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ALEX: Welcome to Beta Finch, your AI-powered earnings breakdown. Today we're digging into AbbVie's second quarter 2026 results, and this podcast is AI-generated content for educational and entertainment purposes only. Nothing we discuss should be considered investment advice. Always do your own research and consult a qualified financial advisor before making any investment decisions.
JORDAN: And Alex, this was another really strong quarter for AbbVie. Let's just get right into the numbers.
ALEX: Yeah, so adjusted EPS came in at $3.65, which beat guidance by six cents. Total revenue was nearly $17 billion, up 10.2% year over year, and that beat expectations by $300 million. On the back of that, they raised full-year revenue guidance to about $67.6 billion — that's the second raise this year, $600 million total.
JORDAN: What jumps out to me is the breadth of the growth. It's not just one drug carrying the load. SKYRIZI, RINVOQ, and the entire neuroscience portfolio all grew north of 20%. SKYRIZI alone did $5.5 billion in the quarter, up 24%. RINVOQ crossed $2.5 billion, up almost 24%.
ALEX: And that's the story that matters most for AbbVie long-term — how well they've replaced the HUMIRA revenue. Speaking of which, HUMIRA sales were down 36% due to biosimilar competition, but that's expected and honestly just noise at this point given how much SKYRIZI and RINVOQ have scaled up.
JORDAN: Right, HUMIRA is basically a rounding error now compared to where the immunology franchise is headed. Immunology overall did $8.8 billion, up nearly 15%.
ALEX: Let's talk strategy, because the big headline this quarter was the announced acquisition of Apogee Therapeutics. This adds assets in dermatology, respiratory, and other inflammatory diseases — basically deepening that immunology pipeline for the 2030s and beyond.
JORDAN: It's a dilutive deal in the near term — CFO Scott Reents said it's adding about 14 cents of dilution to full-year EPS guidance, which actually more than offset the underlying business over-performance in the updated guidance. But management framed it as setting up growth well past SKYRIZI and RINVOQ's patent cliffs.
ALEX: Which, by the way, got some clarity on this call too. SKYRIZI's composition patent expires in 2033, but CEO Rob Michael pointed out regulatory data protection runs through 2031, and they don't expect biosimilar filings until the end of the decade. So that runway is longer than some investors might assume.
JORDAN: The other big strategic thread was dermatology — RINVOQ picked up European approvals in vitiligo and alopecia areata, and management now sees combined peak sales for those two indications approaching $2 billion, which is well above what they'd previously guided.
ALEX: There was a great exchange in the Q&A about that too — an analyst pushed on how crowded the vitiligo landscape is getting with other mechanisms coming in. Jeff Stewart's response was basically: these immunology markets keep proving to be way more expansive than people expect once a real systemic treatment shows up, and RINVOQ has the head start plus a decade of safety data behind it.
JORDAN: I also want to flag the SKYRIZI subcutaneous induction story in Crohn's disease — that's got an FDA decision expected this fall. Jeff said they expect a "meaningful acceleration" in SKYRIZI's growth once that's approved, partly because it lets physicians avoid juggling two different reimbursement channels. Management expects that benefit to really show up in early 2027.
ALEX: On the pipeline side, there's a lot cooking beyond immunology too. Parkinson's is shaping up as a real growth story — tavapadone has an FDA decision expected in Q3, and Vyalev is on track for blockbuster status this year. Management still sees the Parkinson's franchise collectively hitting more than $5 billion in peak sales.
JORDAN: Oncology got some att
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