CVS Caremark net revenues up 9.7%

WOONSOCKET, R.I. CVS Caremark released its financial results for first quarter 2009, reporting that net revenues jumped close to 10%.

Net revenues for the first quarter 2009 increased $2.1 billion to $23.4 billion, up from $21.3 billion during the first quarter 2008. Net earnings per share, however, decreased to $0.50 per share, compared with $0.51 during the year-ago period.

Revenues in the retail pharmacy segment increased 13.9% to $13.5 billion in the first quarter 2009. Same store sales (sales from stores open more than one year based on a comparable 90-day reporting period) increased 3.3% over the prior-year period. Pharmacy same store sales rose 4.6%, and were negatively impacted by approximately 310 basis points due to recent generic introductions, while front-end same store sales increased 0.7%. Same store sales for the first quarter 2009 were negatively impacted by a later Easter (April 12th this year versus March 23rd last year), which shifted more holiday sales into the second quarter of 2009.

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CVS Caremark operates 6,900 CVS/pharmacy and Longs Drugs stores; its Caremark Pharmacy Services division (pharmacy benefit management, mail order and specialty pharmacy); its retail-based health clinic subsidiary, MinuteClinic; and its online pharmacy, CVS.com.