{"id":1026961,"date":"2026-08-07T08:09:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T02:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026961"},"modified":"2026-08-07T08:59:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T03:29:02","slug":"merck-raises-2026-profit-guidance-beats-quarterly-estimates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/07\/merck-raises-2026-profit-guidance-beats-quarterly-estimates\/","title":{"rendered":"Merck raises 2026 profit guidance, beats quarterly estimates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRANKFURT: Germany&#8217;s Merck KGaA raised its \u200c2026 core \u2060profit guidance \u2060and beat quarterly expectations on Thursday, helped by continued strong demand for semiconductor materials and drug production supplies. <\/p>\n<p>The diversified family-controlled group said it expects adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) of \u200bbetween 5.9 billion euros and 6.3 billion euros ($6.8 billion-$7.3 billion) in 2026, up from previous guidance of between 5.7 billion euros and 6.1 billion euros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRANKFURT: Germany&#8217;s Merck KGaA raised its \u200c2026 core \u2060profit guidance \u2060and beat quarterly expectations on Thursday, helped by continued strong demand for semiconductor materials and drug production supplies. The diversified family-controlled group said it expects adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) of \u200bbetween 5.9 billion euros and 6.3 billion euros ($6.8 billion-$7.3 billion) in 2026, up from previous guidance of between 5.7 billion euros and 6.1 billion euros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026983,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026961\/revisions\/1026983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}