s, have been growing quickly.
    Pizza Hut, the laggard of Yum’s portfolio, reported same-store sales declines of 1% for the quarter. The pizza chain’s U.S. same-store sales fell 2%, while its international business reported flat same-store sales.
    Yum opened 1,804 new restaurants during the quarter, growing its unit count by 5%.
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    Bristol Myers Squibb plans $2 billion in cost cuts by 2027, issues weak guidance

    Bristol Myers Squibb said it will slash $2 billion in costs by the end of 2027, expanding its ongoing cost savings effort to chart a path toward long-term growth. 
    The company also issued a full-year 2025 guidance that fell short of Wall Street’s expectations, as some of the company’s older drugs face competition from cheaper generics.
    But Bristol Myers still reported fourth-quarter revenue and adjusted earnings that blew past expectations, boosted by Eliquis and its so-called “growth portfolio” of drugs. 

    The Bristol Myers Squibb research and development center at Cambridge Crossing in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Dec. 27, 2023.
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    Bristol Myers Squibb on Thursday said it will slash $2 billion in costs by the end of 2027, expanding its ongoing cost savings effort to chart a path toward long-term growth. 
    Bristol Myers said savings will be driven by organizational changes and efforts to streamline operations and will allow the company to invest in new science and drug brands expected to deliver growth. 

    The pharmaceutical giant still plans to cut $1.5 billion in costs by the end of 2025 and funnel that money into drug development. It first announced those cuts in April, and expanded on them with Thursday’s announcement.
    The company is preparing to offset the loss in revenue from top-selling treatments slated to lose exclusivity on the market, including its blockbuster blood thinner Eliquis and cancer immunotherapy Opdivo. 
    Also on Thursday, Bristol Myers Squibb issued full-year 2025 guidance that fell short of Wall Street’s expectations, as some of the company’s older drugs face competition from cheaper generics. That includes four drugs for different cancers: Revlimid, Pomalyst, Sprycel and Abraxane. 
    Bristol Myers expects revenue to come in around $45.5 billion, which is below the $47.36 billion that analysts surveyed by LSEG were expecting. 
    The company’s revenue guidance also reflects an approximately $500 million expected negative impact from foreign exchange.

    The drugmaker expects adjusted earnings per share of between $6.55 to $6.85. Analysts surveyed by LSEG expected adjusted earnings of $6.92 per share. 
    Despite that outlook, Bristol Myers reported fourth-quarter revenue and adjusted earnings that blew past expectations, boosted by Eliquis and the company’s so-called “growth portfolio” of drugs. 
    Here is what Bristol Myers reported for the fourth quarter compared with what Wall Street was expecting, based on a survey of analysts by LSEG: 

    Earnings per share: $1.67 adjusted vs. $1.46 expected
    Revenue: $12.34 billion vs. $11.57 billion expected 

    Bristol Myers posted net income of $72 million, or 4 cents per share, for the fourth quarter. That compares with net income of $1.8 billion, or 87 cents per share, for the year-earlier period. 
    Excluding certain items, it reported adjusted earnings per share of $1.67 for the quarter. 
    The pharmaceutical giant’s revenue rose 8% from the same period a year ago to $12.34 billion. 
    Eliquis booked $3.2 billion in sales for the quarter, up 11% from the year-ago period. That is above the $3.03 billion that analysts were expecting, according to estimates compiled by StreetAccount.
    The blood thinner, which Bristol Myers shares with Pfizer, is expected to lose market exclusivity by 2028. 
    Sales of Eliquis could also take a hit in 2026, when a new negotiated price for the drug goes into effect for certain Medicare patients following negotiations with the federal government. Those price talks are a key provision of the Inflation Reduction Act.
    The second round of negotiations targets 15 additional drugs and will set new prices that will go into effect in 2028. That includes Pomalyst, which is used to treat a blood cancer called multiple myeloma and a cancer that develops in people with HIV.
    Pomalyst brought in $823 million for the period, down 8% from the year-earlier period. Sprycel booked $198 million in sales for the quarter, down 62% from the same period a year ago. Abraxane generated $174 million in revenue for the fourth quarter, down 30% from the same quarter in 2023. 
    Revlimid took in $1.34 billion in sales for the fourth quarter, down 8% from the same period a year ago. That surpassed analysts’ revenue expectations of $1.10 billion for the treatment, according to StreetAccount. 
    Revenue from the company’s Growth Portfolio was $6.36 billion for the fourth quarter, up 21% from the year-earlier period. 
    Opdivo brought in $2.48 billion in revenue for the fourth quarter, up 4% from the year-earlier period. That fell under analysts’ estimate of $2.51 billion for the quarter, StreetAccount said. More