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With a market cap of $25.4 billion, IQVIA Holdings Inc. (IQV) provides clinical research services, commercial insights, and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries in the Americas and internationally. Based in Durham, North Carolina, the company operates through Technology & Analytics Solutions, Research & Development Solutions, and Contract Sales & Medical Solutions segments.
The company is expected to announce its Q1 results on Tuesday, May 6. Ahead of the event, analysts expect IQV to report a profit of $2.39 per share, up 3.9% from the year-ago quarter's profit of $2.30 per share. Moreover, the company has surpassed analysts' earnings estimates in each of the past four quarters. In the previous quarter, it reported EPS of $2.90, which surpassed the consensus estimate by 1.4%.