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01/31/13 4:59 AM

#496518 RE: Tuff-Stuff #496514

Red>AstraZeneca (AZN): Q4 EPS of $1.56 beats by $0.21. Revenues of $7.28B (-16% Y/Y) beat by $80M.

Profit excluding items -8% to $1.94B, with a patent cliff hurting earnings in Q4 and expected to continue to do so this year. As such, AstraZeneca warns of a "mid-to-high single digit percentage decline in revenue for 2013," (vs consensus of -3%) and that earnings will drop "significantly more than revenue" as operating costs rise.