(Reuters) – Drugstore chain Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc posted a loss on Thursday compared with profit a year earlier, due to a $1.5 billion charge from the its equity earnings in AmerisourceBergen.
Net loss attributable to Walgreens was $308 million, or 36 cents per share, in the first quarter ended Nov. 30, compared with earnings of $845 million, or 95 cents per share, a year earlier.
Revenue rose to $36.31 billion from $34.34 billion.
(Reporting by Mrinalika Roy and Dania Nadeem in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli)
