The company, which is expected to be acquired by Merck & Co Inc
Excluding items, Schering-Plough earned 46 cents per share. Analysts, on average, expected 45 cents per share, according to Reuters Estimates.
Company sales totaled $4.65 billion, higher than the Reuters Estimates expectation of $4.61 billion.
Sales of Schering-Plough's cholesterol drugs Zetia and Vytorin fell 8 percent to $1.1 billion in a continuing downturn after data from two clinical trials questioned the effectiveness of the medicines. It sells the two drugs in a joint venture with Merck.
Sales of Remicade, a widely used treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, rose 2 percent to $565 million.
(Reporting by Ransdell Pierson; editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)