Henry Schein reports higher dental sales, lower income for Q3

Henry Schein has reported higher dental sales but lower net income for its fiscal third quarter of 2018.

For the quarter (end-September 29), the company reported a net income of $121.5 million, a decrease of 12% from $138 million in the third quarter of 2017.

Net sales were $3.28 billion, an increase of 3.8% from $3.161 billion in the same quarter last year. Dental sales increased 2.4% to $1.514 billion, compared with $1.479 billion from the same period of 2017.