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caruso, the chief financial officer. that is coming up next, and this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ david: johnson & johnson reported first-quarter resultsarnings per first-quarter shares beating estimates. the stock is up a little over 1% in pre-trading. joining us is dominic caruso, johnson & johnson chief financial officer. dominic: good morning, david. david: you beat the estimates on both earnings-per-share and the revenue. what are you thinking about going forward? dominic: we were very pleased with our results, and across each sector of our business we beat assessments and sales, and strong earnings. we have increased our sales outlook for the year, given the strong performance. we maintained our earnings guidance, which is strong at 11% growth. we still plan to have a strong year in 2018. david: how much of that is driven off of pharma? dominic: that is right. pharma had another strong quarter. there was some concern at the end of first just of the first quarter that pharma might slow continuesthe business to perform very well at 50% growth in the first quarter, and we are confident it will -- 15% growth in the first quarter. dav