As­traZeneca chief is bet­ting the com­pa­ny’s fu­ture on a sin­gle roll of the dice

Bioreg­num
The view from End­points

Near­ly five years in­to his stint at the helm of As­traZeneca, CEO Pas­cal So­ri­ot has now reached his year of liv­ing dan­ger­ous­ly.

This morn­ing the phar­ma chief out­lined a steadi­ly de­clin­ing rate of rev­enue. Core EPS is ex­pect­ed to slide in the low to mid teens as gener­ics con­tin­ue to chop away at their Crestor fran­chise. All their old block­busters are be­ing dis­en­fran­chised, in a man­ner of speak­ing.

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