By Matteo Castia

Smith & Nephew PLC said Thursday that third-quarter underlying revenue strongly recovered from the previous quarter's steep decline caused by the coronavirus pandemic, although it remained down year-on-year.

The FTSE-100 medical-technology group said quarterly underlying revenue, which strips out exceptional and other one-off items, fell 4.2% on the year, compared with 4% growth posted in the year-earlier period. This compares with a 29% underlying revenue fall in the second quarter.

At the beginning of this month, the company had guided for a 4% fall in underlying revenue for the third quarter, as its three franchises had been showing significant recovery during the period.

Revenue in the period fell 3.7% year-on-year to $1.2 billion.

Smith & Nephew said that growth in its Chinese and U.S. market has been offset by a continued hit from the pandemic in India and Latin America.

Write to Matteo Castia at matteo.castia@dowjones.com

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