Zoetis Inc. (NYSE:ZTS) Q4 2022 Earnings Call Transcript

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Kristin Peck: And our practice €“ just to build on that, our practice on that is that we do not include in our guidance or our budget if we’re expecting a late launch in the year. We’ve always done that as those have cover us for a while. So Librela is not in our current guidance that we provided. We will update the guidance once we have a better sense. And obviously, this is a big product and when it launches, it could have a big impact. So whether or not you have 1 month, 3 months, etcetera, 4 months, it makes a big difference. So we will update guidance once we have a better sense of that approval. So to clarify your second question, Librela is not in the guidance that we provided. We fully do expect to have it, but we will update our guidance once we have a better sense of what the exact timing is.

Wetteny Joseph: Yes. And we will give a better bracket in terms of what we expect the impact depending on the timing of the launch and what we see through the EEP program, etcetera.

Operator: Our next question comes from Louise Chen from Cantor.

Louise Chen: Hi, thanks for taking my questions, here. So I wanted to see if you could give more color on how you’re investing in supply to meet the growing demand for your products and when you actually expect to complete €“ or what your objectives here? Thank you.

Wetteny Joseph: Yes, I’ll take that. And see Kristin would add on anything. We are investing in a number of areas when it comes to our supply network, upload a couple of categories, I’d say, in the short €“ near-term, we have investments clearly in inventory to help absorb any shocks that come through the supply chain. We’re making investments in our demand planning processes and tools to give us better visibility etcetera as well as we don’t see that we are building in, in certain aspects of our inputs now coming into our manufacturing process. Longer term, as you may have listened on the prepared commentary, we’re making significant capital investments across our network across the network in the U.S. to support our monoclonal antibodies, both for products that have already been approved and are launching.

And what we have in our pipeline is well from a math perspective. It is a platform that we continue to innovate on. And then all solid dose as well, whether it’s parasiticides, derm session in various aspects. We are making investments throughout the network for those we’re making investments to support our vector vaccine manufacturing, for example, as well for livestock and so on. So we are making investments across the organization, investments in tech and digital to leverage data again, to give us better visibility as well for the long-term to support our long-term growth aspirations.

Kristin Peck: The only thing I would build on there, Louise, is I mean if you look at the CapEx number that Wetteny was talking about in his prepared remarks, of $950 million to $1 billion. That is clearly the highest CapEx that we have had. But I also think you should look also at what we said were about R&D. And if you look at significant new investments in R&D, those are going to be products that we are going to have to be able to manufacture in a few years. What you are seeing is the commensurate investment in our manufacturing capabilities to be able to launch those products and really critical platforms across the globe. So, we are very confident in where our pipeline is, and we are going to invest in our manufacturing capacity to deliver on those products over the medium to long-term.

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