AstraZeneca secures EU approval for Etcamah in combination with a CDK4/6 inhibitor for first-line treatment of advanced ER-positive breast cancer patients.
The approval opens a big market for camizestrant as U.S. regulators continue to review the company's application there.
Jefferies believes detailed data on AstraZeneca PLC's (LSE:AZN, NASDAQ:AZN) experimental lung drug tozorakimab could more than compensate investors for the recent failure of a separate heart trial. The bank has reiterated its buy rating and 17,500p price target, implying 41% upside from the current 12,380p, and flagged the 8 September presentation at the European Respiratory Society congress as the key catalyst.
Evaluate the expected performance of Astrazeneca (AZN) for the quarter ended June 2026, looking beyond the conventional Wall Street top-and-bottom-line estimates and examining some of its key metrics for better insight.
Biotech dealmaking has reached a level this year that has already outstripped the whole of 2025, and RBC Capital Markets thinks the pace is unlikely to hold. Cumulative deal value in the first half of 2026 came to $78 billion, against $42 billion for the entirety of last year, according to the bank's half-year sector review.
Astrazeneca (AZN) closed the most recent trading day at $164.52, moving 2.59% from the previous trading session.
AstraZeneca is licensing Zegfrovy from Dizal in a deal worth up to $1.5B, expanding its lung cancer portfolio with a marketed EGFR therapy.
On July 27, AstraZeneca PLC will report its results for the second quarter of 2026. As a reminder, its revenue rose 12.5% year-over-year to $15.29 billion in Q1. Enhertu, one of the key growth drivers of AstraZeneca's oncology franchise, generated $831 million in revenue in Q1, up 39.4% YoY and 4.1% QoQ.
AstraZeneca PLC (LSE:AZN, NASDAQ:AZN) has agreed to pay $600 million upfront to secure worldwide rights to a lung cancer pill developed by China's Dizal Pharmaceutical. The Cambridge-based drugmaker could pay a further $900 million if the treatment hits certain development, regulatory and sales targets.
AstraZeneca entered into an exclusive global license agreement with China's Dizal Pharmaceutical for the lung cancer treatment.
AstraZeneca will pay Dizal Pharmaceutical $600 million upfront for global rights to one of its drugs for a type of lung cancer, the Chinese drugmaker said in a filing to the Shanghai stock exchange Tuesday.
Astrazeneca NYSE: AZN told investors and analysts that it is continuing to embed sustainability into its business strategy while updating some of its 2030 targets to reflect growth and lessons learned from existing programs.