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BioNTech, which teamed with Pfizer to develop a powerful COVID-19 vaccine, reported that its earnings in the third quarter were close to half what they were a year earlier, but the German pharmaceutical company still raised its expectations for vaccine revenue after rolling out updated shots targeting omicron strains. The company said Monday that it made net profit of 1.8 billion euros (USD 1.8 billion) off revenue of 3.5 billion euros (USD 3.5 billion) in the three months to September, a drop from profit of 3.2 billion euros and revenue of 6.1 billion euros in the same period a year ago. BioNTech said the course of the pandemic remains dynamic and led to fluctuations" in earnings. Profit and revenue were largely flat in the first nine months of the year. Thanks to our strong execution in the third quarter of 2022, we updated our COVID-19 vaccine revenue guidance for the year 2022 to the upper end of the original range," said Jens Holstein, CFO of BioNTech. We started shipments of o
L&T Technology Services on Thursday reported an increase of 34.7 per cent in consolidated net profit to Rs 262 crore for the quarter ended March 2022. The company had posted a net profit of Rs 194.5 crore in the same period a year ago. "We achieved several milestones in FY22 a dollar revenue growth of 20 per cent in constant currency, record high operating margins, and more than three-fold increase in patents filed by our engineers. "Our growth was broad based with all five segments growing in double digits and showing an improvement in operating margins,'' L&T Technology Services (LTTS) CEO and Managing Director Amit Chadha said in a statement. The consolidated revenue from operations grew by about 22 per cent to Rs 1,756.1 crore from Rs 1,440.5 crore in the March 2021 quarter. "...In the fourth quarter, we won a USD 100 million plus deal in the EACV (electric autonomous connected vehicles) space - being chosen as the strategic engineering partner for a new age electric VTOL