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Amgen Inc.
11/4/2025
My name is Julianne and I will be your conference facilitator today for the Amgen Q3 2025 earnings conference call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. There will be a question and answer session at the conclusion of the last speaker's prepared remarks. In order to ensure that everyone has a chance to participate, we would like to request that you limit yourself to asking one question during the Q&A session. To ask a question, please press star then the number one on your telephone keypad. To withdraw your question, please press star one again. I would now like to introduce Casey Caporelli, Vice President of Investor Relations. Mr. Caporelli, you may now begin.
Thank you, Julianne, and good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to our third quarter 2025 earnings call. Bob Bradway will lead the call and be followed by a broader review of our performance by Peter Griffith, Murdo Gordon, and Jay Bratner. Through the course of our discussion today, we will use non-GAAP financial measures to describe our performance, and have provided appropriate reconciliations within the materials that accompany this call. We will also make some forward-looking statements, which are qualified by our safe harbor statement, and please note that actual results could vary materially. Over to you, Bob.
Okay, good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. Amgen delivered another strong quarter, driven by rising demand for our medicines and meaningful progress across the pipeline. Volume growth once again paced our progress in an environment where selling prices are declining across the industry. This volume growth reflects the strength of our portfolio and the value our medicines provide to patients and prescribers. We saw growth across all four therapeutic areas this quarter. Revenues were up 12% year over year and volume up 14%. Sixteen of our products grew at double-digit rates. And 14 are now annualizing at over a billion dollars in sales. Our broad base of innovative medicines is generating powerful momentum and gives us confidence in our ability to sustain long-term growth. We've also been working to expand access to our medicines. And we recently launched Amgen Now, a new direct-to-patient platform that allows qualified patients in the U.S. to access Repatha at one of the lowest prices in the world. This is an important step forward in helping more people benefit from the kind of innovation that's represented by Repatha. Let me take a moment to recognize the scale and complexity of what we do in biologics manufacturing, which is both an art and a science. And at Amgen, we've built one of the most advanced capabilities in the world in making large molecules. We benefit from 45 years of experience in this space and from having a manufacturing network that's predominantly based here in the U.S., serving American patients and patients all around the world since our inception. We continue to invest in manufacturing with more than $3 billion in planned investments in the U.S. this year alone. This builds on over $40 billion invested in manufacturing and research and development since the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017. This foundation positions us well to support growing global demand for our products. Let me just turn briefly to each of our four therapeutic areas. In general medicine, we're expanding our impact across underserved disease areas with substantial runway. Cardiovascular disease remains the world's leading public health challenge with tens of millions of patients at risk for heart attack and stroke. At the upcoming American Heart Association meeting, we will share data on Repatha showing important benefits in preventing a first heart attack or stroke. Again, a powerful signal for the impact or potential impact of Repatha in primary prevention. In bone health, Avenity is a transforming care for postmenopausal women at high risk of fracture. It is the first and only bone building therapy that increases bone formation and decreases bone resorption. Avenity continues to deliver strong performance, and with treatment rates still low among women with high fracture risk, we believe there's significant room for growth. We expect this product to remain a growth driver throughout its life cycle. Looking ahead, both Meritide and Opaziran offer additional pathways for growth in obesity and cardiovascular disease, two of the world's most pressing health issues. In rare disease, our portfolio of growth drivers are all early in their life cycle. These products are performing well now, and we expect them to continue to grow well into the future. For example, with new indications such as IgG4-related disease, and generalized myasthenia gravis on the horizon for uplizna, we're excited by what this product can offer an increasingly broad range of patients. I would also say that the progress that we are seeing with uplizna across a range of different diseases reaffirms our belief for the potential of CD19-directed therapies to address a wide range of rare autoimmune diseases. In inflammation, we've been a leader for decades. We are very encouraged by what we're seeing with TESPIRE. As physicians are increasingly comfortable with its profile, increasingly comfortable with the fact that it is a well-tolerated and broadly effective agent, able to intervene upstream in the inflammatory cascade. We remain highly encouraged by the long-term prospects for TESPIRE. In oncology, we're continuing to establish new standards of care. MDELTRA has generated strong clinical enthusiasm in small-cell lung cancer. Blinzaito is, of course, now firmly established as the standard of care in frontline consolidation for B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and we are seeing encouraging progress with Zaluridamig in prostate cancer as it advances through Phase III. Meanwhile, our biosimilar strategy continues to deliver results as well. You can see that in the quarter, revenues were up more than 50% year over year and are now annualizing at roughly $3 billion in sales. To close, let me just say that we continue to engage with policymakers in Washington and elsewhere around the world to support policies that improve access, protect innovation, and strengthen the biomanufacturing ecosystem, especially here in the U.S. We've built a strong springboard for 2026. The products that will drive our next wave of growth are in hand, supported by compelling data, reinforced by readouts this year, and still early in their life cycle. We're encouraged by the momentum we're seeing in the business and confident in our ability to deliver innovation and growth well into the next decade. I want to extend my thanks to our colleagues around the world for their commitment and patience. With that, let me turn over to Peter for a financial update. Thank you.
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